“I thought, I’m living in Toronto. I’m a brown girl. I don’t know anyone in this [industry.] How would I ever do that?'
From as early as childhood, Lilly Singh has been drawn to creative projects. She wanted to be a rapper at one point, and then a cake decorator, and at another point a dancer. But despite how badly she wanted to be in front of an audience, being an entertainer felt out of reach for her.
She opened up about her journey from psych major to YouTuber to television personality in her keynote at the 2022 Teen Vogue Summit in Los Angeles. “In my heart, I wanted to [entertain]. I never thought it was realistic to do,” she said. “I thought, I’m living in Toronto. I’m a brown girl. I don’t know anyone in this [industry.] How would I ever do that?Lilly graduated with a psychology degree; while applying to graduate schools, she just realized she couldn’t commit to psychology for the rest of her life. “[I remember thinking,] I can’t even fathom doing this for two more years,” she said. “I closed my laptop. I went into my parents’ room, and I said, ‘Check this out, y’all. I want to make YouTube videos actually instead.
But the support didn’t come without resistance, of course. “[My parents] were confused. They were like, you’re gonna do?” she started. “They did the best thing. They said, ‘You have a year. We don’t know exactly what you’re talking about. But you have a year, and if it doesn’t work out in a year, we will make you go to grad school.’”
In that year, she used that ticking clock to swiftly learn how to edit videos, write out concepts, and build an audience. Lilly said she knew this was meant to be her path in life because it was something she was willing to put her future and a promising career path on the line for. “I felt so strongly about it that I was willing to disrupt all of that.”Want more great Culture stories from
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