Emirichu

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Emirichu
Personal information
Born	(1995-08-27) 27 August 1995 United States
Occupation	Youtube Storytime Animator streamer
Website	emirichu.com
YouTube information
Channels	Emirichu (2011–present)
Years active	2017–present
Subscribers	3.07 million subscribers (February 2022)
Total views	284.74 million views (February 2022)
Play buttons 100,000 subscribers 2018 1,000,000 subscribers 2019

Emirichu (born 27 August 1995) is a South Korean American YouTuber and animator.

Emirichu mainly posts story-time animation videos to her YouTube channel. Most of her videos consist of her telling a story of something that happened in her life while she animates over her voice. Her art is characterized by her anime-style, and is a more simple, cartoonish way of drawing. She sometimes posts collaborative videos where she talks to her guests about certain topics or plays games with her guests. Her most frequent guests are CDawgVA and her current boyfriend, Daidus. She started her YouTube channel with Anamtics, and then made her first story-time animation and uploaded it to her channel in September 2017 titled, "When I Tried to Fight my Middle School Bullies Over a Sketchbook". This was one of her first viral videos and would kick off her YouTube popularity.

Family and Early Life

Emirichu was born in New York to parents of South Korean descent. She is a second-generation immigrant; her parents were born in South Korea. She described her parents as ‘super religious’; her dad is a pastor, and the family attended church together. She is the youngest of three siblings; her two older brothers are named John (nicknamed ‘Sim’), and Josh. John later moved to South Korea and is married, and has two children. In March of 2020 Josh moved back to the United States with his wife and two children. Her parents also moved back to South Korea and are currently living there.

The family later moved to California when she was 15 and attended high school there. Throughout her childhood, she struggled with her Korean identity. She developed an interest in anime and drew manga during this time period. This was what inspired her anime-like illustrations.

She later attended college to pursue teaching and worked part-time as a youth development teacher. Close to her graduation, she realized that she her passions did not truly lie in teaching.

Career

Emirichu started her channel in 2011—however, her first publicly available animated video was in 2017. Since then, her animation videos largely resemble Japanese anime. In contrast to other YouTube storytime animators like Jaiden Animations, her animated videos are largely composed of stills, with little fluid movement. Her cartoon persona wears a black-and-white horizontally striped top with a black skirt, black thigh-high socks and Brown hair.

Emirichu has collaborated with other storytime animators such as TimTom, Wolfychu, ChillyPanda, TheAMaazing, Daidus and CDawgVA. A tour with illymation, GingerPale and Life Noggin had been announced but was later cancelled due to COVID-19.

Personal Life

Emirichu is not religious, in contrast to her parents' beliefs. She had conflicts with her personal beliefs and those of Christianity; for example, she was appalled that a leader at a seminar retreat believed that gay people can only go to heaven if 'they didn't act on their sinful desires'

Emirichu currently resides in California. She has conversational knowledge in Korean. She is currently in a relationship with fellow story-time animation YouTuber Daidus. She is 5'6" (168 centimeters) tall.

References

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