Gaming channel earns BMC school student YouTube Creator Award – The Indian Express

Amid the Covid pandemic when schools went online, Ankit Singh, then a 13-year-old student of Shastri Nagar Mumbai Public School (MPS) in Santacruz, created a YouTube Channel on gaming tutorials. Three years on, after crossing 342K subscribers, his channel Ankit Gamerz has won the teenager, the son of a watchman, the YouTube Creator Award – a play button awarded by the service to recognise its most popular channels. As the BMC School Education department felicitated him for the achievement on Tuesday, Ankit, now 16, was happily taken aback to see his teachers congratulating him. “I have mostly been at the receiving end (of scoldings) for being on the phone. My parents would take the phone away from me. I would have to wait until late in the night to play and upload videos,” said Ankit. However, he does not want to blame his parents for forbidding him. “I will not blame them. Which school or parent would not want the child to focus on studies? My neighbours are more than happy for me but my parents are still firm on their stand, asking me to focus on studies and pursue my YouTube channel only during free time,” he said. Ankit
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