While Christina Villegas is eating fried cheese pickles in her youtube video How I “Glew Up”, she looks like a sweet and smart young woman.
She could easily be your nice neighbor or friendly girl from the student dorm, who lends you her dress or helping you face life struggles. Because she seems so authentic and approachable, you would never guess she is a YouTuber with 1,56M subscribers and an Instagramer with almost half of a million followers. At the moment of writing, the number of her fans is growing daily.
Christina Villegas is a 21 years old content creator based in Chicago who shares her life with millions of supporters. She is also known as an honest and humble influencer with a clean and supportive comment section under her videos that is kind of rare in this era. Being crowned as a “real one” means that she is transparent and open with viewers on her channel.
Plastic operations are nowadays commonly used treatments, but most influencers are hiding the obvious truth and denying going under the knife. Cristina, for a change, openly talks about surgeries and treatments she had or planning to do in the future.
YouTube is saturated with a million creators who have diverse, unique, or bizarre methods of interacting with their audience. Starting videos with unnatural intros, screaming, and fake excitement as somebody points in them with the gun and whispers: “Act crazy-excited or I will crash your camera and broke your YouTube play button!”
Using clickbait titles and recording videos about everything else, then what title is promising is one of the most common methods used by creators. After witnessing forced and cringe attempts of YouTubers selling the product they never hold in their hands before or promoting the game we all know they never play — Cristina Villegas is a breeze of fresh air we all needed.
The things that made this young entrepreneur unique is her sympathetic personality and her career as an erotic dancer/stripper in a club somewhere in Chicago.
The year 2020 could also be called The raise of the strippers. When Cardi B transformed from an ex-stripper to a famous rapper, the whole world finally noticed the working ladies who got their spotlight in the public eye.
Numerous strippers would twist their bodies in the music videos of well-known rapers for years. Hiring an exotic dancer is often a part of bachelor’s or bachelorette parties and birthday presents. They have been dancing around us for ages, but it seems as they always have been left out.
Strippers are like a mysterious cult or elites — we want to open their box of secrets. We want to know about their life, struggles, how much money they make, and who they are after work.
The most viewed video on Christina's youtube channel is the Day in the life of a stripper, which has more than 13 M views! These numbers are proof that society wants a piece of their life, when they rest on the sofa, eating icecream and with zero interest in becoming a dancer.
The new and popular stripper-life niche inspired women around the world to start sharing their work experiences on social media.
So what makes Cristina stood up in this fast-growing industry? What is the golden key to becoming a successful youtube with millions of views and followers?
Personality
Her unique personality is her strongest weapon that attracts millions of subscribers from around the globe. She is the perfect mix of sweet, honest, and independent woman, who works hard to achieve her dreams.
Down-to-earth
Her supporters are increasing daily, but if you watch her first video from the year 2016 named room tour, you wouldn’t notice the difference in her performance. Four years later, she drives a Porche and owns a business, but Cristina remains the same humble and sweet girl.
Brutally honest
Her transparent videos about plastic operations and lifestyle are the reason that people keep coming back to her channel. Cristina is open and honest about her stripper life and the surgeries, or how much money she made.
Recently she openly talked about her crooked nose job and a doctor, who offered her a total refund for surgery in exchange for her silence. Cristina refused the offer and lost $8000 because she preferred to share the bitter experience with her supporters.
Lifting and inspiring others
She is creating a positive platform to boost others and share her experience to inform and educate her subscribers.
So what can we learn from this young entrepreneur who usually earns between 12.000 to 17.000 monthly only from YouTube?
Go for it
Cristina proved that anyone could make it if they are willing to put hard work into their dreams and transform it into reality. She started youtube with zero expectations, recording the videos with a phone camera and simple editing skills. Her main goal was to educate and change public opinion about strippers and the industry.
Several income streams
Like most entrepreneurs, Cristina doesn’t rely on only one source of income, and she is earning her money from multiple sources:
Stripping Youtube Sponsorship Clothing merch Shuper Cute Clothing brand TinaDancewear
Before Cristina became successful on youtube, her income was mostly made in the club. Later, when she got the recognition and views, her earnings from youtube increased, and now she is making more money by creating videos than with dancing. She also earns by promoting products or services on her social platforms. Her merch Shuper cute (which was really super cute) was sold out three times. Cristina is also an owner of the clothing company names TinaV Dancewear, where she is selling dancing clothes and accessories.
Connect with others
What Cristina does, when she wants to record and create content about the topic she is unfamiliar with? She invites different guests in the videos, who answers her questions and also share their experiences. With hosting guests on her channel she builds a diverse platform for viewers and also avoids spreading false knowledge.
Hard work
Cristina wanted to get her butt implants for years, and she was literally working her ass off for two years in Mcdonald's, saving the money for the operation. No matter if your dreams are to get plastic surgery, dream job, or owning your business, you need to have a plan and work hard for it.
Stay humble
Cristina Villegas is standing out in the world of content creators, as does actor Keanu Reeves among celebrities. They are both pure and simple, and I presume this is the way to get in people’s hearts, plus a part of their success.
What we can learn from Cristina’s inspiring journey is that being authentic, finding your niche, and loving what you do will take you a long way.
There is no sure path to success, but the surest path to failure is trying to please everyone. — Tim Ferriss
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