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https://i0.wp.com/www.fukuoka-now.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/fn163-in-fukuoka-770.jpg?fit=640%2C427&ssl=1640427Micaela first started making YouTube videos to assure her concerned parents of their teenage daughter’s safety in Japan. “I was living in Kumamoto and I was 18 years old. The intention was to just show them where I live—it’s clean, the weather’s beautiful, here are my friends, they’re not crazy.” Six years, countless more videos and eleven million views later, the entrepreneurial young Canadian is making a comfortable living from her original online content. Dealing in short, sweet snippets of insight into everyday life, Micaela’s success can be attributed to hard work, open-mindedness and an insistent focus on the more humorous side of the Japanese experience. “I made a video about toilets—y’know the ones in the ground—and how they freak me out. The foreign reaction was ‘Ew, that’s gross,’ and the Japanese reaction was ‘Actually, I hate those too!’ I think we can bond over squat toilets, y’know!?” With modelling, advertising and voice-over work also under her belt, there’s no telling what interesting turn Micaela’s career might take next, but one thing’s for sure: she’ll keep us updated on YouTube.