Online star … video blogger Natalie Tran says that while ethnicity is irrelevant to
YouTube success it would be preferable to see a greater spread of racial backgrounds
on television.

MAJOR TV networks stand accused of creating too few roles for people from
Australia’s ethnic mix. Firass Dirani, who portrayed John Ibrahim in Channel
Nine’s Underbelly: The Golden Mile and New Zealand actor Jay Laga’aia, recently
cut from Home and Away, have slammed racial tokenism on television.

But viewers of the democratised online platform YouTube see a different
representation of Australia.

More of them log on to Natalie Tran’s channel on YouTube than any other. Ms Tran,
25, who lives in Sydney and has a Vietnamese background, is at the top of the list of
the most subscribed to channels in Australia. Her witty and instructive video blogs
have earned her hundreds of millions of viewers globally – and a large salary.

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