“ | DEEELICIOUS! | ” |
―AzzyLand's catchphrase |
Azra "Azzy" Bajrami (born: February 23, 1991citation needed], better known online as AzzyLand, is a Canadian YouTuber, gamer, rapper, singer, and philanthropist who has donated $1,174,259 of her personal money to date.[1][2][3][4][5][6] She was acknowledged by YouTube as their top 10 most-viewed YouTuber globally, with 1.9 billion views in 2019. She was the only female on that list making her the most viewed female creator on the platform.
)[Azzy grew up below the poverty line in project/public housing to immigrant parents.[7] In spite of their difficult financial situation Azzy says they were "rich in love" and she had a happy childhood. [8] In 2016 Azzy had a spinal injury that crippled her. She was unable to walk for 3 months and was in constant chronic pain. But thankfully through a lot of hard work and training she was able to overcome this injury and wants to help others who may be facing similar situations. [9] While not much else is known about Azzy's life, old Q&A videos from her channel state that she has been a gamer since her early childhood days. She is known for her art content[10], gaming content[11], reaction videos[12], fashion[13] and vlogs[14]. Her goal is to inspire positive change and encourage people to be kind to one another.
Azzy was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[citation needed]
History
Azzy first gained international renown as a cosplayer.[15] Azzy would spend months making incredibly intricate costumes by hand at a time when this wasn't very common.[16] This lead to her being "discovered" and got her an invite to showcase her work on national television.[17] This sparked her being invited to attend conventions all around the world as an official cosplay guest, meeting fans, speaking at panels and growing a following. Her cosplay got Azzy a lot of attention worldwide and landed her an appearance on a popular YouTube channel. [citation needed]
At this interview, she got offered a full-time job as the co-host on a popular celebrity biography YouTube channel. Her job as a host led her to realize her passion and love for YouTube, and thus, she started making YouTube content on the side. Not having enough time between studying to become a doctor, traveling the world for her cosplay and hosting on YouTube, Azzy would post irregularly on her own channel. It wasn't until she took a year off from medical school and started to focus all her energy on creating videos did her channel take off.[citation needed]
Education
Azzy completed University with a double Honors Degree in the Bachelor of Sciences, specifically both Chemistry and Biology. Her goal has always been to help others so she continued her education planning to become a doctor. Her plan fell short because she emotionally had a hard time coping with the nature of the job due to being an extreme empath and being unable to detach herself from the pain of others. She claims to feel that she still is able to feel fulfilled and help others in a different way now on youtube. At first that decision to drop out of medical school was very disappointing to her parents. [citation needed]
Charity work
To date Azzyland has helped raise over $9,500,000 and donated around $140,000 of her personal money to a plethora of different causes outlined below :
- Sickkids hospital thanked Azzy for her very generous donation[3] and recognized her as one of their Donors who gave $1Million+ during their Catalyst and Groundbreaker periods of the campaign, April 2014 to December 2020. [1] The National Post featured Azzy in their newspaper to acknowledge her large donation.[1] Azzy did not publicly announce her $1Million donation. However she does announce her $100k donation at a different date which was made out to the same hospital.[2]
- On Christmas 2021 Azzy donated $100,000 USD[2] and announced that she started her very own charity foundation to support SickKids; a children’s hospital that helps children experiencing things like Cancer and other illnesses. The foundation can be found here for anyone who would like to contribute.
- Azzylands donation of $8205 can be seen as the top donor on Kiaras GoFundMe page for her fight against cancer. [18][9]
- Once again Azzy didnt publicly annouced her donation to #Teamseas but a $25,000 USD donation is shown next to her name[5]
- Azzy joined forces with Extra Life in 2020 to host her very own charity stream fundraising party. The donations received went towards SickKids Foundation through the Children’s Hospitals COVID-19 Impact Fund. Azzy raised $26,251 USD and donated $13,055 USD personally. [19]
- Azzy made a contribution of $9999 to the Black Lives Matter Fund in 2020. [20]
- Azzy spends every christmas organizing a night for her and her girlfriends to wrap gifts Azzy has bought, and to hand write encouraging notes to go along with each gift. They the gifts are taken and given out at women's shelters in Toronto.[21]
- $8.5 Million was raised for CMNHospitals with Azzys help. Extra Life's recap video of the event opens with Azzy and her contibutions can be seen on their instagram. [22]
- Azzy was thanked by Click on Twitter for making a #FightTheFires donation and contributed $10,000 to the charity to help the devastating Australian Wildfires in 2020. [23]
- Azzy didn’t publicly announce her donation, but a #TeamTrees donation bearing her name shows the YouTuber contributing $10,000 to the charity in 2019.[24]
- Azzy donated $2000 to Stream for Starlight to help hospitalized children. [25]
- Azzy matched the donation of $6000 to the Make-A-Wish 2018 Rope for Hope Charity to help sick kids where the charity had her rapple down the side of a skyscrapper in Toronto to raise money.[citation needed]
LGBTQ Parade Advocacy
On July 10th 2024 Cringe Panda exposed Azzyland for advocating for LQBTQ "Pride" Parades on her social media, which was seen as very controversial due to the amount of children there seeing naked adults and some of them engaging in sexual acts. [26]
As shown in the Cringe Panda video many people on Azzyland's Instragram expressed that they were uncomfortable with such advocacy from a child creator and were considering unfollowing her - however Azzyland told them that she didn't care if they unfollow her.
Quotes
- "Delicious!"[citation needed]
- "WHO RAISED YOU?!"[citation needed]
- "Stay awesome stay sweet and don’t forget to be nice to each other bye bye!"[citation needed]
- "People have feelings, people are people!"[citation needed]
Channel milestones
Note: The following dates are according to Social Blade. Dates may vary by one or two days due to differences in time zones.
Subscriber milestones
- 1 million subscribers: May 26, 2017[citation needed]
- 2 million subscribers: November 17, 2017[citation needed]
- 3 million subscribers: February 10, 2018[citation needed]
- 4 million subscribers: June 20, 2018[citation needed]
- 5 million subscribers: September 1, 2018[citation needed]
- 6 million subscribers: November 23, 2018[citation needed]
- 7 million subscribers: February 2, 2019[citation needed]
- 8 million subscribers: March 19, 2019[citation needed]
- 9 million subscribers: May 14, 2019[citation needed]
- 10 million subscribers: August 25, 2019[citation needed]
- 11 million subscribers: January 17, 2020[citation needed]
- 12 million subscribers: May 6, 2020[citation needed]
- 13 million subscribers: October 21, 2020[citation needed]
Video view milestones
- 1 billion views: June 20, 2018[citation needed]
- 2 billion views: February 10, 2019[citation needed]
- 3 billion views: July 5, 2019[citation needed]
- 4 billion views: January 1, 2020[citation needed]
- 4.5 billion views: April 1, 2020[citation needed]
- 5 billion views: June 5, 2020[citation needed]
Trivia
- On October 21, 2020, Kim Kardashian revealed in an interview that her and her daughter, North watch Azzy all the time and that Azzyland is the family's favorite YouTuber and has some Azzyland merch. [27] However Kim later clarified that it is actually SSSniperwolf who is their favourite youtuber, they got confused due to how Azzy started using the same style as SSSniperwolf, something which has also happened many other kids.
- Azzy has collaborated with Doja Cat playing video games together. They seem to be friends. [28]
- She has collaborated with DJ Marshmello as seen on her Instagram.[29]
- Her first name Azra is the name of Bosnian origin meaning purity. Her last name, however, is an Albanian name. Bajrami in Albanian means Celebration.
- Azzy has a younger sister, yet we know very little info about her as well as the rest of her family. From what we know, her parents are Albanian immigrants from North Macedonia.[citation needed]
- Azzy is a PADI certified scuba diver.[citation needed]
- Azzy is a very talented artist who can paint on a high level of skill. Also, as a kid her dream was to become an artist but her parents weren't supportive of this dream[citation needed]
- In celebration of reaching one million subscribers, Azzy posted a video in which she pretended to run around Amsterdam naked. However, Azzy claims in the description of the video that it was a parody and that she wasn't actually nude, she was wearing a dress the same color of her skin and added a pixel effect to it for entertainment purposes and as a social experiment to see how people would react.[citation needed]
- She starred in an episode in Season 2 of My 90-Year-Old Roommate back in 2016.[citation needed]
- She also made her own high production rap music video with Big Nem called “Money”. She claimed to have done it to push herself out of her comfort zone by doing something that she's insecure about. [30]
- She is apparently a very shy and quiet person, as stated by her friend and fellow YouTuber, Gloom, who states that her music video was actually a "big step for her."[citation needed]
- She has collaborated with:
- singer Doja Cat [28] ,
- DJ Marshmello [29],
- actor Pierson Fodé[31],
- artist Callen Schaub[32][33],
- and YouTubers Gloom[34], Penguinz0[35], Haley Kalil[36], Preston[37] , Brianna[30], , How To Basic[38] , Mr Beast[39] , Charlotte Dobre[40], LaurenzSide[41], Markiplier[42] , Jelly[43], Stephen Sharer[44] Reaction Time[45], Infinite Lists, IHasCupquake[46], DanTDM[47], Caylus [48] , Kiera Bridget [49] , Dang Matt Smith[50] , Blair Walnuts[51] , Oompaville[52] [53] , Kwebbelkop[54] , Rebecca Felgate , Brennen Taylor[55], Leah Ashe , IamSanna
- On February 29, 2020, fellow YouTuber Kwebbelkop announced that they broke up after 3.5 years of dating and said, "I have nothing but love and respect for this beautiful, smart, and caring woman. Please respect our privacy. Thank you." [56]
Gallery
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://epaper.nationalpost.com/national-post-latest-edition/20230429/page/12 National Post listed Azzyland as a donor who gave $1M+ during Sick Kids Catalyst and Groundbreaker periods of the campaign, April 2014 to December 2020. Donors listed with an asterisk (*) as seen at the bottom of list are confirmed $1M+ donors. Considering Azzyland had not announced her charity until after those dates it is confirming that the contribution came from Azzyland's own funds, as the foundation had not been announced to the public prior to that moment and fans were unable to contribute yet.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUo9pSSsluo A video on YouTube where Azzyland shares exciting news about her philanthropic efforts. In the video, she announces a donation of $100,000 to a renowned children's hospital. Alongside this, she reveals the initiation of her own charitable foundation, which is set to collaborate with the hospital's fundraising arm to support their ongoing work
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://x.com/sickkids/status/1475843822055825409?s=20 Twitter post by SickKids Hospital linking Azzyland’s YouTube video that announces her $100,000 donation and thanking her for her support & generosity. Her foundation will support other causes important to Azzy like: Environment and sustainability, Emergency efforts, Not-for-profits committed to equity, and diversity & inclusion.
- ↑ https://www.sickkidsfoundation.com/ecom/full/downloads/0121-025-Groundbreaker-Catalyst-Donor-GM-COMBINED150dpi.pdf Donors who gave $1M+ during Sick Kids Catalyst and Groundbreaker periods of the campaign, April 2014 to December 2020 are listed with an asterisk (*) as seen at the bottom of the Hospital document. An asterick can be seen next to "Azzyland Foundation*. Considering Azzyland had not announced her charity until after those dates it indicates that the contribution came from Azzyland's own funds, as the foundation had not been announced to the public prior to that moment.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 https://teamseas.org/search-donors/?team_name=AZZYLAND Azzy didnt publicly announce her donation to #Teamseas but a $25,000 USD donation is shown next to her name with the message: "Donating on behalf of all ocean life...including/especially mermaids"
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17884850269243007/ Azzylands Instagram stories show the following charity work: -Slide 1: Make a wish donation -Slides 2-7: Christmas gifts for woman and children in women shelters -Slides 8-11: Azzyland surprising fans with Christmas gifts -Slides 12-13: #FightTheFires donation and contributed $10,000 to the charity to help the devastating Australian Wildfires in 2020 -Slides 14-15: A fundraising party for the Extra Life charity, organized and hosted by Azzyland. This individual contributed a personal donation of $13,055 USD to the cause. -Slides 16-19: Contribution of $9999 to the Black Lives Matter Fund in 2020 -Slide 20: Sickkids hospital thanking Azzy for her personal donation of $100,000 -Slides 21-22: Azzyland attempted to auction a bathtub of candy for charity -Slide 23: Fulfilling a make a wish patients wish.
- ↑ https://youtu.be/GUo9pSSsluo?t=6
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Go1XTHIXH0
- ↑ https://youtu.be/9MyAl0CrEYk?t=284
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tu2FFqk93Q&list=PLk_2g8L0o5r4doM7q26KaENa7y8GXyfGS&index=1
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-EpRCLIBcA&list=PLk_2g8L0o5r4P52ZDMlMqpdlQVaWgxR_o
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ9pN6010H8&list=PLk_2g8L0o5r48OqZg53Soa9T1m4vLtOC9
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MA_3SVCCqs&list=PLk_2g8L0o5r4g2X-v6No-R8njs3nQG6_m
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STSiw4pf7jw&list=PLk_2g8L0o5r7w9cWwYLshDqV1Sn1g901o
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/azzyland/p/BAk9QNwxyfU/?utm_medium=copy_link
- ↑
[1] Azzyland wearing the League of Legends cosplay that took her 3 weeks to make by hand.
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtwWn14blW8
- ↑ https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-sarah-and-mishyia-through-rough-times/topdonations
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RM6h1ltYHQ
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17884850269243007/
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17884850269243007/
- ↑ https://x.com/ExtraLife4Kids/status/1722362967537361004?s=20
- ↑ https://x.com/clickmedia_/status/1217186971971227648?s=46&t=DrvH84V9LXEtRswrcygOFA
- ↑ https://teamtrees.org/search?q=azzyland
- ↑ https://twitter.com/AzzyLand/status/1300853126749192192/photo/1
- ↑ The Children's YouTuber Who Sided With Satan: The AzzyLand Deception [2]
- ↑
- ↑ 28.0 28.1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-EpRCLIBcA
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 https://www.instagram.com/p/BtyGninlIew/?utm_medium=copy_link
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzk2RVdCP1w
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1a9Ed4UQFI
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRYZ-OEqdBA
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CDhiiIWlvjd/?utm_medium=copy_link
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqlfQUholnE
- ↑ [3] Played "Among Us" together as an imposter duo, Unfortunately Azzy was not on the same page as Penguinz0 and she lead him to his demise
- ↑ [4]
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RM6h1ltYHQ
- ↑ https://youtu.be/JSXGagNzNLw?t=532
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUa1YayrrXg&t=6s
- ↑ [5]
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAjdwFw3MRg
- ↑ [6]
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOWUp-TKcTc
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joe1ad_Dxa
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCKHMwLYmxk
- ↑ [7]
- ↑ [8]
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYcPdqgwppE
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YmNlJNo5qk
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4q2YsFzen8
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaH5G28hmPA
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXv1WIYZM1s
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLqOeMqz7B8
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITuVLdStn_g
- ↑ https://www.tiktok.com/@azzyland/video/6799367856535457029?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1&lang=en
- ↑
https://twitter.com/kwebbelkop/status/1233773681526091778?lang=en