Gotta say this is impressive, though.. a world where a 16 year old both looks and talks like a 25+ year old is a pretty alien one to me. I'm only glad I'm out of the dating pool! When I was 16, the girls were spotty, wore no or bad make up, and were into screaming over boy bands. It's a different world :-)
I don't think the lesson here is, "Boy, girls today!"
This 16 year old is an outlier, despite her mainstream looks. She has built up her audience to the point that she can attract 450,000 views to a youtube post on shoes, and she has monetized this audience. I don't like a lot about what she represents (teenagers should aspire to $305 custom-made snake skin high heels? ugh) but she is very good at what she does.
When we were kids, there was essentially no way for an ambitious, entrepreneurial, but non-technical 16 year old to do this sort of thing. Viva la internet.
This 16 year old is an outlier, despite her mainstream looks.
Good point, but unless you're trawling social networking sites,the ones plastered over the TV (MTV, 90210, et al) are the only ones we see a ton of :-)
