LaurDIY

Lauren Kobayashi Riihimaki (born: ), better known online as LaurDIY, is a Canadian YouTuber, vlogger, rapper, singer, and actress.
==About==
Lauren started her YouTube career on December 2, 2011. She started making videos about DIY hair and fashion tutorials. To this day, she still does DIYs, but also includes vlogs every Wednesday, songs, clothing hauls, challenges and more. The most popular video on her channel is her song "My Side" that features her ex-boyfriend Alex Wassabi with over 29 million views. Since 2019 she has been dating Jeremy Lewis.
LaurDIY has been nominated for the 2020 tenth annual Streamy Awards in the Fashion & Style category. The Streamy Awards will take place on December 13, 2020.
==Personal life==
Lauren was born in a St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada to Gail and Greg Riihimaki as an only child. She is part Ukrainian, Finnish, and Japanese. She grew up as a very athletic child and was in a lot of camps because her parents worked a lot. She graduated from Ryerson University, and released her first video during her first year of college. 
==Quotes==
*"If you're not smiling, you're doing it wrong!"
*"Creativity means expressing yourself with no rules."
*"No one is you, and that is your superpower."
==Channel milestones==
===Subscriber milestones===
*8 million subscribers: April 9, 2021
===Video view milestones===
*1 billion views: November 4, 2018
==Trivia==
*She has her own HBO Show, Craftopia, which was nominated for an Emmy awardhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2RMo-7VUAQR6XC?format=jpg&name=largehttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2RMo-_VUAAYmDj?format=jpg&name=large
*She often promotes Rosanna Pansino's show Baketopia, calling it Craftopia's sister
*She once collaborated with vspink to talk about her body image and mental healthhttps://twitter.com/VSPINK/status/1392857172502011918
*Her favorite candy is circus peanutshttps://twitter.com/AbrahamIsaac/status/1397392611309096965
*She has dogshttps://twitter.com/laurDIY/status/1390330428742115329 named Moose,https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2bjq_LVIAAkgax?format=jpg&name=large Bella and Stormhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/Evq09aNVcAEwTqs?format=jpg&name=large
*Her dog and her mom share their birthdayhttps://twitter.com/laurDIY/status/1387875067174932480
*She likes the game Candy Crush even though it is old
*She is allergic to cats
*If your a fan of her, you can apply to be in her showhttps://twitter.com/laurDIY/status/1372276215961190401
*She didn't want to give off the impression that she had a 'perfect' life, so she privated over 500 videos in 2021
*She appeared on A Little Late with Lilly Singh,https://twitter.com/laurDIY/status/1360316608208539648 and also participated in Joey Graceffa's Escape the Night series 
*On the 4th of April, 2021, she got the Pfizer vaccinehttps://twitter.com/laurDIY/status/1378479339503714305/photo/1
*She suffers from anxiety disorderhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUSP1HWsJC4
==Gallery==
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Screenshot 2018-08-05 at 4.29.16 PM.png|LaurDIY from Joey Graceffa´s Escape The Night
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Laurdiy-18.jpg|Her HBO Show, Craftopia
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Laurdiyselfie-7.jpg|Moose, her dog
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Laurdiyselfie-15.jpg|thumb|Plush toy of her dog, Moose
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==References==
Category:Vlogging YouTubers
Category:Music YouTubers
Category:Canadian YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2011
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