YouTube is a weird phenomenon. Better yet, growing up watching famous YouTubers is an even weirder phenomenon.

I've gone through many YouTube phases throughout the past decade or so, but there are a few major channels that I've always stuck with: The Philip DeFranco Show, Tyler Oakley, Paint, Casey Neistat, and especially Jenna Marbles.

As I've grown, YouTube has grown with me. It was created in 2005, and has been influential in pop culture ever since.

My intermediate and middle school self was obsessed with the Internet, videos in particular. As I watched these content creators learn, grow, and create more videos, I felt the urge to analyze their techniques and styles.

One of the many YouTubers that caught my eye was Jenna Marbles.

If you're not familiar with her work, I'd highly recommend looking up some of her old posts. She has always been able to make me, and millions of others, laugh.

Jenna was one of the first major YouTube creators to become “famous." Although she is widely recognized by many, she doesn't market herself like so many others have chosen to do; it is evident from her videos and actions that she tries not to stay in the spotlight. She continues creating weekly content to merely make herself and others laugh while also having a good time.

While most of her videos from the early days of YouTube were short skits performed individually, her recent content has reached a more personal level.

Most of her recent videos are of her doing something crazy to her skin or hair, makeup or crafts, or something with her three dogs. Even though skits are no more, she's still hilarious.

In recent weeks, she posted an update video titled “We Bought a House." There's not much to explain about the content, the title is straightforward. Jenna and her boyfriend Julien bought a house.

This isn't significant in anyone's lives outside of Jenna's and Julien's, but it surprised me how far she's come from the time since I first started watching years ago to now.

It's also crazy how this person, who doesn't even know I exist, has been a part of my weekly routine since I was about twelve.

YouTube has been with me since I was about seven or eight, and not many generations get the chance to grow up alongside such a significant social platform. Better yet, not many social platforms last this long and thrive so much in the process.

Even so, it's fascinating to watch someone succeed throughout the past decade in such a unique and fun way.

I'm glad that I've kept watching Jenna Marbles, and I hope to keep watching her videos for a long time.