A teenage singer's Tik Tok fame, a Liverpudlian reconnecting with his whakapapa and a 'curvy girl' from Canterbury preaching body positivity... online content creators chat about what they do and why.
Lucy Blakiston: deciding the Shit You Should Care About
An Instagram account set up by three Blenheim teenagers in 2018 now provides information, articles and podcasts to over 3.3 million Instagram followers around the world.
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Watch - The boy who accidentally became famous on TikTok
How a moment of boredom, a 15-second Capella, and #FliFlaFlo hurtled one Christchurch teenager into instant fame.
Being fat, Māori and naked on Instagram
Anna McAllister gets real.
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Your Korean Dad - an unlikely Tik Tok star
Nick Cho started out as dad to two daughters. Now, as 'Your Korean Dad', he’s has added 1.7 million followers to the family.
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Watch - 'Curvy girl online': the Kiwi influencer beating body shamers
Instagram influencer Ellie Haines spreads body positivity from her Canterbury home.
Shehnaz Hussain: med student, chef and champion power-lifter
Shehnaz Hussain is donating profits from her cookbook Tang, Spice, Crunch to an orphanage in Chennai, India.
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Listen - How to grow an online audience and make real money
Social media guru Kennedy Anderson takes us inside the world of influencers and content creators.
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Social media figures embrace te reo Māori
By day, Josh Kirkley is an educator in astronomy but in his own time, he creates humour and info-packed TikTok videos about te reo Māori.
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How a Liverpudlian discovered his whakapapa
In the TikTok series My Long Lost Māori Dad, English-born Lewis Contini shares the experience of learning about his own culture.
The Texan 'Tik Tok Doc' on her move to Southland
Danielle Jones - known online as the 'Mama Doctor' to her millions of followers - is now delivering babies at Southland Hospital.
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Listen - How 'mominfluencers' are shaping motherhood expectations online
Influential mothers on social media shape are managing vast empires - and shaping expectations about motherhood.
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