Author's Note: Jaclyn Hill (jaclynhill1 on YouTube) is my inspiration for Elle, however Elle is NOT Jaclyn Hill nor Scarlett Leithold. Elle is a combination of Jaclyn's profession and personality, but is physically (i.e. looks, age, etc.) attributed to Scarlett. Sorry if this confuses anyone, but you'll get the idea.
I've been staring at my laptop for what feels like an hour, trying to process what's on the screen.
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One MILLION subscribers. I actually hit one million subscribers on my YouTube channel. I never thought this day would come and now that it was here, I had absolutely no idea what to do. I really wanted to upload a video today, but the tutorial I was working on wasn't ready to be filmed. I was too excited to get creative, so I opened my phone and decided to ask people to send me questions for a Q&A video, seeing as I hadn't filmed one in a few months.
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The sounds of the waves crashing on the sand outside my window helped me to focus as I finished setting everything up. I scanned the room and checked to make sure that everything was in place. My fairy lights behind my bed were plugged in a twinkling, casting a soft white glow on the walls and bringing even more light into my predominantly white room. My camera was sat on my tripod with a ring light attached just in front of it to prevent any unwanted shadows in the frame. After deciding that my filming space was ready, I grabbed my phone off the desk and brought it over to my bed with me. I hit the small red recording button on the back of the camera and plopped on the bed with the phone in my hand.
I checked my appearance in the viewfinder, raking my fingers through my messy blonde hair a few times to try and get it to look tousled and beachy, rather than frizzy and puffy like I did right now. After giving myself one last check in the mirror, I turned around to face the camera, locking in on the lens as I began to film.
"Hey guys, I'm Elle and you're not watching Disney Channel because you're watching my video instead."
Wow, so clever Elle. Good one.
"So I feel like it's been a while since I filmed a Q and A video for you guys, and a lot of things have been happening recently, so I thought I should go ahead and make another one." I picked my phone up from next to me and opened the Twitter app. "So I went on Twitter today and asked you guys to send me your questions with the hashtag 'Ask Elle' and a lot of you have been doing just that, so let's see what it is that you want to know."
