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Student Spotlight

By MADDI KNEPP

Central Mountain

This month’s student spotlight goes to Ashley Garbrick, a sophomore at Central Mountain High School. I chose her for this month because she’s taking on a task not many people chose to do. She’s starting her own YouTube channel.

Garbrick decided that she wanted to start around the beginning of March and posted her first video on April 14. She decided to start her channel because she said, “I’ve been watching YouTube for years and always wanted to do it… just never thought I would be able to.” Garbrick has been looking up to influencers and creators for years.

When you make a YouTube channel, you most likely have a theme that you like to stick by. For Garbrick, she’s looking more towards making lifestyle/beauty videos, and also throws in some funny challenges here and there. She said there might be a possibility of her changing her style or narrowing it down to one in the future.

You may or may not have known this, but you can start making a profit out of your videos once you reach 10,000 subscribers. Which means, once 10,000 people subscribe, or you can think of it like someone following you on Instagram for example, that’s when you can start making money. Garbrick says, “I’m not really interested in that, I mean it would be awesome, but that’s not why I’m making videos.” She loves the concept of making the videos and editing them.

You may be wondering, how does someone have enough time to make videos and edit them? Well Garbrick plans on going cyber next year to be able to have more time and focus on YouTube so she can put her best efforts into it. The thought of starting her own channel made her a little anxious and nervous, but now that she started she’s very happy and it has boosted her confidence level.

If you are every bored and need something to do, then click on over to YouTube and look up her channel under Ashley Garbrick and give her some support. Her videos are very entertaining and you won’t regret it.

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