Life With MaK

About

Life With MaK or Makenna Kelly is a teenage YouTuber who gained much notoriety online by releasing autonomous sensory meridian response videos.

Online History

On March 28th, 2018, Life With MaK^[1] uploaded her first video titled "Stepdad Does My Makeup Tutorial Voiceover" (shown below). Within four months, the video gained upwards of 53,000 views.

On April 7th, Mak uploaded her first ASMR video, ASMR ~ Ramen Mukbang | No Talking, in which she films herself eating ramen (shown below, left). Within four months, the video gathered more than 58,000 views and 640 likes. On April 17th, Mak uploaded an ASMR spa role play video that accumulated upwards of 942,000 views and 11,000 likes within four months (shown below, right).

On June 3rd, Mak uploaded an ASMR video in which she is shown eating a raw honeycomb. As of August 2018, the video is her most popular to date with more than 5.2 million views and 70,000 likes. The video has since been taken down. On June 9th, she uploaded a video of herself eating boba that gained over 1.9 million views within two months (shown below, right).

As of August 2018, the Life With MaK channel has upwards of 28 million video views and 290,000 subscribers.

Social Media Presence

On June 23rd, 2018, MaK created the LifeWithMak2005^[2] Instagram account. Her first post has received 1,700 likes and she has gained 36,500 followers within the first three months of joining.

On August 11th, MaK uploaded a video to YouTube regarding the Twitter account that impersonated her. The video has since been deleted. In the video she states that MaK stands for "meaning, acceptance, and kindness."

Personal Life

Mak keeps most of her personal life private but she uploaded a Q & A video to YouTube where she revealed her age and personal interests when she hit 100,000 subscribers on June 26th (shown below).

Mak sells custom videos as a part-time job. In the description of most of her videos, she states:

"Making custom videos is a part-time summer job for me… I absolutely love doing them but they are not free. My brother and I both work over the summer to save for a car, college, and our own spending money (tough parents!). Doing custom vids is my job choice over paper routes, babysitting, dog walking, etc. There is no difference between a regular video and a custom video other than they are purchased/dedicated to someone special with custom triggers or themes."

Reaction Memes

On August 8th, 2018, Twitter users began turning clips of Mak's honeycomb video into two separate reaction memes. For example, Twitter user @the_myleg_fish posted a video of Mak drinking seltzer and then taping the can with the caption "Judas taking a sip of wine before betraying Jesus" (shown below). The tweet was retweeted 65,770 times and has 208,502 likes.

Judas taking a sip of wine before betraying jesus:pic.twitter.com/hYcGRqLIBI

— goofy string cheese lookin bitch (@the_myleg_fish) August 10, 2018

On August 9th, Twitter user @fagtwigs posted a clip of Mak chewing on honeycomb with the caption: "Me on my lunch break watching my coworkers struggle because it got busy" (shown below). The tweet was retweeted 51,522 times and has 116,149 likes.

Me on my lunch break watching my coworkers struggle because it got busy pic.twitter.com/WypvWwaFb9

— abolish_ice@gmail (@fagtwigs) August 10, 2018

Quitting YouTube

On April 17th, 2019, Makenna Kelly^[3] tweeted, "YouTube- Why do you pick and choose? Why DISCRIMINATE? 'We are disabling comments to protect ALL minors'… except for Danielle Cohn, Bhad Bhabie, and others we choose to 'protect'. Eating honeycomb? For Life With MaK it’s 'inappropriate'. But other minors/toddlers? Go ahead! 🙄" (shown below). The tweet followed addressed he most popular video being taken down. The tweet gained over 260 likes in two months. On June 5th, she^[4] tweeted "AGAIN, thanks @YouTube! This is getting REALLY OLD. To my fans: what platform would you like to see me on? TWITCH? PATREON? OTHER? In the meantime please enjoy other MINORS trying on lingerie for their boyfriends, wiping Nutella (aka feces) on friends, etc. RETWEET 4 A FOLLOW!" (shown below, right). 12 Life With MaK videos had been taken down in two months due to YouTube's new policies regarding minors. Her tweet, which addresses other underage YouTubers who aren't being taken down, gained over 600 likes and 100 retweets in five days.

The next day, Kelly^[5] tweeted about possibly streaming on Twitch (shown below, left). The tweet gained over 300 likes in four days. On June 9th, Kelly^[6] pinned a tweet saying, Dear @YouTube: Your blatant discrimination will not stop me. I will not let you use me as a target for your platform’s shortcomings. I am not sorry for being a confident young woman who speaks her mind. You condoned a grown man to sexually bully me and it’s time to own up to it" (shown below, right). The tweet accumulated over 119,400 likes and 24,900 retweets in a day.

Search Interest

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