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Natalie Tyler Tran is a video blogger on YouTube from Sydney, Australia, using the nickname communitychannel. She is a 2nd generation Vietnamese Australian. As of 29 May 2009, she has 156 videos available on her profile (not counting videos that may have been deleted) and is 17th most subscribed of all-time on YouTube and the 7th most subscribed Director. She is also the 55th Most watched person on Youtube. In addition, she was the first runner up in the Miss Youtube contest created by Michael Buckley of What the Buck.[1] Her first video was created on September 25, 2006.[1] Tran vlogs about her daily-life situations as a university student.|Tran’s YouTube channel is the most subscribed in Australia[2] and is widely watched internationally, with more than 285,067 subscribers[1] and over 106 million views in total.[3] This popularity has led to media coverage in The Sydney Morning Herald,[4][2] Western Australia Today,[5] B&T Magazine (March 2009),[6] Venus Zine,[7] Der Spiegel,[8] Báo Viêt Luận Online,[9] Việt Tribune,[10] VnExpress [11] and Triple J radio.[12] Her defence of Vegemite[13] in response to a YouTube video by Ben Going[14] was featured on the Australian television programme A Current Affair on February 2007, as part of the Vegemite wars segment.|Tran was one of the Australian YouTube celebrities invited to talk about the site at the launch of YouTube Australia, YouTube.com.au, in 2007.[15] She is presently enlisted by The Sydney Morning Herald as a contributor and “Real World Correspondent” to their technology vlog Digital Life [16], complementing main presenter and journalist Séamus Byrne. Although her original skits are specifically written and created for Digital Life, they are produced almost entirely in the same manner and style as her YouTube material. |
