You Tube Sensation: Teen Shopaholic Has More Followers Than Lady Gaga

January 20, 2014

Banking on her: The casualwear chain is hoping that teen girls across America who don't already know her name will soon be wearing t-shirts and backless sweaters that bear the 'Motavator' label.

Bethany Mota from North Carolina is only 18-years-old but thanks to the wild popularity of her videos about shopping she’s more popular online than Vogue magazine and has her own national branded line of clothing and jewelry.

‘Hi. I’m Bethany. I’m a Youtuber,’ she writes on one of her many social media accounts. ‘My viewers are my besties and I love them bunches!’

And those followers love her back–all five million of them.

Bethany is the queen bee of a craze called ‘haul videos’ on YouTube and they’re exactly what they sound like they are.

The teen’s Instagram account, where she posts photos of herself, her cloths and her meticulously decorated bedroom when she isn’t making YouTube videos watched by the hundreds of thousands, has over 2 million followers–more than Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, Glamour, and Cosmo combined.

Nearly five million people follow her YouTube channel. Watch video after the cut…