With more than 60 bottles of clear, opaque, and glittery glue, Karina García began making a gigantic, 100-pound ball of slime for her YouTube channel. The 10-minute video – uploaded in September 2016 – garnered 17 million views. In her next video – uploaded exactly a week later – she (with the assistance of three others) popped the multi-colored goop all over herself for the Slime Bucket Challenge. García's life revolves around slime, and it's proven a very lucrative business move for the 23-year-old Mexican American.
Slime videos didn't really exist when she started uploading them onto YouTube, but now if you search for the term on the site, there are nearly 15 million results. Because the slime innovator uploaded tutorials – something missing online – she quickly racked up views. Within seven months, she began making money from her videos. And now she's so successful that she supports her siblings and parents with her videos.