Michelle Ezarik

Justine Ezarik (born March 20, 1984) is an American YouTuber.

She is best known as IJustine, with over one billion views on her YouTube channel.

She gained attention as a lifecaster who communicated directly with her millions of viewers on her Justin.tv channel, IJustine.tv.

She acquired notability in roles variously described as a "lifecasting star", a "new media star", or one of the Internet's most popular lifecasters.

She posts videos on her main channel IJustine.

She attended Bentworth High School, in Washington County, Pennsylvania, graduating in 2002.

Ezarik has two younger sisters, Breanne and Jenna.

After graduating from the Pittsburgh Technical Institute in 2004, Ezarik landed several jobs in graphic design and video editing before starting her own business.

In December 2006, she was named one of five finalists in the "Yahoo! Talent Show", a Yahoo!-sponsored competition for best online videos.

Ezarik was known for her "300-page iPhone bill" which followed the first month of service after the introduction of the first iPhone in 2007.

The viral video of her review earned her international attention.

Ezarik was ranked among the top 1000 Twitter users in the world with over 1.8 million followers.

Ezarik had starred on the YouTube comedy series Annoying Orange, as Orange's love interest Passion Fruit.

She played a photojournalist covering a bank robbery in downtown Pittsburgh on the television series The Kill Point from Spike TV, which starred John Leguizamo and Donnie Wahlberg; it was filmed in May 2007.

In 2007, she was an occasional co-host and panel member on MacBreak and MacBreak Weekly with Leo Laporte.

Ezarik appeared live on the Internet through the use of a wireless webcam and microphone on her own IJustine lifecasting channel on Justin Kan's Justin.tv, where she began transmitting her life via the Internet on May 29, 2007.

She was never paid for any of this volunteer work on Kan's channel as a beta-tester.

Her reality-video blog (vlog) was the first one launched on Justin.tv.

Kan had been encouraged by fans and followers to allow someone else to make a guest appearance on his lifecasting channel.

At first Ezarik was considering producing a video series for the technology audience because they had been the most captive audience for online video series.

She stated that she did not intend to broadcast what she considers private moments, noting "That shouldn't be a problem. I am going to try as much as I can to do 24/7."

When the iPhone debuted in June 2007, Ezarik covered the device's debut at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota a suburb south of Minneapolis.

She had been invited by a technology evangelist to film her Internet TV show at the mall instead of covering its debut at the Shadyside Apple store as she had originally planned.

She covered the July 22, 2007, "The Kill Point" series premiere party live on her lifecast video stream.

Ezarik was cited as being one of the website's most popular lifecasters in the October 2007 issues of both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

In August 2007, she created the "300-page iPhone bill" video and uploaded it to the video sharing site YouTube, where the video quickly became an Internet meme.

She also uploaded it to some other video sharing sites.

Stories of unexpected billing issues began to circulate in blogs and the technical press after the Apple iPhone's heavily advertised and anticipated release, but this video clip brought the voluminous bills to the attention of the mass media.

Ten days after its initial posting, the video had been viewed more than 2 million times on the Internet, and received international news coverage.

The video was later reported to have reached over 8 million total views as of December 2007.

The video earned Ezarik a $5,000 payout from the video hosting service Revver.

Ezarik was also featured in the August 28, 2007 weekly installment of Kevin Sites' People of the Web series on Yahoo! News along with Justin Kan, the creator of Justin.TV.

Sites said she was "the star of this network so far," and said "she has model good looks and easy cyber savvyness that attracts both technophiles and casual users alike."

The final cut of the interview video included footage from the live web cast of the interview showing Ezarik's webcam viewpoint.

In 2016, she was an advisor to Arnold Schwarzenegger on the reality competition series The New Celebrity Apprentice.

Her television acting credits include guest appearances on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Criminal Minds, The Bold and the Beautiful, and The Vampire Diaries.

Ezarik also appeared as a main character on the first and fourth seasons of the YouTube Premium murder-mystery reality series Escape the Night.

Justine reviewed a variety of tech devices, but particularly preferred reviewing Apple products such as iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks.

She has been a winner of a Webby Award and 2 Streamy Awards.

Justine Ezarik was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the oldest daughter of the late Michelle Ezarik, a physical education teacher, and Steve Ezarik, a coal miner of Slovak descent.