These simple talks with creators in front of a webcam proved to many that there were others out there just like them. For the early coming out videos, the nature of YouTube as a public platform made coming out more than a milestone for the creator but offered the LGBTQ community something it definitely needed- visibility.
After over a decade, the channel only has fourteen thousand subscribers, and the pioneering video has less than 100,000 views, but it started the trend of creators using YouTube to come out and be sources for people struggling with their gender identity and/or sexuality. The reasons for her video were not just to come out to her family and friends but to explain that she would be documenting her transition from male to female to serve as a source of support and knowledge for others seeking to transition. In August of 2006, French-Canadian YouTuber TG15 announced that she was transgender in a YouTube video. The first coming out video appeared only a year after YouTube's inception.
