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YouTube is no longer just entertainment for schoolchildren, but a real political tool: even oppositionist Alexei Navalny and oligarch Alisher Usmanov have become video bloggers in recent months. At the same time, it is not they who are gaining millions of views, but young people playing video games, performing stand-up and making videos on how to apply cosmetics correctly. The first place in the top 100 of Russian YouTube is occupied by “EeOneGuy” (Ivangai) - the channel of 21-year-old video blogger Ivan Rudsky, who has already collected more than 11.6 million subscribers with videos about his life and earned money to move to Los Angeles! For those who don’t scour YouTube, we have prepared a selection of 11 video bloggers, whose names today are already embarrassing not to know.

If you don't understand any words, there is a dictionary at the end.

Ivangai

Who is: Ivan Rudskoy is a Ukrainian and Russian let's player and video blogger. Now lives in Los Angeles.

He makes lifestyle blogs: he sings in videos, plays computer games, does something for a bet, answers questions from subscribers, records parodies. According to media reports, the main audience of the channel is teenage girls.

Ivan Rudsky's VKontakte page

Number of subscribers: 11.6 million people.

What he became famous for: played Minecraft, reviewed games, recorded the track “The Nerd’s Song.”

Most popular video: #Do it your way— 30.5 million views.

Political position: in April 2017, Life.ru accused Ivangay of actively posting “anti-Russian pictures” on social networks three years ago, and subsequently erased the entries.

In August 2016, he surpassed Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in the number of subscribers on VKontakte, commenting on this event with the post: “There is no second place, but you are hanging in there. All the best to you, good mood and health.”

Quote:“Hayu-hai, Ivangai is with you!”


Max +100500

Who is: Maxim Golopolosov is a 27-year-old video blogger, author and host of the show “+100500”, which airs on the AdamThomasMoran channel.

Max Golopolosov's VKontakte page

Number of subscribers:“AdamThomasMoran” - 8.2 million people, fifth place in the top YouTube among Russian-language channels. Max also has a personal channel "MoranDays"(1.1 million subscribers), where he mainly talks about travel.

What he became famous for: Max is a real “dinosaur” of YouTube. He was one of the first in Russia to start making video reviews. For many years now (since 2010), once a week Max has been making selections of the funniest, most ridiculous and interesting videos. His show is the Russian version of Ray William Johnson's show “Equals Three” (“=3”). Just a few months after the first release, Max gained popularity.

Main features: The show is filmed against a leopard print backdrop. This, the only thing that Max and his friends came across when creating the first videos, eventually became the signature feature of the program.

Max shows different videos and then peppers them with his ironic comments. There is a lot of swearing in the releases.

Most popular video: Episodes of the show consistently receive millions of views. The most popular of them called “Loch!..! (person of non-traditional sexual orientation)" released 6 years ago, to date it has been watched by more than 12 million people. The issue included, in particular, a funny interview that gave rise to several memes, including: “Bom-bom, got it, no?”, “No, well, you’re an Indian.”

Political position: Max noted that he tries to stay away from politics. At the same time, the show contains videos on political topics. For example, in one of them, Max ridiculed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who found it difficult to give an interview and answer a simple question.


Katya Klap

Who is: Katya Klap (in the world Ekaterina Trofimova, 24 years old) is the “grandmother” of Russian YouTube. Your first channel "FoggyDisaster" started it back in 2008. On it, Katya posts comedy sketches, musical parodies of show business stars, reviews of films and books.

She launched her second YouTube channel, TheKateClapp, in 2010. Here Klap shares with his subscribers videos about travel, everyday life, cosmetics, food, cats and “girl problems” (how to deal with acne and build love with a guy), and also answers questions.

Katya Klap's VKontakte page

Number of subscribers: the FoggyDisaster channel has 1.6 million subscribers, and the TheKateClapp channel has more than 5.5 million.

What she became famous for: Um, it's hard to say. She says that Jesus himself motivates her to make videos.

Most of all, Katya’s subscribers love her sketch show “Challenge Accepted.” The essence of the show is that Clap fulfills the requests of his subscribers (sometimes very strange). For example, Katya Klap can eat a few hot peppers or a couple of lemons in front of the camera, apply makeup without a mirror, or wrap herself in a carpet.

Main features: Clap's videos always have a lot of pink, glitter, toys, cute girly trinkets and just tons of cosmetics (pink eye shadow, pink blush, pink lipstick).

Most popular video: Katya Klap's most popular video is about how she gets ready in the morning: waking up, eating breakfast, putting on makeup. That's all. The video “My Morning” has already been watched by 8.1 million people.

Quote:“Stay positive and creative, all the best to you!”


Sasha Spielberg

Who is: Sasha Spielberg (Alexandra Balkovskaya, 20 years old) - video blogger, singer, gamer. Spielberg started her YouTube channel in May 2010, when she was only 13 years old. I shot my first videos on English- these were video greetings for her friends from Cyprus.

According to unconfirmed information, Sasha Spielberg’s father is Alexander Balkovsky, co-owner of the Z-Agency studio (a division of Timur Bekmambetov’s film company Bazelevs, which deals with advertising and promotion in social networks and YouTube). On Russian YouTube, there is an opinion that Sasha Spielberg is not a “blogger of the people”, but simply a successfully made social project her father, whose business is affiliated with the government. Hardcore YouTubers are sure that Spielberg’s subscribers are fake, because many of her videos receive more dislikes than likes.

Now Sasha Spielberg is filming and posting videos on her channel about how she plays the Sims for hours, discusses where she gets so many strange cosmetics from, shares her dreams, and also publishes her videos.

Speaking of dreams: two months ago Sasha posted one of the most talked about videos - bathing in a bathtub with chips. In the video, Spielberg admits that it was her dream to bathe in her favorite chips.

Sasha Spielberg's VKontakte page

Number of subscribers: 4.9 million people.

What she became famous for: Sasha Spielberg began to be recognized not only by teenage girls after the video blogger began dating politicians and spoke in the State Duma.

Political position: In March, Sasha Spielberg took part in a meeting of YouTubers dedicated to the issues of popularizing education and culture among young people. The meeting was organized by Russian Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky. With him in April, Sasha Spielberg wrote a mi-mi-mi-blog, where she asked the minister about her first kiss and, at the same time, actively supported the projects of the Ministry of Culture.

On May 22, Sasha Spielberg made a triumphant speech from the State Duma rostrum. Many bloggers on YouTube, journalists and ordinary viewers criticized the girl and even accused her of hypocrisy. Thus, Sasha Spielberg stated that she has been “transparent since she was 13 years old” and actively communicates with her subscribers, which is what she recommended to the people’s representatives. It’s just that on Sasha Spielberg’s YouTube channel all comments are closed, as well as on her other social networks.

Most popular video: video in a duet with the famous DJ Leonid Rudenko “Melt the Ice”. The clip was watched by 11.9 million people.

Quote:“I am not a supporter of extremes... rallies over the fact that someone is wearing yellow sneakers” (about the FBK investigative film by Alexei Navalny “He’s Not Dimon to You”).


Nikolay Sobolev

Who is: 23-year-old Nikolai Sobolev is one of the authors and founders of the prank project “Rakamakafo Pranks”, as well as the host of the channel “SOBOLEV” (“Life YouTube”).

Ivangay (in one of the last videos Nikolai Sobolev stated that Ivangay is a drug addict. However, in the next video Sobolev said that he was wrong and apologized to the gamer).

Most popular video: on the channel “Rakamakafo” - video "Fight with a girl"(11 million views). In the author’s blog “SOBOLEV” there is a video about “Blue Whales” (9 million).

Main features: Nikolai Sobolev is an intelligent, handsome YouTube guy who records all his videos against a brick wall in fashionable jackets and with perfect hair.

Quote:“My secret is that I simply have an unbreakable belief in myself, and no one has ever been able to prove to me that I can’t do something. I am Nikolai Sobolev. And I can do anything!”


Yuri Khovansky

Who is: 27-year-old video blogger, the first stand-up comedian on the RuNet, one of the judges of Versus Battle, an aspiring rapper.

Yuri Khovansky's VKontakte page

Number of subscribers: 2.8 million people.

What he became famous for: Initially, his stand-up show “Russian Stand-up” was not very popular, but with the support of video blogger Ilya Maddison and thanks to a huge number of conflicts, Khovansky gradually acquired an audience of millions.

Khovansky is one of the most scandalous bloggers on the Runet. He publicly insulted Viktor Tsoi and Pot. In 2014, after a spat on Twitter, he called out Black Star Inc label member Christina Si on Versus. Instead of a battle, the girl recorded a video “Yurik”, which received almost 5.8 million views, with the message “You went against the Armenians in vain.” Later, Khovansky said that Christina “set” the “Armenian mafia” on him - two guys beat him up in the front door.

In addition to the scandal with Christina Si, Khovansky has a protracted conflict with Noize MC. The performer did not react to this for a long time, but during Versus Main Event 2, which took place on the roof of a high-rise building in St. Petersburg, Noize approached and hit the comedian in the face. Khovansky tried to answer, but they were quickly separated. This did not stop Yura, he continues to dedicate video clips to Noize MC.

Khovansky has a serious conflict with video blogger Dmitry Larin. After a series of mutual insults, the climax of their showdown was battle lisping Khovansky with burry Larin at the Versus site. The video unexpectedly became the second most popular during the entire existence of the project (currently the number of video views is 31.3 million). Khovansky emerged victorious from the fight: all three judges gave him the championship.

Main features: Khovansky is a well-known lover of beer and alcohol in general (he drinks in almost all videos, he even hosts a show about cocktails, Russian Drink Time).

Most popular video: the release of Versus appeared on the Internet in March 2016, and already in October Khovansky imagined himself to be a real rapper and, in the wake of the hype, recorded a video "Dad is in the building" with 27.8 million views. This is currently the most popular video on his channel.

In November, Yura made a diss track against Noize MC "Noise"(almost 14.2 million more views). This caused a negative reaction from the popular rapper Oxxxymiron: who had previously been on friendly terms with Khovansky, Miron wrote on Twitter that Yura “played too much” and “a blogger, in principle, cannot present anything to a creator (even a weak one) on his own field.” Yura also benefited from this situation - he shot an ironic video "Forgive me, Oksimiron"- almost 25.9 million views.

Two more of Khovansky’s videos have about 14 million views. This is a parody of the song “The Ice Is Melting” - “And Khovansky drinks beer” and a joint video with Dmitry Malikov “Ask Your Mom”.

Political position: Khovansky noted that one cannot be apolitical to everything that happens, while creative person It is very difficult, when speaking out, not to be accused of “excessive opposition or, on the contrary, Putinism.” “I don’t understand how people have so much time to look for political subtext in any nonsense,” said the video blogger.

At the same time, he has a comic song about Putin with the words “Putin is the start of censorship on the Internet, Putin is the best thing on the planet.”

In June 2014, Khovansky was the author of a petition to the Ministry of Health demanding that Russian State Duma deputy Elena Mizulina be checked for mental health because of her “absurd bills,” including statements from the cycle “to ban absolutely everything on the Internet.” In a short time, the petition received more than 116 thousand signatures.

Quote:"I'll be a gangster!"


Eldar Dzharakhov

Who is: 22-year-old video blogger, musician.

Dzharakhov publishes lifestyle blogs, records sketches, shoots video clips as part of the “Successful Group” and the “Click-Clack” team with Ilyich (Little big). A month ago I participated in Versus BPM with another video blogger - Dmitry Larin (the third most popular battle in the history of Versus - 19.3 million views). The victory was not awarded to anyone (but, in our humble opinion, Dzharakhov won - Larin constantly forgot the words, missed the beats and eventually gave birth to a new meme about 2015).

Eldar Dzharakhov's VKontakte page

Number of subscribers: about 1.8 million people (another 2.2 million people are channel subscribers "Successful group", which included Dzharakhov and his friend Alexander Smirnov - Sasha Tilex).

What he became famous for: The first success came to Dzharakhov and Tileks in 2012, when they recorded the anthem of the popular public “MDK” (more than 6 million views on YouTube) and the community began to support young performers.

Political position: on Twitter in March, Dzharakhov advised subscribers to show their parents “a film about Dimon” if they had not already seen it. He called Navalny’s election campaign... (awesome), noting that it was “interesting to watch.” He expressed surprise that the media were silent about the rallies that took place in the country on March 26.

Eldar Dzharakhov was associated with the reason for the removal of the video “Hitler 1945/Navalny 2018 - We can repeat it!” from YouTube. His representative denied Eldar’s connection with the creation and deletion of the video.


Druzhko Show

Who is: 48-year-old Sergei Druzhko made a bomb comeback. Do you remember his imperishable program on TNT “Inexplicable, but true”, where Druzhko with a poker face talked about UFOs and the humanoid Alyoshenka? In April 2017, Sergey Druzhko became the host on the YouTube channel Druzhko Show (the production of which is indirectly supported by Life). In the show, Druzhko actually parodies himself. He speaks deliberately seriously about frivolous and sometimes stupid trends on the Internet. Sergei Druzhko is looking for mysticism and universal conspiracy everywhere and closely monitors fluctuations on the memes exchange.

Sergei Druzhko's VKontakte page

Number of subscribers: In just one month of existence, more than 2.5 million people have subscribed to this channel! Bloggers from Russian YouTube have been gathering such an audience for years.

Main features: charisma! And some mystical music in the background.

Most popular video: the first episode of the Druzhko Show - 13.4 million people.

Quotes (turned memes):“Easy”, “Sergey Druzhko is with you. Let's hype a little?", "Strong statement. Of course, I won’t check it.”


Larin

Who is: Dmitry Larin (according to some sources, Utkin) is a video blogger, author of the show “Larin Against”, the video chat “Night on Earth”, “What to Read”, “Larin Walks” and others.

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Number of subscribers: just over 2 million people.

What he became famous for: criticism of other video bloggers. His first surge in popularity came from a video about Andrei Nefedov.

Larin gained real fame after a conflict with video blogger Yuri Khovansky. Larin also competed against Eldar Dzharakhov (with Khovansky and Dzharakhov there were Versus battles with millions of views) and Nikolai Sobolev (the latter even recorded a video challenging Larin to a battle, but Dmitry refused).

Main features: burr, the image of an intellectual, bile and cynicism, classic suits.

Most popular video:#LARINPOTIV - Yuri Khovansky's video challenge on Versus, received more than 19 million views.

Political position: called the cult of Victory in the Great Patriotic War “terrible.” He stated that he supported the accusations in the situation with the case of blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky. “The law is the law, whatever it may be,” noted Larin.

At the end of May 2017, in one of his streams he refused to talk about the authorities and Alexei Navalny. “I don’t care about politics,” Larin said. He does not consider it right to “instill a subjective opinion regarding such large-scale processes,” since many people listen to him.

Quote:“I despise you, scum.”


Khach's Diary

Who is: 31-year-old Amiran Sardarov is, according to some sources, a Yazidi Kurd by nationality. He is very proud of his origins. Sardarov does not have a school certificate - he completed only three grades of primary school.

In June 2015, he created a channel where he began to tell subscribers about his life together with best friends T-Killah (singer Alexander Tarasov) and Oleg Miami.

Sardarov, Tarasov and Miami film their dialogues, reviews of new sports cars, interviews with successful businessmen and media managers. In the “Diary of a Vacationer” section, Tarasov and Miami talk about travel. At the same time, Sardarov has been unable to obtain Russian citizenship for several years and has never been abroad.

Amiran Sardarov often holds charity events, helps children with incurable diseases, gives them gifts, organizes holidays, concerts or races for them in evening Moscow.

Amiran Sardarov's VKontakte page

Number of subscribers: 2 million people.

Main features: Amiran Sardarov wears exclusively black and white T-shirts of the same model, drives a blue BMW i8, dates only girls of model appearance, and denies love.

Amiran Sardarov's laughter is like the cry of a wounded seagull. It's so funny that the blogger created another channel in 2015 "Chaika Warehouse", where he uploads backstage from video filming for the main channel.

Amiran Sardarov launched a #daihachu flash mob some time ago, attracting famous people for interviews. The founder of the media holding NewsMedia (Life) Aram Gabrelyanov and the head of Tinkoff Bank Oleg Tinkov have already given the idea.

Most popular video: Amiran and T-Killah’s video “It’s normal” - 17.5 million views.


BadComedian

Who is: Evgeny Bazhenov is a 26-year-old video blogger, film critic, and stand-up comedian. He created the YouTube channel in 2011. Bazhenov shows reviews of domestic and (much less often) foreign films. The tone of all BadComedian reviews is critical. Most often, the blogger unleashes a barrage of criticism on comedies directed by Zhora Kryzhovnikov and films starring actor and bodybuilder Alexander Nevsky.

It’s safe to say that BadComedian is now the main film critic of Russian YouTube.

Evgeniy Bazhenov’s VKontakte page

Number of subscribers: 1.9 million people.

What he became famous for: openly speaks his opinion about Russian films. Not everyone liked such frankness. Thus, actor-bodybuilder Alexander Nevsky called BadComedian a hater, and Mikhail Galustyan said that Bazhenov’s criticism is “unconstructive.” True, there are those who liked BadComedian’s criticism - rapper Basta and singer Alexei Vorobyov.

Main features: BadComedian takes a very detailed approach to the study of all films. In his own words, he watches each film at least three times to notice all the details.

Most popular video: BadComedian's review of the film "Hack the Bloggers" - more than 5.7 million views.

Ruslan Sokolovsky

Another popular blogger of recent times has become Ruslan Sokolovsky. He was not among the top ten popular bloggers (he now has 384 thousand subscribers on his personal channel), but after his arrest and criminal prosecution he became one of the most famous video bloggers in the country.

Now Ruslan Sokolovsky publishes videos on the channel. The first episode of the new blog was viewed by 1.3 million people.


Don’t forget to watch the next episode of “Sokolovsky on the Site” today at 19.00 Moscow time.

Dictionary:

Video blogger- a person who shoots a video and posts it on the Internet.

Let's play is a trend in the video game world where players post and comment on their gameplay.

Minecraft- computer game.

Stand up is a genre of comedy in which one comedian performs in front of an audience, usually speaking directly to the audience.

Versus Battle- Russian Internet show in the genre of rap battles.

Versus BPM— format of fights on musical beats and without judges.

Runet- some Internet sites with main content in Russian.

Battle- competition in any creative direction.

Hate, hate, hater- hatred, hate, hater.

Diss is a track whose purpose is to show disrespect to someone.

Public- an abbreviated name for the term “public page”.

MDK is one of the popular humorous communities on the VKontakte social network, with more than 8 million subscribers.

Stream— live broadcast on YouTube and other video hosting sites.

Hype, hype- hype; one who strives in every way to create a stir around himself.

Backstage- what is left behind the scenes.

Comeback- return.

Pokerface- a stone face that does not express emotions.

Memes, memes- pictures or phrases that ironically or sarcasticly describe a situation.



2. The Cablook by Daria Kamalova
Our compatriot Daria went to Italy and from there she runs a very cheerful and beautiful blog. Reading Dasha is also a pleasure, but photographs are a separate matter. Firstly, Dasha is very beautiful, and it’s always nice to look at beauties :) Secondly, her smile charges even through the monitor. And thirdly, the quality of the photographs is simply amazing!





3. Sonya Karamazova
I repeat that it is always pleasant to look at luxurious girls, and when high-quality equipment and an interesting style of clothing are added to beauty, you get a good blog-cocktail that fulfills its mission: to bring beauty to the world.





4. Karlas Closet
Oh, Carla Deras has her own unique vision of style and photography. Sometimes it seems to me that she even moves, probably in a special way. She has amazing plasticity. The aesthetic of 90s photo shoots comes through in many of her photographs. They are so unique that they cannot be confused with anything else. And I'm sure that pictures from her blog could easily be published in magazines like Interview or W magazine.

After the world's largest video hosting YouTube gave its users the opportunity to earn money from content, the word “video blogging” quickly spread throughout the world. Thus, many people managed to get rich and become famous in a short time. An ordinary interest grew into everyday work with a huge budget, popularity and brand.

Today's selection includes the 12 most popular YouTube bloggers who have the largest number of subscribers today.

1: Ivangai

Ivangay (Ivan Romanovich Rudskoy) is the most popular YouTube blogger. Registered his channel with the name EeOneGuy on YouTube on March 19, 2013. In 2015, he took part in the filming of YouTube Rewind, advertising company Lenovo and the Videofan festival, became the winner of the “Like 2015” award held as part of the “Vidfest” festival in the “Like for Lifestyle” category. According to VSP Stats for April 2016, EeOneGuy's estimated monthly income was approximately twenty thousand dollars. Ivan attracts the audience in various ways - he sings karaoke, plays popular games, commenting on them, does something for a bet, answers questions from subscribers, shows simple tricks and tricks, or jokes on camera. Some of the titles of his videos characterize the plots - “Trolling schoolchildren in Digger Online”, “I draw like a cretin”, “Stoned up antics”, “Song of a nerd”. As noted by the publications “Afisha Daily” and “Newspaper. Ru”, the main audience of his video blog is teenage girls. In the global ranking at the beginning of 2016, his channel was ahead of the official accounts of the NBA, Enrique Iglesias, Lady Gaga’s publication and Vice.

2: Maxim Golopolosov

Maxim Golopolosov, who is the host of the Internet show “+100500”, is one of the most popular video bloggers on the Runet. Maxim Golopolosov makes video reviews of funny videos found on the Internet. The comic effect is achieved by gluing together fragments of the video clip with the presenter's comments. Four videos are selected for each episode. Typically, each episode is referred to by title, plot, or key phrase from the last video (the only exception is “Very New Year’s episode”). The shooting is done against the backdrop of a leopard-print bedspread (Internet users often call it a carpet), which Maxim used to cover the sofa with.

3: Oleg Brain

Oleg Brain - occupies the third position of the most popular bloggers on YouTube. As of October 2016, he has more than 5 and a half million subscribers and almost one and a half billion views on his Logo YouTube por Hernando.svg TheBrainDit channel on Youtube, which was registered on September 22, 2011. Winner of the Like 2015 award. There Oleg posts walkthroughs and reviews of computer games, including indie ones. Also plays multiplayer and online games, most often GTA Online with AlexPozitiv. Lately I have also started reviewing and playing mobile games on iPhone.

4: Stas Davydov

Stas Davydov is the host of the blog “This is Good” and gives his comments on videos sent by viewers or found by him. Interaction is usually used at the end of the transmission. In the early episodes of the program, another character participated - the voice (low bass) of “illuminator Nastenka,” who began to appear again from the 164th to the 178th issues. A distinctive feature of the project is the absence of obscene language. YouTube viewers perceive the blog “This is Good” as an alternative to another popular blog “+100500”. Both blogs are Russian-language analogues of the Ray William Johnson show. From the 29th issue, questions are removed rather than written. From the 48th episode of the show, it was released in HD format, and from the 55th to the 208th episode, the show began to be released with interactive subtitles in English for foreign users. Since the 492nd episode, the show has been released in 4K format.

5: Katya Klap

Katya Klap is on the list of the most popular YouTube bloggers. The girl shoots and publishes various videos, be it sketches, music parodies or conversational videos. Her video projects are among the top 10 most profitable in Russia. As of November 2016, he has more than 1.6 million subscribers on his main channel - FoggyDisaster" and more than 5 million on his second channel - TheKateClapp.

6: Maxim Tarasenko

Maxim Tarasenko, known under the pseudonym Brian, is one of the most bloggers of YouTube video bloggers, posting various funny videos on his channel. Many of Brian's haters believe that he borrowed the nickname of one of the most popular let's play players on Russian YouTube - Oleg Brain (TheBrainDit). Although it is not known exactly whether Brain borrowed the nickname from Oleg Brain or not. But the fact that the nicknames “Brain” and “Brain” are very similar tells us that Brian could have stolen Oleg’s nickname. Many also accuse Brian of being similar in the content of his videos to the most popular video blogger in the CIS - EeOneGuy (Ivangai). This is explained by the fact that in his videos, Brian also has fun in front of the camera and does not advertise anything in his videos. But this theory is refuted by the fact that Brian’s videos are to some extent educational than those of Ivangay, and the fact that Brian throughout his entire activity makes only his own content.

7: Maryana Rozhkova

(Maryana Ro) gained popularity in 2014-2015. She is often associated with the name of the famous video blogger Ivan Rudsky, better known as Ivangay, who is her boyfriend. Quite often, their joint videos are released on both of their channels.

8: Sasha Spielberg

Sasha Spielberg is one of the most popular YouTube video bloggers. Spielberg is a pseudonym; in her own words in an interview with Media Mag magazine, she made an “agreement” with her parents that no one would know her real name in exchange for complete freedom on the Internet. Internet fame began after uploading several videos in English on YouTube. Thousands of Americans and many friends on the other side of the world subscribed to it. This noticeably increased her self-esteem and soon Sasha was only thinking about the further development of her project, ceasing to communicate with her family. Because of this, her parents decided to send her to a boarding school abroad. After arriving in Russia, she began filming videos in Russian. She has two channels on YouTube: music and vlogs.

9: Roman Filchenkov

Roman Filchenkov is a popular YouTube video blogger. Despite the fame of his channel on Youtube, his videos have a fairly monotonous theme, mainly: video walkthroughs or reviews of the game Minecraft and other gaming innovations; online streams on the Twitch portal. He began his career as a video blogger in the summer of 2012. During this period, I was mainly involved in reviews of mods for the game Minecraft. Subsequently, video walkthroughs and other videos with similar topics appeared on his channel.

10: Valery Korneev

Valery Korneev (Lee Kei) is one of the ten most famous YouTube bloggers. Having posted several of his videos on YouTube channel Lee Kei contacted CarambaTV and they offered him affiliate program, that is, earnings at YouTube help, the agreement meant that Lee had to release at least one video every week on his channel. Lee agreed and invited his friend Kostik, who worked on Latvian television, to film a humorous show “At the Wall”, in the first episode of which Lee was going to tell viewers that you can bargain in stores. During the work on the video, the name of the show changed to “Project GOAT”. Over time, the topics of releases from everyday life changed to acutely social and philosophical.

11: Masha Wei

Girlfriend of Katya Klap. At first she helped shoot videos for her blog, and then grew to her own video channel. Maria loves doing makeup, and therefore her blog consists of video transformations, or, as they are also called, transformations. She shows and tells in detail how to use makeup to make yourself look like Rihanna, Lana Del Rey or even Johnny Depp. Maria also shares her secrets for facial skin care and claims that her skin was not ideal before either.

12: Evgeny Bazhenov

We always knew that after the USSR disappeared, something bad happened to Russian cinema. But probably no one can talk about it the way Zhenya BadComedian does. What is a review of a “masterpiece” called “Graduation” or the film “Fast Moscow-Russia” worth? Yes, we have plenty of films that you can’t watch without laughing mixed with hellish pain. By the way, Evgen speaks frankly not only about Russian, but also about foreign cinema. And, yes, we are even ready to forgive him for his review of The Hunger Games. Although, after watching the last one, the film seems terribly illogical.

We decided to understand how popular photographers and bloggers take really interesting pictures for Instagram.

To do this, we analyzed interviews and master classes Sergei Sarakhanov(photographer, 240 thousand subscribers) and Sergei Sukhov(blogger, 279 thousand subscribers) and highlighted 10 tips that will be useful to each of you.

1. Catch the sunshine in every photo

It is light that forms the image on the camera matrix and adds mood to each picture. It makes photography artistic - especially when it comes to sunny conditions.

Just observe individual interesting objects at different times of the day and photograph them.

A truly interesting effect of light in the frame will be an indicator of a successful photograph.

2. Adjust exposure during the day and evening-night

Even the standard iPhone photography app has the ability to adjust exposure. In simple words - lighting intensity.

A special slider appears after selecting an object to focus on.

Avoid noise and glare in any part of the image. Look for balance.

3. Be sure to understand the concept of composition

Composition is the arrangement of objects in the frame. If you don’t know how best to arrange them, use the iPhone camera grid, which is enabled through the settings, and the banal rule of thirds.

Be sure to place the most important objects in the photograph on the grid lines or their intersections.

4. Learn to work with “negatives” in RAW format

Posted by Sergey Sukhov (@sergeysuxov) Sep 29, 2017 at 8:47 am PDT

RAW is a kind of digital negative of an image that needs to be developed through Snapseed or other applications that support this format.

Using RAW, you can pull out overexposed or too dark areas of the image.

Thus, the whole picture will eventually sparkle with new colors and details.

5. Never stop experimenting with camera angles

None of the professional photographers take the image from the right angle from the first frame.

To find the right position for your smartphone when shooting, turn on the camera app and walk around the subject, looking for a good angle for the photo.

6. Layer and blend elements together

Posted by Sergey Sukhov (@sergeysuxov) Sep 3, 2017 at 8:53 am PDT

To work with layers, we highly recommend a specialized mobile application called Union.

Using layers, you can add additional objects to each photo to make it more interesting. For example, a sky with a bird will look more advantageous than an empty one.

The main thing in this case is to monitor the light and shadows on the added objects so that they look as realistic and harmonious as possible.

7. Try additional shooting accessories

The first program is distinguished by realistic filters, the second by the ability to flexibly adjust key photo settings before releasing the shutter, and the last by removing unnecessary objects from a photo.

9. Find creative uses for apps

Posted by Sergey Sukhov (@sergeysuxov) Jun 28, 2017 at 12:14 PDT

Some features of mobile apps may not be obvious, so don't be afraid to look for something new and experiment.

For example, you can use the Facetune app to stretch certain elements of your photos to create an interesting effect.

10. Look for realism and don’t overdo it with processing.

“This is Good” is a popular Latvian Russian-language Internet show produced since October 16, 2010. The program is broadcast twice a week - on Tuesdays and Fridays.

The blog is dedicated to reviewing funny videos on the Internet, similar to the show of American columnist Ray William Johnson.

The host of the program, Stas Davydov, gives his comments on videos sent by viewers or found by them. Interaction is usually used at the end of the transmission. In the early episodes of the program, another character participated - the illuminator Nastenka (more precisely, her voice), who began to appear again from the 164th to the 178th issues. A distinctive feature of the project is the absence of obscene language. YouTube viewers perceive the blog “This is Good” as an alternative to another popular blog “+100500”. Both blogs are Russian-language analogues of the Ray William Johnson show.

From the 29th issue, questions are removed rather than written. From the 48th episode of the show, it was released in HD format, and from the 55th to the 208th episode, the show began to be released with interactive subtitles in English for foreign users.

Issues 70, 96, 141, 198 and 308 were conducted by Ruslan Usachev. This fact was not very well received by the audience - all five times the videos received much more “I didn’t like” scores than in other episodes. Most commentators considered Ruslan not artistic enough. Issues 146, 195 and 298 were conducted by Ilya Prusikin, which was also received very coldly. The 214th and 310th editions were conducted by Mikhail Krzysztowski, who was received very warmly. The 243rd episode was hosted by Lee Kei, which again received a lukewarm reception. In the 296th issue, Stas Davydov announced that he was going to write vocal parts for his new group"Banana Bomb", and therefore in future episodes he will be replaced by guest hosts. The 297th episode was hosted by Danila Poperechny, the 300th by Daniil Maslennikov, the 301st by Sam Nickel, the 302nd by Yana Nezhdanova, the 303rd by Evgeniy Zelenov, the 304th by Maxim “SnailKick” Kiselev, the 305th by Elena Rassokhina, 306th - the creator of the project Vitaly Golovanov, the 307th episode was conducted by the drawn Stas Davydov, created and voiced by Dmitry "Syenduk" Karpov, the 309th - Kirill Trifonov, Alexander Shuliko and Denis Kukoyaka, the 311th - Stas Oksaniy, and 312th - Victoria Yushkevich.

Since the 87th issue, the project has changed visually: the creators changed the inscriptions on the screen from white to gray with a white border, moved the microphone to the bottom of the frame, changed the design of the YouTube channel and the background on which the presenter is filmed, and also removed the “Spontaneous Madness Indicator” . As of episode 97, the answers to questions shown at the end of the video have been corrected. And starting from the 100th issue, the person whose interactive video question was included in the issue receives a branded T-shirt from the “This is Good” team. The design has changed again since the 270th issue: now there is a corner of the studio behind the host, the wall is white on the left, and black on the right. On the white wall, photographs of a woman’s breasts and Milla Jovovich alternately appeared, then a sheet of paper pasted by Elena Rassokhina with the inscription “Stas is a fool”, whose place was then taken by a sheet of paper with a frame of Natalia Poklonskaya’s speech at a press conference.


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