Why JatieVlogs is Shifting Youtube Content material to Extra Than Simply Pranks (Unique)

Katie Brueckner, previously Betzing, posted her first YouTube video in 2013, when she was 15. New to the positioning, her first add was a tutorial on the best way to make galaxy print sneakers utilizing paint. Brueckner constructed a following as she started posting persistently, sharing make-up movies, relationship updates and a glimpse into her day by day life. In 2018, she hit 1 million followers.

Brueckner tells PEOPLE completely that she all the time hoped to be a optimistic affect on her loyal followers.

“I felt like I used to be like an enormous sister to all these women, all the time making an attempt to present them good recommendation. I all the time take it very critically, making an attempt to be a great position mannequin,” she says.

“I all the time took that position fairly critically. I like when folks say, ‘I’ve watched you since earlier than Josh,’ as a result of I feel that is so cool that somebody has cared sufficient about my life to need to proceed to assist me and for that lengthy,” she provides.

A couple of years into her YouTube journey, the content material creator launched her followers to her then-boyfriend, Josh Brueckner. The 2 began relationship in 2018, and Katie’s followers rapidly fell in love with their enjoyable dynamic.

Collectively, they shaped JatieVlogs, posting their first video that very same yr. They might typically put up prank movies collectively, pretending to cheat on one another, spinning little white lies, and staging awkward moments for thousands and thousands of views. Their shared account now has over 3 million followers.

Their hottest video got here in 2019 when Josh proposed to Katie, amassing over 10 million views. Their second-most-viewed video, titled “Picked up my girlfriend in an Uber underneath disguise,” has 7.3 million views.

Over time, their content material has grow to be extra severe, focusing much less on elaborate pranks and extra on their on a regular basis lives. They doc their journeys, dates, and main milestones of their relationships, resembling their March 2021 wedding ceremony.

“We used to do much more pranks with one another. As we have gotten older, our content material has undoubtedly switched into extra household content material now that now we have a child in our life,” Katie says.

They’d their first daughter, Skye, on Sept. 5, 2023. In February 2024, they revealed they have been anticipating their second daughter, who’s due in late August.

Followers can comply with their journey to turning into mother and father of two on their YouTube channel, the place additionally they shared Skye’s beginning. Nonetheless, those that need to know the identify are going to have to attend till after their new daughter is born. 

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Regardless of beginning out as pranksters, the Brueckners hope that their followers proceed to see how genuine their relationship is. 

“I might find it irresistible if folks might see me and suppose, ‘Oh, wow. This can be a real couple who simply love one another, love spending time with one another,'” Katie says.

“We’re nonetheless the identical couple, however now it is seeing the place our life went 5 or 10 years later, with youngsters, and we’re displaying what it seems to be prefer to be in a wholesome relationship with youngsters and to have a dad who’s so concerned in his youngsters’ lives.”

Josh agrees that it has been enjoyable having a group to develop and evolve with.

“It is cool when folks, again then, after we first began relationship, noticed our content material, and noticed how a lot we beloved one another and the way a lot we acquired alongside,” Josh shares. “I might need them to come back again years later and see now we have a child. I might need them to look as much as our relationship in a means.” 

As for the pranks that initially acquired them thousands and thousands of views, that chapter isn’t absolutely closed for them. The Brueckners say they’ll slowly introduce pranks to their youngsters, however ones which can be light-hearted and enjoyable, much like ones their households pulled on them. 

“I undoubtedly like doing pranks right here and there. It relies upon,” Josh says. “Now that I am older and with a child, like I really feel like, extra delicate after you have a child. However even to today, we nonetheless like to drag little pranks on one another. We’re not filming each single one however now we have a great time with it.”