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A YouTube Star in the Making

May 2014, Volume 54, Issue 3

Courtney Winnie

Flash Staff Reporter

YouTube has been a way for people to express their
selves and show their talents since 2005. When the
site was first founded, viewers were seeing quick thirty
second funny clips and as time went on the site really
grew. Nowadays people can search almost anything
they want to see and find multiple videos on the topic.
From helpful tips and advice videos, to some of the top
YouTubers making weekly videos for their viewers. The
site has come such a long way in the last nine years.
YouTube has become an outlet for people to get
noticed. “YouTubers” are now going on tours and
reaching millions of views and subscribers on their
channels for their entertaining videos. We see channels
from comedians, motivational speakers, and now
beauty gurus. Their viral videos had made these
YouTubers almost red carpet famous.
Freshmen Alexa Paniccia is a YouTube star in the
making. Alexa has had her beauty channel on YouTube
for a little over a year now and has already reached
almost 4,000 subscribers. For her YouTube has been
a way for her to help people and make videos about
something she is very interested in.

“I really love getting comments where the subscriber
tells me that I helped them on doing makeup or
discovering new products,” Alexa said.
Lucky for our generation, the internet is now a place
for a great career. Some of these YouTube stars are
being offered deals for their videos and are partnering
with companies to turn making videos into the best job
ever for a teenager. Alexa has reached a point in her
YouTube career thanks to her subscribers and views
that she partnered up with StyleHaul. Although she

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is not able to tell us how much she makes she can say
that it all depends on how many videos she posts every
month.
“I really hope to keep making videos for a while
because I actually started making money on YouTube
and I’m hoping it will be a secondary job.”
For many, YouTube has been people’s way of
communicating to large groups and doing something
they enjoy.

Dancing the Way Through Life
Josephine Morenski
Editor-in-Chief

At just three years of age,
senior Daniel Palimino began
his impeccable dance career
and has continued it all the way
through the age of 18, all thanks
to his father and hard work.
Palimino dances at RhythmN-Jump Dance Academy, and
takes a total of 16 classes a
week, 10 non-competitive and
six competitive.
“I started dancing because my
dad always went to watch my
aunt’s dance classes growing up
and always wanted to join. He
was the one who signed me up
for dance, which is rare. Dads
never sign up their sons for
dance,” Daniel Palimino said.
Not only does Palimino
spend continuous hours at a
studio, he also helps teach the
Creative Movement and Fitness
class at FHS while teacher
Anne Cook takes a leave of

absence. The class is designed
to keep students active by
dancing. Dances taught in the
class include; salsa, hip-hop,
ballroom, and more.
“Teaching Creative Movement
and Fitness is such an amazing
experience! It’s a cool way to
teach my peers the art of dance.
It’s also sad to not see Mrs.
Cook standing in the front of
the room teaching though,”
Palimino said.
Cook could not be more
overwhelmed and happy to
have Palimino teach th