For #NationalComingOutDay, I'm going to share one of my favorite YouTube trends stories. It's about Coming Out videos. We can start with one of this year's biggest, which is from @JaidenAnimation and features her coming out as aroace (aromantic asexual).
It joins the list of our all-time ten most-viewed Coming Out videos as the first aroace coming out video. The next most-recent entry is NikkieTutorials' in which she came out as trans. When you look at the list of videos, you see a range of sexual orientations and identities. 
And if you look at the videos' content, you see a progression from basic direct-address vlogs to more elaborate productions that reflects the growth, evolution and creative maturity of the creator community. (btw, that was a new chart! We'll update the trends site with it)
Although many of the coming out videos we think of as historical watershed moments featured creators revealing a preference for same-sex relationships, the earliest existing Coming Out video featured someone sharing her identity as a trans woman.
This video, which was uploaded in 2006 to the channel now-known as Life in Transition, is the earliest existing example of a video being uploaded to YouTube with the purpose of coming out to others.
Coming Out videos are now a genre with a massive volume of uploads, but I think it's worth remembering that it all started with one person being brave enough to share their story, and each new Coming Out video continues to be an expression of bravery.
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