9. Jaiden Animations – Being Not Straight
The YouTube channel Jaiden Animations is known for her impressive fidelity with her story-time animations with a range of topics, including nerd culture but also some very personal experiences.
It was her video where Jaiden explained her own experiences coming to understand that she was aromantic and asexual that would become one of her most-watched videos. Being Not Straight, released in March this year, was viewed 17 million times since.
Fans of channels like Jaiden’s often start to think of themselves as a part of the creator’s life. Some fans start to see themselves involved in ways that, at worst, can become abusive. Many fans wanted to disagree or even became belligerent in comments for describing herself as aromantic. But for her fans or even those outside her regular subscriber base who also have also gone through the same journey of discovery, seeing it described with such clean attention to detail was a breath of fresh air.
