June 14, 2024 • 14 mins
In this episode of Influencer Insights, Taf sits down with Chiedza, a rising star in the YouTube community. Join us as we delve into Chiedza's journey, from her humble beginnings to becoming a successful influencer. Chiedza shares the highs and lows of her experience, the strategies that helped her grow her channel, and her vision for the future. Whether you're an aspiring YouTuber or just curious about the life of a content creator, this episode is packed with valuable insights and inspiration. Don't miss out on Chiedza's unique story and her tips for making it big on YouTube!
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(00:00):
What's up? Everybody? Welcome tothe Chatroom, a podcast dedicated with having
interviews with upcoming stars and influencers ofour generation. Please follow us on Facebook
and Instagram at the chatroom dot tcR and on Twitter at the chatroom underscore
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(00:26):
Enjoy the episode. Good afternoon,ladies and gentlemen, Oh, good evening,
good morning spending on what time itis? I'm your host Teff and
welcome to the chatroom. And todaywith me we have Chizza. How are
you doing? I am so fine? How are you fantastic? So for
those of as you I know Chizais Chiezza is a YouTuber currently based in
(00:51):
Capetown, South Africa, and he'soriginally from Zimbabwe, born and raised,
Born and raised. So are youdoing today? At a week? All
this COVID going on? Yeah,guys, all about positivity, you know,
positive vibes, you know, justdon't go out too much, don't
party too much. We'll all makeit and one level one now so that's
(01:12):
insane. So still vibes A side, I don't know what you guys are
tuning over that side saying over thatside, Well, sim slang is actually
destroying. We don't know about all. I don't know what, but other
so we have a YouTube channel,and most people definitely want to know what
(01:33):
made you want to start? Justwatching other people's YouTube channels YouTubers that I
enjoyed watching them really made me wantto start. And I like creating videos
and like editing videos, like Ilike looking at aesthetic things. And I
(01:55):
used to always take like videos andthen just like edit them all together,
like put music over them. AndI thought it was pretty sick. And
I was like, you know what, let me go out and try record
my day. That'll be pretty sicktoo, And I, you know,
I just started to me a longtime, but I started. I literally
(02:15):
always wanted to be a YouTuber.I think before I actually started, like
over a year, I wanted tobe a YouTuber. But I was literally
so scared to start. I wasso scared, and starting is actually the
scariest part. But after that,it's a breeze, Right, What were
you scared of? What we wasscared? The fierce mischieves, It's it's
(02:38):
a really big thing to put yourwhole personal life on the internet because literally
people can judge you from every singleangle on the planet and there's nothing you
can say. There'll always be trollson the Internet and stuff like that.
There's nothing you can say. Solike that's harsh criticism. I was like,
(02:59):
okay, am I ready for alidias? Like literally it was a decision
to just not have my privacy beingprivately more. There's still stuff that I
keep private, but like a lotof my life is on the internet.
People know where I live. They'renot okay, not where I live.
I can't yet, not like myhouse, but they know. They know
(03:23):
what my dog looks like, theyknow my friends look like, they know
what my car looks like, theyknow where I go to school, stuff
like that. So it's just likeactually putting your whole life onto the internet.
So what was the one thing?What was it one thing or a
series of events that made you overcomethat fear of being starting it? To
(03:46):
be honest, I still have thatfear even when I was like editing the
video, like until I actually pressedthe video. I remember I edited the
video and then I was about toupload it and I literally was on a
call with like four of my friends. I'm like, can't I can't do
this. Guys like I can't dothis. I'm not going to do this,
and like it's really just really myfriends that pushed me to start my
(04:10):
two channel. That's great to hear. Shout out to the guy, Shout
out to the family. So we'vebeen following you from like the time it's
still like seven subscribers, and nowwe have over two thousand subscribers, and
I just want to know, familyis so big now, it's so legendary,
it's so growing by the day.And you jumped. You made a
(04:33):
huge jump from from last year Novemberto today, where last year you're trying
to get a thousand subscribers and they'renow within the space of three months your
two grand So what can you tellus about that? My supporters everything is
actually my supporters. Everything is mysubscribers. Everywhere I am because of my
subscribers, how they push out mycontent, the interaction with my videos.
(05:00):
You're commenting on my video and stufflike that. It then boosts like it'll
push YouTube, will push my video. The more people interact and people actually
do really interact my content, whichis so amazing. So I think it's
literally my subscribers who like push meto the reposts, putting me on your
(05:20):
stories and stuff like that. Youknow, it spreads it out. It
like puts my name out there,which is pretty cool, right, How
much that's that's actually you already hearfrom the Horses Mount subscribers, she appreciates
you and there's a legendary. Ohlook at that from the Horses Monks.
You said legendary, not good,not great, legendary not nothing less than
(05:44):
legendary, nothing less all the way. Love to hear you, love to
hear. Summers time would just sayyou put into YouTube from the time you
filmed, from the time you gointo editing until from the idea to the
final post. How long does howmuch time? Much? What percentage of
your time do you put to that? You making YouTube videos actually doesn't take
(06:08):
that long. It's just the editingthat takes a lifetime. But a vlog
it will only take long if you'relike doing like a weekend flog or like
a day block because obviously that's gonnalast a day two days like that's not
only gonna take the video, orif you're doing like it's like videos like
(06:30):
I have a video on my channellike five Ways not to be a Sad
Loser, which took me like aweek because I was like filming every day.
But then usually filming doesn't take thatlong. It's yeah, it's just
editing. When it comes to editingthere by editing, No, it's actually
kind of a pain. So you'rein culinary school, yes, yes,
(06:55):
and that's more of a hands oncourse. That's a lot of Obviously,
everyone thinks that you just spend mostof your time in the kitchen. What
they don't know is you actually alsohave some studying to do on your own.
So, yeah, how do youbalance the study, they're going to
class, the YouTube, the family, the friends, and et cetera.
What would you say is like yoursecret or the formula to doing all that.
(07:19):
It's definitely pretty hard, which iswhy this year I haven't been being
as consistent as I YouTube because nowI'm actually working so much and I only
have like two off days or workto your plate. Oh you have a
full schedule, like yeah, yo, working in a restaurant, dog start
(07:41):
in the morning, end of thenight, or you do sleep when you
get home, then wake up andrepute. Like, it's pretty hard.
And then like my off days willbe like Tuesday and Wednesday, which one
of my friends is going to goand do stuff with me that's like film
movie. So it's like pretty hard. But whenever you're doing a little something
something, just whip up the camera, you know, try and make things
(08:03):
work right. So multitasking is theof the game. Yeah, and you
actually need to plan out your timeprobably because if I only have two days
off, that means I'm filming oneday and editing the other day, So
you're two days office, so you'renot even north day if you think about
it. Yeah, but at leastit's enjoyable, enjoyably I mean the filming,
but you heard ladies and gentlemen,it's enjoyed doing the things you enjoy.
(08:28):
Time management and multitasking. That's asecret. That's the secret. That's
the secret. So you're you thatmentioned earlier in the interview. You are
from involved and there are obviously withthe traditional how parents are a traditional not
only Simbubble but Africa as a whole. As to what you should do with
your career, how has your parentsHow have your parents reacted to you having
(08:52):
a YouTube video? Have they beensupportive? Have they been against it.
What have you have to face withit? I don't think my Okay,
I think my dad knows I havea YouTube channel, but like I don't
think he knows like what I meanwhen I stay have a YouTube channel and
I'm like, okay, I'm nottrying to be like, okay, brings
(09:15):
my videos because I actually say somesome py revealing things in them. My
mom, my mom watches all myvideos. She would like push my videos,
like, I know, my firstvideo, she like posted it on
a Facebook and I got me allthese like subscribers. Now it's like all
these like forty plus the old womenlike your daughter are so funny. You
(09:37):
are so funny. And I'm like, okay, look at me reaching all
the different age groups. Yeah meso Yeah, my mom is definitely very
supportive. My first sponsor pretty cool. At least, now you know that
your content is actually genuine funny ifyou're coming from all people from all ages,
because you know in in you knowthat age group and then the older
(10:01):
generation the generation is also saying thatyou're finding so that must be reassuring and
knowing that you're on the right path. Yeah, she shows that. At
least my content is like, appreciateit and people look forward to it.
Must be you said earlier that youwere watching your favorite YouTubers and et cetera.
(10:22):
If you had to make a videowith any of your favorite Rose let
me finish the question, Rose,do you say zim YouTubers? No,
I said any of the YouTubers.I didn't say Zim but Nella Rose.
It is definitely Miller Rose or Chunks? Oh my goodness me. Yeah,
(10:46):
isn't my Chunks from two thousand andeight? Or am I saying it wrong?
Um? I mean the guy fromEngland Chunks? But that guy?
What? Yeah? Friends with theyoung Philly would be my Yeah, those
are my answers. Want to anyYouTubers from Zimbabwe that I would want to
(11:09):
collaborate with? Yeah, well I'vereally collaborated with like a lot of my
friends. I'm trying to think,hmmm, who's from Zomo I want to
collaborate with. I don't want tocollaborate with Joela. We haven't been in
a video together even though we're friends. Yeah, I'm gonna just I'm gonna
just go with that. Just whatchant does you say you face from being
(11:31):
from Zimbabwe in regards to in termsof YouTube, in terms of a YouTuber
from zoom in general, because Ican go in general, I can go
in general. We can't type ofthat one. But as a YouTuber,
basically the fact that there's nearly nothingto do in Zimbabwe, So it's very
hard as a lifestyle type of YouTuberto find things that are worth filming,
(11:56):
things that are entertaining to watch andto be honest, because if you film
something boring, it's going to beso boring when you're editing it and you're
just gonna hate it. So Ithink that's literally the biggest challenge, the
biggest change. Yeah, so we'regonna do like a quick series of questions
simply yes, no, and ifyou have like a short explanation you you
(12:20):
can then just give it investigation vibes. I love it. Let's go high
waste, low waists. Yo,I got a poop, but we're going
high wasted all the way. Butlow rise, that's a moment for the
for the other girls, not mepersonally, that's a moment got there.
I mean not for me, butI mean it's banging on you guys.
(12:45):
Enough sneakers were heels sneakers. It'sjust that on but sneakers, sweets,
sweets, and then finally crop toptop people do anyway for those don't listen
(13:09):
to me, thank you Jagels forjoining us. It's definitely been a so
much for having me. Any finalwords, yes, I'll just actually thank
my mom for birthing me. I'mdrinking, but I just want to shout
out to all my yeah, Iwas gonna say fans. My god.
(13:30):
I just want to shout out toall my subscribers, everyone who subscribe to
my channel, everyone who watches myvideo and it's not subtract to my channel.
We kind of have beef because ofthat, but like at least you
watch, just subscribe, But thankyou guys. Alettly where I am today.
When I don't post, I literallyget abused in my d ms.
But it keeps me going, guys, keep on going at it and I
(13:54):
just love all of you guys,So thank you so much, and thank
you for having me on your show. Most welcome, and tex you with
the tune days. Jesus, youhave a great day, Stay safe and goodbye bye
What's up? Everybody? Welcome tothe Chatroom, a podcast dedicated with having
interviews with upcoming stars and influencers ofour generation. Please follow us on Facebook
and Instagram at the chatroom dot tcR and on Twitter at the chatroom underscore
TCR. Also, don't forget tobecome one of our valued Patreon members,
which allows you to unlock exclusive content. Why are also supporting this podcast?
(00:26):
Enjoy the episode. Good afternoon,ladies and gentlemen, Oh, good evening,
good morning spending on what time itis? I'm your host Teff and
welcome to the chatroom. And todaywith me we have Chizza. How are
you doing? I am so fine? How are you fantastic? So for
those of as you I know Chizais Chiezza is a YouTuber currently based in
(00:51):
Capetown, South Africa, and he'soriginally from Zimbabwe, born and raised,
Born and raised. So are youdoing today? At a week? All
this COVID going on? Yeah,guys, all about positivity, you know,
positive vibes, you know, justdon't go out too much, don't
party too much. We'll all makeit and one level one now so that's
(01:12):
insane. So still vibes A side, I don't know what you guys are
tuning over that side saying over thatside, Well, sim slang is actually
destroying. We don't know about all. I don't know what, but other
so we have a YouTube channel,and most people definitely want to know what
(01:33):
made you want to start? Justwatching other people's YouTube channels YouTubers that I
enjoyed watching them really made me wantto start. And I like creating videos
and like editing videos, like Ilike looking at aesthetic things. And I
(01:55):
used to always take like videos andthen just like edit them all together,
like put music over them. AndI thought it was pretty sick. And
I was like, you know what, let me go out and try record
my day. That'll be pretty sicktoo, And I, you know,
I just started to me a longtime, but I started. I literally
(02:15):
always wanted to be a YouTuber.I think before I actually started, like
over a year, I wanted tobe a YouTuber. But I was literally
so scared to start. I wasso scared, and starting is actually the
scariest part. But after that,it's a breeze, Right, What were
you scared of? What we wasscared? The fierce mischieves, It's it's
(02:38):
a really big thing to put yourwhole personal life on the internet because literally
people can judge you from every singleangle on the planet and there's nothing you
can say. There'll always be trollson the Internet and stuff like that.
There's nothing you can say. Solike that's harsh criticism. I was like,
(02:59):
okay, am I ready for alidias? Like literally it was a decision
to just not have my privacy beingprivately more. There's still stuff that I
keep private, but like a lotof my life is on the internet.
People know where I live. They'renot okay, not where I live.
I can't yet, not like myhouse, but they know. They know
(03:23):
what my dog looks like, theyknow my friends look like, they know
what my car looks like, theyknow where I go to school, stuff
like that. So it's just likeactually putting your whole life onto the internet.
So what was the one thing?What was it one thing or a
series of events that made you overcomethat fear of being starting it? To
(03:46):
be honest, I still have thatfear even when I was like editing the
video, like until I actually pressedthe video. I remember I edited the
video and then I was about toupload it and I literally was on a
call with like four of my friends. I'm like, can't I can't do
this. Guys like I can't dothis. I'm not going to do this,
and like it's really just really myfriends that pushed me to start my
(04:10):
two channel. That's great to hear. Shout out to the guy, Shout
out to the family. So we'vebeen following you from like the time it's
still like seven subscribers, and nowwe have over two thousand subscribers, and
I just want to know, familyis so big now, it's so legendary,
it's so growing by the day.And you jumped. You made a
(04:33):
huge jump from from last year Novemberto today, where last year you're trying
to get a thousand subscribers and they'renow within the space of three months your
two grand So what can you tellus about that? My supporters everything is
actually my supporters. Everything is mysubscribers. Everywhere I am because of my
subscribers, how they push out mycontent, the interaction with my videos.
(05:00):
You're commenting on my video and stufflike that. It then boosts like it'll
push YouTube, will push my video. The more people interact and people actually
do really interact my content, whichis so amazing. So I think it's
literally my subscribers who like push meto the reposts, putting me on your
(05:20):
stories and stuff like that. Youknow, it spreads it out. It
like puts my name out there,which is pretty cool, right, How
much that's that's actually you already hearfrom the Horses Mount subscribers, she appreciates
you and there's a legendary. Ohlook at that from the Horses Monks.
You said legendary, not good,not great, legendary not nothing less than
(05:44):
legendary, nothing less all the way. Love to hear you, love to
hear. Summers time would just sayyou put into YouTube from the time you
filmed, from the time you gointo editing until from the idea to the
final post. How long does howmuch time? Much? What percentage of
your time do you put to that? You making YouTube videos actually doesn't take
(06:08):
that long. It's just the editingthat takes a lifetime. But a vlog
it will only take long if you'relike doing like a weekend flog or like
a day block because obviously that's gonnalast a day two days like that's not
only gonna take the video, orif you're doing like it's like videos like
(06:30):
I have a video on my channellike five Ways not to be a Sad
Loser, which took me like aweek because I was like filming every day.
But then usually filming doesn't take thatlong. It's yeah, it's just
editing. When it comes to editingthere by editing, No, it's actually
kind of a pain. So you'rein culinary school, yes, yes,
(06:55):
and that's more of a hands oncourse. That's a lot of Obviously,
everyone thinks that you just spend mostof your time in the kitchen. What
they don't know is you actually alsohave some studying to do on your own.
So, yeah, how do youbalance the study, they're going to
class, the YouTube, the family, the friends, and et cetera.
What would you say is like yoursecret or the formula to doing all that.
(07:19):
It's definitely pretty hard, which iswhy this year I haven't been being
as consistent as I YouTube because nowI'm actually working so much and I only
have like two off days or workto your plate. Oh you have a
full schedule, like yeah, yo, working in a restaurant, dog start
(07:41):
in the morning, end of thenight, or you do sleep when you
get home, then wake up andrepute. Like, it's pretty hard.
And then like my off days willbe like Tuesday and Wednesday, which one
of my friends is going to goand do stuff with me that's like film
movie. So it's like pretty hard. But whenever you're doing a little something
something, just whip up the camera, you know, try and make things
(08:03):
work right. So multitasking is theof the game. Yeah, and you
actually need to plan out your timeprobably because if I only have two days
off, that means I'm filming oneday and editing the other day, So
you're two days office, so you'renot even north day if you think about
it. Yeah, but at leastit's enjoyable, enjoyably I mean the filming,
but you heard ladies and gentlemen,it's enjoyed doing the things you enjoy.
(08:28):
Time management and multitasking. That's asecret. That's the secret. That's
the secret. So you're you thatmentioned earlier in the interview. You are
from involved and there are obviously withthe traditional how parents are a traditional not
only Simbubble but Africa as a whole. As to what you should do with
your career, how has your parentsHow have your parents reacted to you having
(08:52):
a YouTube video? Have they beensupportive? Have they been against it.
What have you have to face withit? I don't think my Okay,
I think my dad knows I havea YouTube channel, but like I don't
think he knows like what I meanwhen I stay have a YouTube channel and
I'm like, okay, I'm nottrying to be like, okay, brings
(09:15):
my videos because I actually say somesome py revealing things in them. My
mom, my mom watches all myvideos. She would like push my videos,
like, I know, my firstvideo, she like posted it on
a Facebook and I got me allthese like subscribers. Now it's like all
these like forty plus the old womenlike your daughter are so funny. You
(09:37):
are so funny. And I'm like, okay, look at me reaching all
the different age groups. Yeah meso Yeah, my mom is definitely very
supportive. My first sponsor pretty cool. At least, now you know that
your content is actually genuine funny ifyou're coming from all people from all ages,
because you know in in you knowthat age group and then the older
(10:01):
generation the generation is also saying thatyou're finding so that must be reassuring and
knowing that you're on the right path. Yeah, she shows that. At
least my content is like, appreciateit and people look forward to it.
Must be you said earlier that youwere watching your favorite YouTubers and et cetera.
(10:22):
If you had to make a videowith any of your favorite Rose let
me finish the question, Rose,do you say zim YouTubers? No,
I said any of the YouTubers.I didn't say Zim but Nella Rose.
It is definitely Miller Rose or Chunks? Oh my goodness me. Yeah,
(10:46):
isn't my Chunks from two thousand andeight? Or am I saying it wrong?
Um? I mean the guy fromEngland Chunks? But that guy?
What? Yeah? Friends with theyoung Philly would be my Yeah, those
are my answers. Want to anyYouTubers from Zimbabwe that I would want to
(11:09):
collaborate with? Yeah, well I'vereally collaborated with like a lot of my
friends. I'm trying to think,hmmm, who's from Zomo I want to
collaborate with. I don't want tocollaborate with Joela. We haven't been in
a video together even though we're friends. Yeah, I'm gonna just I'm gonna
just go with that. Just whatchant does you say you face from being
(11:31):
from Zimbabwe in regards to in termsof YouTube, in terms of a YouTuber
from zoom in general, because Ican go in general, I can go
in general. We can't type ofthat one. But as a YouTuber,
basically the fact that there's nearly nothingto do in Zimbabwe, So it's very
hard as a lifestyle type of YouTuberto find things that are worth filming,
(11:56):
things that are entertaining to watch andto be honest, because if you film
something boring, it's going to beso boring when you're editing it and you're
just gonna hate it. So Ithink that's literally the biggest challenge, the
biggest change. Yeah, so we'regonna do like a quick series of questions
simply yes, no, and ifyou have like a short explanation you you
(12:20):
can then just give it investigation vibes. I love it. Let's go high
waste, low waists. Yo,I got a poop, but we're going
high wasted all the way. Butlow rise, that's a moment for the
for the other girls, not mepersonally, that's a moment got there.
I mean not for me, butI mean it's banging on you guys.
(12:45):
Enough sneakers were heels sneakers. It'sjust that on but sneakers, sweets,
sweets, and then finally crop toptop people do anyway for those don't listen
(13:09):
to me, thank you Jagels forjoining us. It's definitely been a so
much for having me. Any finalwords, yes, I'll just actually thank
my mom for birthing me. I'mdrinking, but I just want to shout
out to all my yeah, Iwas gonna say fans. My god.
(13:30):
I just want to shout out toall my subscribers, everyone who subscribe to
my channel, everyone who watches myvideo and it's not subtract to my channel.
We kind of have beef because ofthat, but like at least you
watch, just subscribe, But thankyou guys. Alettly where I am today.
When I don't post, I literallyget abused in my d ms.
But it keeps me going, guys, keep on going at it and I
(13:54):
just love all of you guys,So thank you so much, and thank
you for having me on your show. Most welcome, and tex you with
the tune days. Jesus, youhave a great day, Stay safe and goodbye bye
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