CREATED WELCOMING AND ENTERTAINING SPACE FOR TO RELY ON LONELINESS

who she is. “I’ve always been a goal-setter,” the creator says with a smile. “I love things that seem out of reach, things that get me out of my comfort zone. I want to explore life as it is and almost scare myself a little bit, because it forces me to take a step back and be mindful about the world around me.”

There is no reality without introspection. As a content creator, Ashley is a curator of her own reality. The magic of her videos is that the genre is simply her lifestyle. She doesn’t box herself into a specific kind of content; rather, she shows people how everything is.

The heart wants what it wants, and Ashley never lets anything get in the way of doing exactly what her heart desires. “I’ve always wanted to do YouTube. My heart always leaned toward a creative career, and I worked really hard for it.” It wasn’t easy creating a personal utopia that complemented her passions, but Ashley luckily had some help along the way. “Bethany Mota was always a huge inspiration of mine, and so was Emma Chamberlain.” Citing two incredibly successful female content creators as sources of inspiration certainly proved worthwhile in building her own empire.

Deriving style inspiration from the likes of contemporary designers like Sandy Liang, Ashley is certainly becoming a trendsetter for the modern age. “The future is always exciting because I could be doing anything,” she says of how external forces like style icons can affect her future reality. “As a YouTuber, I have no idea how my life is going to change. Every year of my life has been so different. Sometimes it’s great, and sometimes it’s hard, but that’s okay.” The beauty of creating an intimate utopia with her audiences is exactly what produced her success in the first place––her versatile mind creates versatile content, so much so that even her audiences spread across a wide array of demographics. She doesn’t just create one archetype of an individual, she creates what she feels like making, and that’s why people are captivated by her content.