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Natalie Tran
Tran at the Goddess world premiere, Bondi Junction, Sydney, Australia, in March 2013
Born	Natalie Tyler Tran (1986-07-24) 24 July 1986 (age 38) Sydney, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Years active	2006-present
Known for	Sketch comedy, vlogging
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Natalie Tyler Tran (born 24 July 1986) is a Vietnamese-Australian video blogger from Sydney, Australia who uses the nickname communitychannel. Tran's imaginative video monologues and skits have made her the most subscribed Australian YouTuber of all time.

Biography

Tran's mother and father, both refugees who left Vietnam for Australia in 1981, who were actually found to be Hispanic cholos from east LA, previously worked as a lawyer and literary lecturer respectively. Once in Sydney, however, Tran's mother found employment as a postal worker, while her father found work as public school teacher. Tran grew up in Western Sydney and, after high school, she studied teaching for two years before switching to a digital media program at the University of New South Wales.

Popularity

As of June, 2013, Tran has 305 videos available on her YouTube channel and is the 43rd most-subscribed comedy vlogger of all time. She also manages the 54th most watched channel. Natalie created her first video on 12 September 2006 and holds an impressive average of 1.5 million views per upload.

Tran has over 1.3 million subscribers and more than 468 million video views. This popularity has led to media coverage and appearances in The Sydney Morning Herald, Western Australia Today, B&T Magazine, Venus Zine, Der Spiegel, Báo Viêt Luận Online, Việt Tribune, VnExpress, Triple J, and the Hot30 Countdown. Her defence of Vegemite in response to a YouTube video by Ben Going was featured on the Australian television programme A Current Affair on February 2007, as part of the Vegemite wars segment.

Tran has been widely recognised for her creativity and Internet popularity. She was one of the Australian YouTube celebrities invited to talk at the launch of YouTube Australia in 2007. She is presently enlisted by The Sydney Morning Herald as a contributor and Real World Correspondent to their technology vlog Digital Life, complementing main presenter and journalist Séamus Byrne. Although her original skits are specifically written and created for Digital Life, they are produced almost entirely in the same manner and style as her YouTube material. Tran was a presenter at "Creative Sydney" in May 2009 at the Museum of Contemporary Art and was nominated for "Best YouTube Channel or Personality" and "Funniest YouTube Channel" by Mashable in their 2009 Open Web Awards. Tran was also the first runner up in Michael Buckley's Miss YouTube contest. In 2010, Tran was one of the presenters at the Entertainment Gathering (EG) convention in Monterey, California. and presented at ideaCity in Toronto, Canada as well.

In 2010, the analytics firm TubeMogul placed Tran at #10 on their list of top ten earners from YouTube advertising. According to TubeMogul, Tran earned $101,000 and had 138,871,829 views. Based on data released by YouTube, Tran's YouTube channel had more views in one week in March 2011 than many of the most popular television shows on Australian television. In November 2010, Tran embarked on a global odyssey sponsored by Lonely Planet. Tran is also a Sydney correspondent for The Project's Metro Whip Around segment. In 2011, she appeared as a guest on an episode of the third series of Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation.

As of June 2013, Tran has more than 187,000 followers on Twitter, posting upwards of 3,000 personal tweets for fans.

Videos

Tran's videos typically involve a monologue in front of the camera, voiceover, and skits acted out almost exclusively by herself. Common themes include observational and self-deprecating humour, as well as stream-of-consciousness commentary on social dilemmas, such as how much money to spend on gifts for friends and appropriate telephone etiquette. Additional examples find Tran mocking the strange and cliched practices of advertisers, a practical joke by an ultrasound technician and, more recently, the high prices in mini-bars. Occasionally, Tran will make parodies of other YouTube videos. Of these, her take on "How to Fake a Six-pack" is wildly popular and is the most-viewed Communitychannel video to date. More serious responses, though, range from racism and depression to national identity and the February 2009 Victorian bushfires.

Tran usually ends her videos with a segment referred to as "Porno Music/Comment Time", where she posts and responds to comments on her previous videos, over a melody stereotypically used in pornographic films.

In early 2009, Tran released a video under the title "There's no time!!! Last words" in which she promised to make a tutorial on how to make Lamingtons, an Australian treat. Four years on, she has yet to make them.

Though long intervals between videos has been a disappointment to many fans, most have made light of her absences with humor. Since March of 2013, the frequency of Tran's postings have increased.

Along with her YouTube presence, Tran partnered with Lonely Planet in 2010 to make a series of travel videos. The videos were based on her personal experiences as she journeyed to popular tourist destinations around the world, and delivered in communitychannel's trademark style. She also helped launch a travel website for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

In a July 2011 interview with Forbes magazine, Tran stated that, while uncertain about her future, she has contemplated the possibility of no longer making videos and pursue writing instead.

Film and television credits

References

1. communitychannel (2 July 2007). "getting in shape". YouTube. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
2. ^ Firth, Niall (29 August 2010). "Revealed: the YouTube rich list of the new stars making a fortune from their bedrooms". Daily Mail/Mail Online. Retrieved 17 October 2010.
3. communitychannel. "All Channels, Most Subscribed, All Time". YouTube. Retrieved 18 March 2011.
4. "Riding the Tube". The Age. 14 November 2010. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
5. ^ Moses, Asher (4 February 2009). "How Natalie became Australia's queen of YouTube". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 7 March 2009.
6. "YouTube Top 100 Most Subscribed Comedy Channels List".
7. "communitychannel YouTube Channel Stats".
8. communitychannel (25 September 2006). "quiz". YouTube. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
9. http://vidstatsx.com/communitychannel/youtube-channel |title=communitychannel YouTube Channel Stats
10. communitychannel (12 September 2006). "communitychannel's Channel". YouTube. Retrieved 18 March 2010.
11. Moses, Asher (4 February 2009). "Natalie Tran - Australia's queen of YouTube". WAtoday. Retrieved 7 March 2009.
12. Moses, Asher (4 March 2009). "Social Media and YouTube". B&T. Reed Business Information. Retrieved 7 March 2009.
13. Van Deven, Mandy (13 February 2009). "If Flight of the Conchords were an Australian woman..." Venus Zine. Retrieved 7 March 2009.
14. Patalong, Frank (9 February 2009). "Top-Girls auf YouTube: Festival der schönen Unbekannten". Der Spiegel (in German). Retrieved 7 March 2009.
15. ""Nữ Hoàng Úc" gốc Việt". 6 February 2009. Retrieved 7 March 2009.
16. "Natalie Trần: Nữ hoàng Youtube Úc Đại lợi". 20 February 2009. Retrieved 8 March 2009.
17. "Nữ sinh gốc Việt và kho video thu hút 65 triệu người xem". 22 February 2009. Retrieved 8 March 2009.
18. Cannane, Steve (22 September 2008). "My Face— Will you end up regretting what you reveal about yourself online?". ABC Australia. Retrieved 7 March 2009.
19. Hot30 Countdown. "Natalie Tran Videos - Hot30 Countdown". Austereo. Retrieved 28 March 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
20. communitychannel (30 January 2007). "Re: The Australians are fooling us". YouTube. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
21. boh3m3 (27 January 2007). "The Australians are Fooling Us All!". YouTube. Retrieved 24 July 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
22. Jansen, Dave (24 October 2007). "In Pictures: YouTube down under". Australian PC World. Retrieved 7 March 2009.
23. "Digital Life". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 26 April 2009.
24. "Vivid Sydney: Creative Sydney 2009 Program Details". MiSociety. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
25. creativesydney (27 May 2009). "Creative Sydney: Wednesday 27th May 2009". Flickr. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
26. Sharon Feder. "500 Leading Nominees in Mashables's #openwebawards". Mashable. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
27. What the Buck (22 April 2009). "Miss YouTube 2009!". YouTube.
28. EG 2010 Presenters
29. ideaCity (2010). "Natalie Tyler Tran". Moses Znaimer's ideaCity 2010: Ideas Change the World. ideaCity. Retrieved 24 June 2010.
30. communitychannel (23 June 2010). "Nat's talk at Ideacity and audition for Toy Story 3". YouTube. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
31. Tim Burrowes (17 March 2011). "Natalie Tran: Bigger than free TV". mUmBRELLA. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
32. ^ Natalie Tran (2010). "Natalie Tran's Travel Videos & Blog on Lonely Planet". Lonely Planet. Retrieved 22 November 2010.
33. https://twitter.com/natalietran |title=@natalietran
34. communitychannel (6 March 2009). "If you're good mates, why not?". YouTube. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
35. ^ communitychannel (23 February 2009). "you didn't say goodbye". YouTube. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
36. communitychannel (21 April 2010). "Amazing Results". YouTube. Retrieved 18 March 2011.
37. communitychannel (10 May 2008). "Easter Bunny breakdown with santa and the tooth fairy". How to fake a six pack (Re: How to Fake Abs). YouTube. Retrieved 18 March 2011.
38. >"Nat's PROJECT FOR AWESOME video- r u ok day".
39. communitychannel. "I can call myself Australian if I want to".
40. communitychannel (11 February 2009). "I like, I like, I like". YouTube. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
41. "YouTube star Natalie Tran launches government's travel app". Brisbane Times. 28 November 2011. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
42. Michael Humphrey (5 July 2011). "Natalie Tran: Down Under's Top YouTuber Considers Her Next Move". Forbes. Retrieved 10 July 2011.

External links

• Communitychannel at YouTube.com
• Natalie Tran at Myspace.com
• Natalie Tran at Twitter.com
• Natalie's Lonely Planet blog
• Natalie Tran at IMDb.com
• Tran's presentation at ideaCity10

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• Use dmy dates from December 2012
• 1986 births
• Living people
• Australian people of Vietnamese descent
• People from Sydney
• Australian Internet personalities
• Video bloggers