Jenna Marbles

Background

Jenna Nicole Mourey, better known as Jenna Marbles, is a former YouTuber with her channel having around 20 million subscribers. Marbles grew up in Rochester, New York, where she was born. She subsequently relocated to Boston, Massachusetts, where she got a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Suffolk University and a master’s degree in sports psychology and counseling from Boston University. She made a living by bartending, working at a tanning salon, blogging, and nightclub go-go dancing. Marbles began her career the next year with “Barstool Sports,” where she worked as a writer for “StoolLaLa,” the company’s female-oriented website. In 2011, she quit the publication.

“How to Trick People Into Thinking You’re Good Looking,” launched in 2010, was one of the first of Mourey’s videos to acquire traction on the platform, with over 5.3 million views in its first week. In August 2011, “The New York Times” and “ABC News” broadcast her video “How to Avoid Talking to People You Don’t Want to Talk To.” In the “Epic Rap Battles of History” episode “Adam vs. Eve,” Mourey played Eve. She also appeared in “Smosh — The Movie” and “The Annoying Orange, Ridiculousness.” Marbles became the first YouTube personality to have her likeness replicated as a wax figure displayed at Madame Tussauds New York.

Marbles’s boyfriend, Julien Solomita, announced on Twitter on June 26 that the couple’s joint podcast and Twitch streaming will be suspended indefinitely. When Solomita returned to streaming on the joint Twitch channel on July 6, he announced on behalf of both of them that the channel would be transitioning to be solely run under his name, as Mourey wished to remain out of the spotlight.