Anastasia Sergeyevna Radzinskaya (born January 27, 2014), known online as Like Nastya, is a

Russian-American Russian Americans ( rus, русские американцы, r=russkiye amerikantsy, p= ˈruskʲɪje ɐmʲɪrʲɪˈkant͡sɨ) are Americans of full or partial Russians, Russian ancestry. The term can apply to recent Russian diaspora, Russian imm ...

YouTuber A YouTuber is an online personality and/or influencer who produces videos on the video-sharing platform YouTube, typically posting to their personal YouTube channel. The term was first used in the English language in 2006. Influence Influent ...

. She and her parents, Sergey and Anna Radzinskaya, host several YouTube channels producing original child-oriented stories and roleplays. Her main channel is the 5th most-viewed and 7th most-subscribed channel in the world.

Content

Anastasia's content includes, among other things,

children's songs A children's song may be a nursery rhyme set to music, a song that children invent and share among themselves or a modern creation intended for entertainment, use in the home or education. Although children's songs have been recorded and studied ...

educational entertainment Educational entertainment (also referred to as edutainment) is media designed to educate through entertainment. The term was used as early as 1954 by Walt Disney. Most often it includes content intended to teach but has incidental entertainment ...

, unboxings,

vlogging A video blog or video log, sometimes shortened to vlog (), is a form of blog for which the medium is video. Vlog entries often combine embedded video (or a video link) with supporting text, images, and other metadata. Entries can be recorded in ...

, and roleplays. Her channels are dubbed into German, Arabic, Bangla, French, Portuguese, Hindi, Spanish, Korean, Vietnamese, and Indonesian.

History

Anastasia was born in

Krasnodar Krai Krasnodar Krai (russian: Краснода́рский край, r=Krasnodarsky kray, p=krəsnɐˈdarskʲɪj kraj) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai), located in the North Caucasus region in Southern Russia and administratively a part of t ...

Southern Russia Southern Russia or the South of Russia (russian: Юг России, ''Yug Rossii'') is a colloquial term for the southernmost geographic portion of European Russia generally covering the Southern Federal District and the North Caucasian Federal ...

. She was incorrectly diagnosed with

cerebral palsy Cerebral palsy (CP) is a group of movement disorders that appear in early childhood. Signs and symptoms vary among people and over time, but include poor coordination, stiff muscles, weak muscles, and tremors. There may be problems with sensa ...

, her doctors feared she might never be able to speak. Before starting their channel, Anastasia's mother Anna owned a bridal salon in Krasnodar while her father Sergey owned a small construction company. In 2015, Anastasia's parents sold their companies, and in January 2016, they created their YouTube channel, which grew rapidly from their content. The family relocated to

Miami Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a East Coast of the United States, coastal metropolis and the County seat, county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade C ...

Florida Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to ...

in 2018. Anastasia's parents signed with

multi-channel network A multi-channel network (MCN) is an organization that works with video platforms to offer assistance to a channel owner in areas such as "product, programming, funding, cross-promotion, partner management, digital rights management, monetizati ...

Yoola and social media company Jellysmack. According to ''

Forbes ''Forbes'' () is an American business magazine owned by Integrated Whale Media Investments and the Forbes family. Published eight times a year, it features articles on finance, industry, investing, and marketing topics. ''Forbes'' also re ...

'', Anastasia was "one of the world's fastest-growing creators, thanks to videos in seven languages" in 2019, becoming the third highest-paid YouTuber in the world, with an estimated annual income of $18 million.(₽1 billion) >

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nastya, Like 2014 births Living people People from Krasnodar Russian YouTubers Russian emigrants to the United States Russian children YouTube vloggers Children's entertainers YouTube channels launched in 2016 Russian female YouTubers American female YouTubers American YouTubers