Chinese streamer Viya cracks TIME\u2019s 100 Most Influential for 2021 YouTube, Hangzhou ChinaStreamers have officially made it, as Chinese live-streamer, Huang \u2018Viya\u2019 Wei cracked TIME\u2019s 100 Most Influential People of 2021 list \u2014 a testament to the industry\u2019s rise, but mostly to her prowess as a businesswoman, entertainer, and philanthropist. Viya isn\u2019t your typical Twitch live streamer. And not just because she doesn\u2019t stream on Twitch. The 36-year-old streams on Taobao and is known for ecommerce broadcasts, during which she\u2019s sold everything from noodles to\u2026 a $6 million rocket. Yes, you read that right: a $6 million rocket. While Bloomberg\u2019s Allen Wan calls her \u201ca cross between Martha Stewart and Kim Kardashian,\u201d TIME has honored Viya in the 2021 Most Influential 100 list for her successes in both business and philanthropy. As explained in the YouTube video above, Viya raised around $32 million for Wuhan in 2020 with a fundraising live stream. And this isn\u2019t a one-off either, as explained in TIME\u2019s profile written by Miranda Kerr. Among Viya\u2019s other charitable efforts, Kerr described over $300,000 raised for Red Cross following 2021 floods in China, as well as donations to help build 18 schools in rural China. Summing up her feelings about the streamer, Kerr explained that she is \u201cdeeply inspired by both [Viya\u2019s] impact and her down-to-earth spirit.\u201d At this point, Viya\u2019s not just a streamer anymore, with additional accolades including boosting tourism to Hangzhou. As far as a streamer though, she\u2019s set a different standard. Selling rockets to millionaires is one thing, but her streams are far from exclusive \u2014 as she regularly recommends things like cosmetics and food. Her audience has only grown over the years, hitting numbers like 36 million viewers in 2020, according to a Bloomberg report. That same Bloomberg piece described Viya\u2019s streams as \u201cpart variety show, part infomercial, part group chat.\u201d One could say she\u2019s like the hyper-successful, hyper-charitable \u201cfinal boss\u201d of Twitch\u2019s Just Chatting section. Whatever analogy you choose, it\u2019s got to be pretty cool to see a streamer recognized on a list with major cultural and business icons like Lil Nas X and Elon Musk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chinese streamer Viya cracks TIME\u2019s 100 Most Influential for 2021 YouTube, Hangzhou ChinaStreamers have officially made it, as Chinese live-streamer, Huang \u2018Viya\u2019 Wei cracked TIME\u2019s 100 Most Influential People of 2021 list \u2014 a testament to the industry\u2019s rise, but mostly to her prowess as a businesswoman, entertainer, and philanthropist. Viya isn\u2019t your typical Twitch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}