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Malaysian YouTuber Cupcake Aisyah overcomes harassment, hate and hacking to be an online star
- Aisyah Razip puts up make-up tips, vlogs and challenges on YouTube. She started uploading videos online when she was 13
- The Malaysian has more than 420,000 YouTube followers and a similar number on Instagram, and has dealt with trolls and seen her account hacked
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Becoming a YouTube star has been a long, strange journey for Malaysia’s Aisyah Razip, who uploaded her first video when she was 13 years old. Seven years on, Aisyah has defied the haters who harass her, and survived a hacking incident in 2019, to become one of the country’s top YouTube personalities.
Along the way, Aisyah has learned that life as a full-time YouTuber isn’t always easy, but her motto hidup kena chill, with which she ends her videos, helps to remind her that life should be chill.
Known by her online handle Cupcake Aisyah, she takes inspiration from long-time American YouTubers Zoella and Bethany Mota, and has amassed more than 422,000 subscribers on YouTube and more than 460,000 followers on Instagram. She generally uploads daily vlogs, make-up videos and challenges. And just like her YouTube heroes, Aisyah’s love of being in front of the camera started at a young age.
When she turned nine, Aisyah’s father gave her a camera, which sparked her love of video making. The bubbly Malaysian youngster started out using smaller scale online social networking applications such as Keek and Socialcam before venturing onto YouTube.
“I started making home videos with my family and friends. Everyone was used to seeing me with a camera,” she tells the Post.
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