BamBam
General Manager
- This was after the Fenty review video she did
- Says she is about to be homeless
- Money low in the bank
- But enough to buy Fenty products
- Has a production company
- Gonna throw a party in NYC ( where it all started )
ETA: Could be clickbait, since she says she will be throwing a party in NYC to celebrate her 1million subs. Idk if that's possible if you're homeless and living out of a suitcase? AND some fonts say her lease ended, so her landlord gave her a 60 day notice to find a new place to stay.
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You guys ... Maya is dramatic. Completely. She is not "homeless" in the true sense of the word, she isn't being evicted for non payment or anything like that. She is homeless in that she has to leave her current rental and doesn't have anything else lined up yet, and it probably is a little anxiety inducing for her because she has to find the perfect place for filming, with good lighting, good location, etc. She has excellent credit and a strong personal savings account (She is adamant about saving 10% of everything she makes, even if it's $1), so she will be fine and will get into a swanky apartment in no time.
Los Angeles real estate is different from east coast real estate, it is fine for her to rent an apartment or condo if she isn't ready to move into a house in the burbs somewhere. Buying apartments and condos just isn't a common thing like it is in say, NY or Atlanta.
She has said repeatedly posted videos about her financial situation and how she saved money even when she was broke and didn't have much food to eat, so there is no way that she will sacrifice her personal security to pay a bunch of people on staff. No, her businesses aren't as profitable as she likes, but if she's really doing ad and rep work for OTHER YT influencers, she might be on the right track and is determined to weather this storm.
Now. I like Maya and I've been a subscriber for awhile and I'm probably one of the small sample of viewers who watch almost everything she puts out (because I'm interested in all of it) but the reason she is at 1 mil subscribers with low video views is that her channel is ridiculously unorganized with no clear purpose or vision. One week she's doing tech, the next makeup, the next hair, the next a GRWM, the next fitness and diet, the next financial, etc, etc. She probably should have had a channel devoted solely to tech (and she should have worked incredibly hard to grow it, that is just easy money and views right there) and then another for lifestyle. The white male YTers who subscribed to her because she is a hot, exotic tech nerd are not going to want to sit through her giving a cornrow tutorial, and the white women who subscribe for her makeup and fitness tutorials are not going to sit through tech, and Black women who subscribed for her hair, etc, etc.
She needs to regroup and rebrand. She is still young enough and fresh enough to where she can still grow and become massively successful because she has the experience and more importantly, the connections (she owns a company where she promotes influencers for fµck's sake, she should be doing better), but she needs to FOCUS on being known for something other than the vague "shameless" identity. I don't even know what that means after all of these years.
Her honesty about her "brokeness" was her hustle to get y'all to buy her merchandising. lol
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