Navigating the waves of YouTube

MYSTERY GUITARMAN, Natalie Tran and NigaHiga.

By Angelina Avila
Western Sun staff writer

There are many YouTube channels to subscribe to, with a variety of topics from humor to art to cats playing piano.

Here are some of the best and most interesting.

MysteryGuitarMan

http://www.youtube.com/user/MysteryGuitarMan

Joe Penna (MysteryGuitarMan) is originally from Sao Paulo, Brazil, but currently lives in Los Angeles and has 2,146,499 subscribers and plenty of great videos to watch. He’s a guitarist, a filmmaker, and an animator who combines his musical talent with his editing skills to make a whole new kind of video. Penna not only uses a guitar to make music, but also incorporates a wide variety of different objects like a paperclip or a pencil.

CommunityChannel

http://www.youtube.com/user/communitychannel

Born in Vietnam and raised in Sydney, Australia, Natalie Tran is Australia’s most subscribed user, with her channel “CommunityChannel” reaching to 1,063,044 subscribers. Using her twisted sense of humor, Tran’s videos involve parodies of other YouTube videos, skits, and monologues. Her videos feature interesting ideas and themes with a dry sense of humor. They are sure to make your day.

NigaHiga

http://www.youtube.com/user/nigahiga

With 4,577,020 subscribers, NigaHiga is one of the top channels subscribed to. Ryan Higa, the mastermind behind these great videos, is a Japanese-American comedian from Hawaii, who along with Sean Fujiyoshi, started out with videos of themselves lip-syncing to songs. Since then, Higa has greatly expanded his videos to a variety of rants, movies spoofs, and music videos that will make you laugh out loud.

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