Interview: How KREW Rose to Fame With Minecraft YouTube Videos – Insider

The La siblings, from Alberta, Canada, grew up helping their parents run a Vietnamese restaurant. They began making YouTube videos playing Minecraft as a hobby when they got home after work. Now they have 9 million subscribers and have been able to help their parents retire. Loading Something is loading. Before they became YouTube stars, Betty, Kim, Kat, Wenny, and Allen La spent much of their childhood helping their parents run the family’s Vietnamese restaurant in Alberta, Canada.The siblings, who ranged in age from around 13 to 18 when they began their YouTube journey, remember rushing to get get the bus back from school so they could start their shifts, with the older siblings helping grill food and bus tables while the youngest mainly ran around and shyly peeked at customers who were enjoying their meals. Now all in their 20s, the Las told Insider the family struggled a lot in those early years, running several “failing” businesses one at a time to support themselves.  (From left to right): Allen, Kim, Kat, Betty, and Wenny. KREW “It was stressful to juggle between school and work, especially when we didn’t have enough money to pay the bills,” said Wenny, 25, the second-youngest. …
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