Michelle Khare
Michelle Khare (born August 10, 1992) is an Indian-American YouTuber, television host, actress and a former professional cyclist. She is best known for her YouTube show Challenge Accepted and HBO Max's "Karma". Career. Khare attended Dartmouth College in a mixed subject study in Digital Media and Technology. During her studies, she interned at a variety of high profile companies including Google, DreamWorks Animation, and Carousel Productions. Road Cycling. While living in Los Angeles for her internships, Khare began road and mountain cycling recreationally. She went on to join the Dartmouth Cycling Team and win US U23  Criterium nationals in 2014. She joined the BMW Women’s Professional Team where she trained and raced professionally for the 2014-2015 season. YouTube and Buzzfeed. Khare credits her younger sister inspiring her to start a YouTube channel. As she describes her sister's words: "If you want to do entertainment, you should make a YouTube channel. And you should do it about something that nobody else can do: cycling comedy." After graduation in 2014, Khare applied for an opening to be a full-time content producer at BuzzFeed. She considers her YouTube channel and early videos to have helped  in getting the position at BuzzFeed Video. While working at Buzzfeed there were heavy restrictions on content creators on their own channels because of potential conflict of interest, so her own channel remained dormant. While working at Buzzfeed she continued her cycling career and incorporated it into her content, focusing on exploring health and wellness. After she stopped cycling professionally she was able to begin partaking in extreme physical challenges. When she left Buzzfeed in 2016, she began focusing on her own channel again. Her most popular series is "Challenge Accepted", where she tries out grueling training regimens for various  professions. Her channel has 2.55 million subscribers as of April 2022. In Late 2019, Khare produced a comedic take on the internet phenomenon, started by YouTube, to create "Rewinds" of the year that recapture the essence of that particular year. Known as YouTube Rewinds, Khare set herself the challenge of producing a Broadway musical style recap of the year in six weeks. The final product was well received, prompting her to attempt a similar production in 2020, once again adapting the events of the year into a musical form. With lyrics by Steve Greist and music by Alex Winkler, this  video launched on December 12, 2020. However, this video was met with mixed to negative reviews, with some lambasting it as "cringe." Further negativity was drawn due to the portrayal of YouTube personality Jenna Marbles, who quit the platform during the year, following a series of controversies regarding her past statements. Fans believed that the act mocked her and as a result, the video was set to private hours later. The video, especially the part portraying the popular online video game "Among Us", has been mocked and ridiculed extensively. Television. She is a host of the children's competition program  Karma that was released on the HBO Max streaming platform on June 18, 2020. Personal life. Khare grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana. Her father is Indian-American. She has one sister, Madeline, born in 1996. She is engaged to longtime creative partner Garrett Kennell.