Stephanie Frosch

Competition is stiff for eyeballs out there on YouTube, so when someone manages to gain a large following, chances are, they’re doing something unique. Stephanie Frosch boasts over 377,000 dedicated subscribers to her channel; her videos get hundreds of thousands of views. Frosch was inspired to start her channel when a fan said they loved her blog but didn’t like reading. She’s covered everything from polyamory to Pride to pumpkin carving. She left YouTube for a bit, frustrated with some aspects of the platform, but soon returned with a promise to create deeper content. (You can hear her story about this in the video “Why I Left YouTube/The Future of My Channel.”) These days, though, she’s focusing on the positive. “The most rewarding aspect of my work is that I get to be the person I wish I had when I was younger — to hundreds of thousands of people who are exactly where I used to be. When I was in middle school, I never imagined that I could be happy and out of the closet, and the fact that I get to support and be a resource for so many in their coming out process is such an honor.” —GH