Jessie Paege
Jessie Paege
Personal life
Jessie Paege is a native of New Jersey where she lives with her parents and her brother Matt. Her father and her grandparents are not well aware of social media and do not understand the kind of work she does. Her mother, on the other hand, helps her constantly on her projects and sometimes appears on her videos.
Rise to stardom
Jessie Paege was just 14 years old when she started her YouTube channel. A shy girl in school, she used to suffer from terrible social anxiety.
Being a YouTube fan-girl, she went to a Bethany Mota "Meet and Greet" where she learned that the famous YouTuber was also very shy initially and that YouTube helped her come out of her comfort zone.
She soon decided to give YouTube a try to see if she can make a difference in other people's lives from within her room, with the help of a camera. Interestingly, being in front of the camera, instead of being with people, made her more comfortable and she started to enjoy the fact that she can communicate with people without meeting them in person. Even though she had a slow start on YouTube, she has already gained over one million subscribers within 3 years.
Jessie Paege makes conscious efforts to make her content stand out on YouTube where a lot of people are posting videos on similar content.
She always tries to take common concepts and give them an original twist.
For instance, while YouTube is crowded with Do it yourself Clothes videos, she made videos on DIY Band Clothes, which is unique.
Apart from posting fashion, DIY, and band-inspired lifestyle videos, she often talks about topics that she can relate to.
As someone who considers herself to be awkward, she doesn't shy away from including her experiences in her videos in an attempt to make other people like her more comfortable about themselves.
Trivia
Once she had to bribe her brother with Pizza and game stuff to make him appear in her video.