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Tran at the Australian premiere of Paper Towns, July 2015
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Natalie Tyler Tran 24 July 1986 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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Nationality | Australian | ||||||||
Residence | Sydney, Australia | ||||||||
Occupation | Comedian, actress and Internet personality | ||||||||
Website | www |
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Channel | communitychannel | ||||||||
Years active | 2006 – present | ||||||||
Genre | Comedy | ||||||||
Subscribers | 1.8 million (communitychannel) 57,000 (natalie) |
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Total views | 586 million (communitychannel) 226,000 (natalie) |
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Vietnamese | Trần Tố Hân |
Natalie Tyler Tran (born 24 July 1986) is an Australian online producer, actress, comedian and writer from Sydney who uses the handle communitychannel on YouTube. Her videos are a mixture of monologue and sketch and have been described as "charming, quirky and hilarious", and have garnered her a following of over 1.8 million subscribers and 575 million views.
Tran's mother and father, both refugees who left Vietnam for Australia in 1981, previously practiced law and literary lecturing, respectively. After they resettled in Sydney, however, Tran's mother found employment in the postal service, while her father became a public school teacher. Tran credits her parents for making the success she has enjoyed possible, once writing that they both "endured so much to give my sister and I great lives."
Tran was raised in Western Sydney, and studied at Meriden School in Strathfield, where she graduated in 2004. After high school, she pursued teaching for two years before switching to, and later completing a degree in, Digital Media at the University of New South Wales.
As of April 2016, Tran has over 400 videos available on her YouTube channel. Tran created her first video on 12 September 2006, and it now has over 700 thousand views.
Tran has over 1.85 million subscribers and more than 562 million video views. Her popularity has attracted wide-ranging media coverage, including interviews and appearances in print, on television, online and on the radio. The Sydney Morning Herald,Western Australia Today,B&T Magazine,Venus Zine,Der Spiegel,Seventeen,Báo Viêt Luận Online,Việt Tribune,VnExpress,Triple J, and the Hot30 Countdown are among the highlights. Her passionate defence of Vegemite, made in response to a YouTube video by Ben Going, was featured on the Australian television programme A Current Affair on February 2007, as part of the Vegemite wars segment.