This YouTuber Was Murdered By Her Biggest Fan - The Christina Grimmie story
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Who was Christina Grimmie?
So this influencer is about to get unalived by her own fan. Now the influencer, her name's Christina, and Christina loves to sing. And one day, when she's about 15, her friend convinces her to post a video of her singing a cover of a Hannah Montana song on YouTube. So she does. And to Christina's surprise, pretty quickly the video gets a little traction. Tens of thousands of views. Not bad.
How did Christina's YouTube career begin?
But most importantly, people like it. And they like her. And some of these people, they start sending her requests for her to cover other songs. And so she does. And she posts another and then another. And soon she's posting all these cover songs on YouTube and she starts building up a decent following. And after about two months of this, her followers request that she cover Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On. And so Christina does. And she posts it and it blows the f*** up. And that is when this woman sees it. Her name's Mandy. And Mandy's like, damn, this girl can sing. Here's the thing about Mandy, though. Mandy just happens to be Selena Gomez's mom and her manager.
What role did Selena Gomez's family play in Christina's career?
So Selena Gomez's mom and her stepdad, this guy, At this time, they both manage Selena together. So stepdad, aka Selena's manager, reaches out to Christina and they offer to represent her and soon Christina's got a manager. So then she works with a big vocal coach and she releases an EP and then boom, Selena Gomez asks her to go on tour with her as her opening act. And they actually become really good friends.
And there's Selena Gomez right there.
What achievements did Christina reach in her music career?
There's Selena. And so Christina's star just keeps rising. Her YouTube channel's blowing up, she's getting all kinds of subscribers, and she wins a YouTube singing competition, and she and her family move out to Los Angeles so she can pursue making music full-time. And she goes ahead and makes a full-length album. But then, she's around 19 years old at this point, she auditions for The Voice, the television show. And she gets cast in the show, and Christina comes out on stage, and she absolutely nails it. And she's clearly the fan favorite, and she comes in third place overall, which is just amazing. A few years after that, she's like 22 at this point, she goes out on tour again.
Who was Kevin James and what was his connection to Christina?
And big, big, big thank you to everyone that has been coming out on tour to come see me.
Okay, let me stop you right here, because we'll come back to Christina. But now we got to talk about this guy, Kevin James. Kevin James is 27, he's from Florida, and he doesn't really got a lot going on. He lives with his parents. He works part-time at Best Buy, the Geek Squad. He only has one friend, so he's kind of a loner. He's overweight and balding, which there's nothing wrong with that.
How did Kevin James's obsession with Christina develop?
Who cares? But Kevin James is actually really insecure about it. But then, one day, Kevin James is messing around on YouTube, and he comes across a video of this singer, Christina. And he is blown away by her. She's cool, she's charming, she's charismatic, she's a really talented singer. To him, she's the perfect woman. So Kevin James watches more and more of her videos, and soon enough, he's consumed everything she's ever released. Every vlog, every post, every picture, every tweet, he's seen it. So Kevin James monitors her social media, and over time, he slowly becomes obsessed with her. And he's never showed any interest in girls before, but now that he's discovered Christina, she's all he thinks about.
He's got her pictures up all over his room, he's talking about her at work to all his co-workers, and they're like, you know, this guy's f***ing weird. So clearly he's not just a fan of her work, but he has feelings for her. And those feelings are starting to take an unhealthy turn, because now he believes that she's his soulmate. and that they're destined to be together. So what does he do? Well, he starts working on himself, thinking he's gonna win her over. He changes his diet to a vegan diet and he loses 50 pounds. He gets his teeth whitened. He gets LASIK eye surgery to make his vision better. He goes and gets hair implants to fix the fact that he's balding. So Bro is feeling better about his looks than he ever has.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Who was Christina Grimmie?
0:00–0:25
2
How did Christina's YouTube career begin?
0:25–1:07
3
What role did Selena Gomez's family play in Christina's career?
1:07–1:40
4
What achievements did Christina reach in her music career?
1:40–2:20
5
Who was Kevin James and what was his connection to Christina?
2:20–2:47
6
How did Kevin James's obsession with Christina develop?
2:47–8:03
Speakers
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