Brooke Brodack facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Brooke Brodack
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Brodack at 2008 ROFLCon
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Brooke Allison Brodack
April 7, 1986 Putnam, Connecticut, U.S.
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| Other names | Brooke Alley |
| Years active | 2005–2018 (New channel is active) |
| Known for | YouTube personality |
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| Genre | Vlog |
| Subscribers | 64 thousand (2014) |
| Total views | ~50 million (2014) |
| Subscriber and view counts updated as of May 4, 2023. | |
Brooke Allison Brodack (born April 7, 1986), known online as Brookers, is one of the very first people to become famous on YouTube. She started uploading funny short videos in September 2005. At that time, YouTube creators couldn't earn money from their videos.
In 2006, TV host Carson Daly offered her a contract, but it didn't lead to a TV show. For a short time in 2006, Brooke's channel had the most subscribers on YouTube. It was the first channel ever to reach 10,000 subscribers. She was also the first and only female creator to hold the top spot for subscribers. The New Yorker magazine called her "the first real YouTube star" in 2006.
Brooke later lived with another famous YouTuber, iJustine. After a while, she deleted her original YouTube channel. She then moved to Vadodara, India, and later returned to Los Angeles in 2017.
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Discovering Brooke Brodack's Early Life
Brooke Brodack was born in Putnam, Connecticut. She started making videos when she was just nine years old. After high school, she went to a few colleges but didn't finish her studies.
Before becoming a YouTube star, Brooke worked as a receptionist and hostess. She also volunteered to help train dogs for people who are deaf or have disabilities. She lived in Holden, Massachusetts, with her mother and younger sister.
How Brooke Brodack Became an Internet Star
Brooke began sharing her funny, short videos on her "Brookers" YouTube channel in September 2005. By June 2006, her videos were so popular that Carson Daly, a host on NBC, offered her a special contract.
From July 3 to August 17, 2006, her "Brookers" channel was the most-subscribed channel on YouTube. This was a huge achievement! The Wall Street Journal even called her a "Crossover Star" in July 2006.
What Made Her Videos Popular?
Brooke usually directed, edited, and acted in her early videos. Many of them were filmed at her family home in Holden, Massachusetts. The New Yorker described her videos as "defiantly madcap," meaning they were very silly and wild.
Her most famous video was "Crazed Numa Fan!!!!" In this video, she hilariously lip-synced to a popular internet song called "Numa Numa Dance." This video was watched over 8.2 million times on YouTube! Her younger sister, Melissa, often appeared in her videos, including "Crazed Numa Fan!!!!"
Another one of her popular videos was "Chips." It was a funny, suspenseful story about eating potato chips. Entertainment Weekly called it "brilliant" and listed it as one of the "great moments in YouTube history."
Brooke's Appearances and Projects
From 2006 to 2007, Brooke played a big part in a video contest website sponsored by NBC and hosted by Carson Daly. She also appeared on The Tyra Banks Show in December 2006, where she helped judge a student video competition.
In February 2007, she was in a viral music video called "The Sound of Your Voice" for the band Barenaked Ladies, alongside other early YouTube stars. Brooke even had her own web channel, brookebrodack.tv, from May 2007 to March 2008.
In November 2007, she made a viral video advertisement for an auction of Ozzy Osbourne's items. She was paid a good amount of money for this project.
What Happened to Brooke Brodack Later?
From 2013 to 2017, Brooke lived in Vadodara, India. There, she worked on video workshop lectures.
In February 2017, she moved back to Los Angeles. On July 12, 2017, Brooke deleted her main YouTube account. She also made her other social media accounts private or deleted them.
In 2018, she started a new YouTube channel with her own name, but that channel also no longer exists. In 2019, Brooke created another new YouTube channel. As of August 2024, this channel has over 1,700 subscribers. This is fewer than her previous channel, which had over 59,000 subscribers before it was deleted in 2017.
See also
In Spanish: Brooke Brodack para niños
- List of YouTubers
- History of YouTube
