After graduating in May, senior Morgan Yates will move to Los Angeles to become a YouTuber full time.
She began posting to YouTube as a high school sophomore with her best friend, fellow UNC senior Caroline Harding. She now has over 150,000 subscribers on YouTube and has collaborated with brands like Macy’s, Barnes and Noble and Redken.
“I recruited my friend because she was cooler than me, and I didn’t want to do it by myself,” Yates said. “So, if people found it, it would be less embarrassing.”
Their first video, filmed under the username The Forever Glamorous, was on prom hair tutorials, inspired by beauty gurus like JuicyStar07.
“It was a video of her just curling my hair. It was so unprofessional and kind of embarrassing looking back, but that got us started," Harding said. "I remember we kept it a huge secret because at the time it was not a cool thing to have a YouTube channel."
"But, it was fun to start, and it’s really cool to see where it is now.”
The video has since been made private and Harding left the channel after privacy concerns from her parents, but Yates continued making videos in high school, uploading twice a week.
“She’s a type A personality,” Sarah Bonn, Yates' housemate and UNC senior, said. “She’s super organized and detail oriented, but that also makes her very driven and focused. Even though she has those qualities she’s also a very carefree person.”
