{"id":26693,"date":"2025-04-27T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T09:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26693"},"modified":"2025-04-27T09:23:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T09:23:35","slug":"when-a-childs-life-becomes-the-family-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26693","title":{"rendered":"When a Child\u2019s Life Becomes the Family Business"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Evan Lee was in elementary school when he became the linchpin of his family\u2019s business. With his neatly combed hair and dimpled smile, he was a charm bomb, conveying on camera both the cheerful sincerity of a boy scout and the precocious charisma of a whiz kid. Evan, eventually known to seven million YouTube subscribers as EvanTube, was one of the earliest kid influencers, internet famous for playing with toys.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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EvanTube blew up by accident in October 2011, when a freelance videographer named Jared Lee sculpted the entire cast of the Angry Birds video game out of modeling clay for his 5-year-old son. Delighted by this handiwork, Evan and Jared decided to make a home video<\/a>, like a show and tell. Situated at the family\u2019s dining table with the figurines arrayed before him, Evan earnestly explained each character\u2019s special powers, according to the video game.<\/p>\n

\u201cYellow Bird goes super fast,\u201d he said, in a halting voice, glancing occasionally toward his father, who was filming. He picked up a lumpy pale bird. \u201cThis is White Bird. It flies and drops white bombs and looks like a lemon when he dies.\u201d A tiny smile revealed baby teeth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Evan is 19 now and looking back at his life. \u201cMy brain was still developing when I was that young,\u201d so he doesn\u2019t remember every detail of how it all happened, he told me when I visited him at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where he is finishing his first year. He can\u2019t recall why he wanted his own YouTube channel, only that he and his father sat at the computer and chose the name \u201cEvanTube.\u201d Evan and Jared uploaded their video and forgot about it. Within several months, it had 70,000 views. Ultimately, it reached 11 million.<\/p>\n

At Christmas that year, Jared bought a haul of Angry Birds merch at Toys \u201cR\u201d Us \u2014 action figures and magnets, erasers and gummy candy, hoodies and blankets, backpacks and plush toys \u2014 and recorded as Evan showcased them<\/a>, one by one, in front of the family\u2019s dazzling Christmas tree. Since the show-and-tell video, his patter had become polished.<\/p>\n

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Evan Lee was in elementary school when he became the linchpin of his family\u2019s business. With his neatly combed hair and dimpled smile, he was a charm bomb, conveying on camera both the cheerful sincerity of a boy scout and the precocious charisma of a whiz kid. Evan, eventually known to seven million YouTube subscribers as EvanTube, was one of the earliest kid influencers, internet famous for playing with toys.Listen to this article with reporter commentaryEvanTube blew up by accident in October 2011, when a freelance videographer named Jared Lee sculpted the entire cast of the Angry Birds video game out of modeling clay for his 5-year-old son. Delighted by this handiwork, Evan and Jared decided to make a home video, like a show and tell. Situated at the family\u2019s dining table with the figurines arrayed before him, Evan earnestly explained each character\u2019s special powers, according to the video game.\u201cYellow Bird goes super fast,\u201d he said, in a halting voice, glancing occasionally toward his father, who was filming. He picked up a lumpy pale bird. \u201cThis is White Bird. It flies and drops white bombs and looks like a lemon when he dies.\u201d A tiny smile revealed baby teeth.Evan is 19 now and looking back at his life. \u201cMy brain was still developing when I was that young,\u201d so he doesn\u2019t remember every detail of how it all happened, he told me when I visited him at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where he is finishing his first year. He can\u2019t recall why he wanted his own YouTube channel, only that he and his father sat at the computer and chose the name \u201cEvanTube.\u201d Evan and Jared uploaded their video and forgot about it. Within several months, it had 70,000 views. Ultimately, it reached 11 million.At Christmas that year, Jared bought a haul of Angry Birds merch at Toys \u201cR\u201d Us \u2014 action figures and magnets, erasers and gummy candy, hoodies and blankets, backpacks and plush toys \u2014 and recorded as Evan showcased them, one by one, in front of the family\u2019s dazzling Christmas tree. Since the show-and-tell video, his patter had become polished.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26695,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26693"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26696,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26693\/revisions\/26696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}