- Lizzy Capri take one.
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I'm Lizzy Capri and I am a content creator.
Most of my content lives on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.
- Today, we are doing something super fun.
I kind of started off with vlogs,
where I held the camera by myself and filmed my day.
And then it kind of started morphing into more production
and challenges, including other people.
Now I kind of do it all.
I do travel vlogs. I do challenges still. I do pranks.
It is very fun. It is very light
and you know, I want everyone to feel very included
and feel like they're part of my life while watching.
- What is up guys? Welcome back to my channel.
Through my content I wanna be able
to spread like positivity, love, friendship,
and also some drama. (Laughs)
You know, I studied technical writing in college
and I was in the tech bubble for about a year
and then my boyfriend got into it
and he was like, Liz,
look at what we're doing, like this is so cool.
We're like wow, you can actually make money off content.
- She's so annoying.
- (mimicking) She's so annoying.
- Stop. - (mimicking) Stop.
Basically after that, we were like okay,
let's like actually try this.
We're gonna see where we can take this thing
and just risk everything but it was still super, super scary
because you know my whole life
I was kind of trained to go on this traditional path
and then you get this nine-to-five. And for my parents,
they were actually entrepreneurs themselves.
They were like we want you to get a stable job
because we didn't experience that.
So stable and you're so secure.
And then I quit.
Spicy noodle challenge.
We were working like 12 to 16 hours a day.
Didn't really have any balance
with our work life or any of that.
That was kind of the start of Team RAR.
Content creation really brought us all together.
It's nice to build something with people
that you genuinely care about,
and even behind the scenes, like helping each other build
each other's businesses, is a huge part of our lives.
The things that I do off camera are not really as exciting
as most people might think.
I probably film six to eight hours the whole week.
Everything else is pre-production, post-production.
So, Mondays we'll have meetings,
we'll figure out what we're going to do for the week,
how to make the video interesting,
what the thumbnail will look like,
just all the logistics of it.
So that definitely takes a long time,
sometimes almost longer than the actual filming
of the video.
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Something that's been really refreshing, for me at least
when I see other creators, just using your platform
to spread positive messaging.
Cyber bullying is such a real thing these days.
It can get dark so quickly and it's like
why would you want to be on that side of the internet?
A huge thing that has helped me is seeing
a lot of creators talk about burnout or mental health.
And I'm like wow, it's so refreshing
to see other people dealing with similar struggles.
Not only is it so fulfilling for me to pay it forward,
but to show that to my audience
so that they can feel inspired to do the same,
is so powerful because my audience is huge,
the damage they can do is insane.
I think it's so important to create that
and inspire that in people.
Even the little things,
you can really make a difference in the world.
So I build all of my content through Team RAR,
but for any of my philanthropic endeavors
I haven't really had a platform
and so it just made sense to partner with GoDaddy,
in building out the site so everyone can see,
you know what I'm doing outside of just YouTube.
I'm just getting started. I wanna build more.
So having the right people because people just make
everything that much better, you know,
like people who genuinely care about me,
and the work we're doing, and are super passionate,
I think that's what makes like a huge difference.
It still feels so surreal to me how big this has gotten
but I'm super, super grateful for having this platform
and being able to express myself.
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