‘I’m living a dream,’ YouTube star Liza Koshy says in Dubai
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From Vine and YouTube to acting and hosting, US star Liza Koshy admits she has to pinch herself when she considers her rise to fame.
Koshy was in Dubai over the weekend to speak at ON.DXB — an event in Dubai dedicated to film, gaming, music and video that ran until Nov. 23.
Koshy — who also enjoyed the emirate’s nightlife while she was in town, according to her Instagram Stories — took to the stage on Thursday to talk about her meteoric rise to fame.
“I’m living a dream that I didn’t even think of dreaming before,” the US social media icon revealed. Koshy, now an established star in her field, started her career in 2013 on Vine, a short-form video hosting service on which users shared six-second-long, looping video clips.
“Vine came out then I had a career all of a sudden out of nowhere,” she told the audience. “Vine was a giant group chat for me and my friends, so I only had my friends following me. I was creating videos for them. It was like six people at the time and that’s kind of what social media was back then.
“I had a really tiny circle with three friends and now it’s grown to like three something, something, something. It’s been a while, a wild journey. But that’s how it started. I was just making videos in my car, making videos in my bathroom, making videos in my living room; making my home essentially a set,” said the 23-year-old.
Now with more than 17.7 million subscribers on YouTube, Koshy has her own YouTube Originals show.
“Liza on Demand,” which premiered on June 27, 2018 on YouTube Premium, is an American comedy web TV series starring Koshy, “Orange is the New Black” actress
Kimiko Glenn, and TV actor Travis Coles. The cast follows Koshy who completes odd jobs around Los Angeles via a phone application.
The show’s second season premiered on Sept. 25 this year. “I pinch myself every moment because I’m living a dream that I didn’t even think of dreaming before,” Koshy added.
“You see actors growing up on these childhood TV shows and you don’t imagine ever creating your own ... and then to have the ability to do so in the palm of your hands... (to have it) literally be at your fingertips, that’s what it was for me.”