Makenna Kelly

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Life with MaK
Personal information
Born
Makenna Kay Kelly
Occupation Social media influencer
Website Life with MaK's channel on YouTube
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Channel
Years active2018-present
Subscribers1.60 million [1]
(May 2022)
Total views171.54 million [1]
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg100,000 subscribers
YouTube Gold Play Button 2.svg1,000,000 subscribers

Last updated: Oct 9 2024

Makenna Kay Kelly is an American social media influencer. She began her career doing ASMR videos on YouTube, and she is best known for her viral video eating honeycomb.

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Career

Kelly created her channel in March 2018, and only after this time did her her parents learn about the channel. [2]

Kelly was part of the class of 2018 for Teen Vogue's "21 Under 21". [3] [4]

Kelly was featured on Variety’s 2019 Young Hollywood Impact Report. [5]

In 2021 Kelly currently partnered with the fast fashion brand Shein doing haul videos with the company's products. [6]

Kelly collaborated with Trendolla Jewelry to create her personal jewelry collection: 'Life With MaK Honeycomb & "Bee" kind Jewelry Set' in November 2022. [7]

Kelly acted in YouTube reality series “The Glo Show,” produced by in Far Out Studios August 2021. [8] [9] She is also known for the Access Hollywood episodes “How 13-Year-Old Makenna Kelly is Changing YouTube One Whisper at a Time” and “Life With MaK Wants to do an ASMR Collab with Cardi B and Ariana Grande.” [10]

Kelly has starred in the Inside Edition episode “Meet the 13-Year-Old who makes ASMR videos for YouTube.” [11]

Kelly made an appearance at the 40th Annual Young Artist Awards in 2019 as a nominee for a Young Artist Award. She also appeared in the TV Special CollabBASH: The First and Largest Online Creator Event. [12]

Kelly has modeled for Colorado-based clothing retailer Something New Boutique.[ citation needed ]

Kelly has modeled for the makeup brand Petite n Pretty.[ citation needed ]

Work

In the videos Kelly records a range of sounds that can be soothing. [13] As of 2019 her YouTube channel had over 1.4 million subscribers, [14] and she is particularly known for a video where she recorded sounds while eating honeycomb. [3] Some of Kelly's videos have been removed from YouTube because the automated filtering algorithms deemed them inappropriate. [11] [15] The videos in question had been flagged by the magazine Wired. [4] After the videos were removed Kelly's parents stopped allowing her to read the incoming messages requesting content, [16] and Kelly left YouTube in June 2019 because of the issues with her videos. [17]

Personal life

Kelly lives in Fort Collins, Colorado. [6] [ when? ] As of 2018 she was living in both Virginia and Colorado in 2018. [18] By 2019 she was a freshman at Fossil Ridge High School (Colorado). [19]

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