Meet Bethany Mota, 18, Who is Making Millions Just From Posting her Shopping Videos on YouTube

Meet Bethany Mota, 18, who is better known as the teen with more online followers than Lady Gaga. She is making millions just from posting her shopping videos on YouTube.

Bethany Mota is considered a mogui in the making whose personal videos are on the road to becoming a fashion empire. She currently has her own branded fashion line at teen-centric mall staple Aeropostale, and more people follow her shopping ‘haul’ channel on YouTube than Lady Gaga and has more Instagram followers than Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, Glamour, and Cosmo combined.

The Northern California teen is turning a hobby she started at 14 into a million dollar phenomenon before she’s even moved out of her parents house and it’s all thanks to YouTube.

‘Hi. I’m Bethany. I’m a Youtuber,’ she writes on one of her many social media accounts. ‘My viewers are my besties and I love them bunches!’

And those followers love her back–all five million of them.

Bethany is the queen bee of a craze called ‘haul videos’ on YouTube and they’re exactly what they sound like they are.

It’s where girls record a play-by-play of their shopping mall ‘hauls’ and then post them for the teenaged world to see on YouTube.

The teen’s Instagram account, where she posts photos of herself, her clothes and her meticulously decorated bedroom when she isn’t making YouTube videos watched by the hundreds of thousands, has over 2 million followers–more than Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, Glamour, and Cosmo combined. 

Nearly five million people follow her YouTube channel.

The casualwear chain Aeropostale is hoping that teen girls across America who don’t already know her name will soon be wearing t-shirts and backless sweaters that bear the ‘Motavator’ label.

According to Business Insider, Mota began her march toward teen fashion domination after coming up against school bullying.

‘I didn’t want to talk to anyone. I didn’t want to leave my house,’ she said, and that she turned to YouTube as a ‘kind of an outlet for me to be myself.’

Despite her growing success, Mota is still largely an online celebrity as opposed to a red-carpet walking source of magazine gossip.

Which means you won’t be catching the teen in a tabloid any time soon. In fact, you’re more likely to catch her hanging out alone in her childhood room watching fellow YouTube stars.

‘Whenever I have free time I love to just lay in my bed and watch YouTube videos, watch movies,’ she told Business Insider. ‘Just basically do nothing.’

The Aeropostale gig isn’t even her first partnership. The bubbly teen has worked with JC Penney and Forever 21 in the past.

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