Funny to read this, never would have guessed it. I'd say you handled it quite well, especially given a tougher-than-usual situation: your age at the time, being a female in a game that's 95 percent male, plus the know-it-all nature of the audience. Not sure if you had a manager/agent helping to coordinate the media circus – my least favorite part of the PR profession – but again, you put a good face forward throughout all of it.

Anyway, good luck to you!

Also, now that I think about it, I wonder if Manny MUA and Jeffree Star faced similar challenges in the female-dominated field of beauty vlogging as women deal with in the male-heavy arena of poker? (I can envision some long-timer grousing, "I've been grinding GRWM vids since 2009, yet that luckbox James Charles comes in and gets a sponsorship deal after two months.")

EDIT: Annette, if you ever do a GRWM while blinded by Post-Its, let us know... would be a must-watch.

Annette_15,

At what point, you realized you had lost your passion in poker and wanted to move on? Just curious. I'm happy you found something else to fill your passion with.

Happy that you were able to transition into something you have passion for. Good luck, Annette.

Joe Ingram Podcast with Annette plz!!

Ill never forget getting banned for a week by stars for flipping in the 109r with annette. GL!

Is Annette still in makeup?

She is a legend and should not care what spotty kids on internett write. GG and GL with whatever you do in future Anette!

Nowadays a lot of online make up tutorial 'fame' is built predominantly through instagram. It used to be that instagram accounts were fed through YT fans, but it seems to have done a 180 now.

Gl Annette, hope it works out.

this one time you told me how much you love tomatoes on your sandwiches.

Youtube profit mostly comes from donations (esp. Patreon) nowadays. That said, it's still less than at poker, e.g. the biggest chess Youtuber with 400K subs only earns a thousand or a couple a month from donations.

Also, I think ASMR (soft-spoken / whispered) makeup tutorials are more profitable than non-ASMR ones ASMR viewership has become quite large lately. It's quite possible to get a few hundred K subs fast there with a proper 3D microphone and a soundproof room.

Anyway, GL with anything you end up doing on Youtube, Annette

8k subscribers in 10 months is really good going.

Best of luck with it.

There’s a lot more money in make up channels than regular YouTube channels, because you can get a lot of sponsorship/advertising revenue for promoting products on your channel.