Denyzee, “diva” of the Web in Quebec (but without the big head) -

Denyzee

  • Denyzee will reach the symbolic mark of two million subscribers to his YouTube channel.

  • The content creator specializes in humorous videos and has even recently started singing with 

    Diva

    .

  • "If I had launched my YouTube channel in France, I would not have been able to make the same kind of videos, my content would have been very different", she remarks in front of 

    20 Minutes

    .

When our interlocutor picks up her phone, six time zones separate Paris from Quebec and the scenery is immediate.

Although she is from Nice, it is not Denyzee's southern French accent that will strike us, but her intonations straight from North America.

It's been eight years since Delphine set down on the other side of the Atlantic and half the time she started on YouTube.

This week, she will exceed the milestone of two million subscribers on her channel.

This nice score simply gives it the title of the most watched channel in Quebec.

His greatest satisfaction?

“Meet people I would never have been able to meet otherwise,” she tells

20 Minutes

.

I find it a chance and a privilege to have enriching and incredible discussions with complete strangers.

"

"Why are people going to follow me?"

"

When she decided to get started, Denyzee looked for a long time for something that could distinguish her from Norman, Cyprien and other Squeezie, whose subscriber count was already at the time between nine and eleven million people.

“Me, the little girl who comes from Nice and who moved to Quebec, what am I going to talk about and why are people going to follow me?

», She wonders then.

She got the idea of ​​being inspired by her own life, she who left alone in North America at the age of 20 with her backpack on her back.

Denyzee begins to make a name for himself by linking videos on Quebec myths, insults of the dialect and expressions of the Canadian province.

“If I had launched my YouTube channel in France, I would not have been able to make the same kind of videos, my content would have been very different.

Would I have been so successful?

I don't know, ”she admits.

Viva la vida de la diva (but not too much)

At the end of January, Delphine launched a new challenge: release her own song and the clip that goes with it.

She then turns to the Kingdom Street group, collaborates with them, records the video and the result is not long in coming.

In one month,

Diva

reached four million views.

The success is not confined only to the platform which saw the birth of the creator of contents since the song is also played on Spotify, Deezer and Apple Music, and this from all over the world.

“I listen to in Japan or Hong Kong.

It may be subscribers who live there but there are still people who listen to it there!

She marvels.

In

Diva

, Denyzee takes on those who put too much importance on digital popularity.

“It's dramatic to have this desire to be recognized and to feel someone through the number of likes or subscribers we can have on the networks,” she says as she receives each day dozens of messages asking him to advertise for such Instagram account or such TikTok user.

Over the meetings she has made since the launch of her channel, the YouTuber claims to have realized the "real suffering" that social networks can cause when they are poorly managed.

“I see a lot of depression and unhappiness associated with this connection that people have with themselves and their own image,” she describes.

Its title is meant to be a bearer of hope: no matter how others look at us, the main thing is to keep a smile and to surround yourself well.

Of the way to go

If Delphine has taken up residence in Quebec, her audience does not however come exclusively from Canada since 73% of her subscribers live in France.

A figure that she explains firstly by the simple demographic reality.

"I realized that I had reached, at one point, the maximum of a potential audience in Quebec because there were not as many people as in French-speaking Europe", decrypts the YouTuber.

9% of its audience therefore lives in Canada, followed by Belgium, Switzerland and Morocco.

Denyzee also points out that his professional situation is not yet fully recognized in La Belle Province.

“Here, it's still very complicated to understand how we can make a living from YouTube.

As there are few creators for whom this is the case, it is not something in which the traditional media are interested, ”she regrets.

For the 29-year-old YouTuber, the difference is even more striking when she travels to France, about six months a year (when the Covid-19 does not put the planet on hiatus).

When she walks on French soil, Delphine tries to collaborate as much as possible with other personalities from the Web, something which is very difficult to achieve at home.

“I find myself 100% alone because there are few designers in Quebec,” she confides.

When the situation allows, Delphine intends to return regularly to Europe and settle in a second home.

Enough to live the life of a diva (almost) everywhere in the world.

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