Molly Templeton (born 25 October 1989), known by her stage name Mememolly (me-me-molly) is a British-Canadian

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and

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. She hosted the

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from July 2009 to July 2011.

Career

Originally from the

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, Templeton started making

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videos in her bedroom when she was 16. After a few years working independently in web video and studying fine art at

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in Vancouver, she went to New York to host, write and produce for the comedic news web show, Rocketboom. In July 2011 she left Rocketboom and was employed by the online entertainment studio

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as Director of Talent & Audience Development, later cofounding the internet marketing agency Everybody at Once. Since October 2019, Templeton has worked for

as the Head of Social Marketing, Operations, & Global Crisis Response. Templeton's ''mememolly'' channel on YouTube was once No. 10 on the all-time most-subscribed list for the UK. As of December 2020, the channel has over hundred thousand subscribers and 48 million video views, and has been inactive since 2013.

Personal life

Templeton was born and raised in

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, England. Since July 2017, she is married to American

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and educational

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Mike Rugnetta. As of 2019, the couple live in an apartment in

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. She has collaborated with him several times on his podcasts, as an interviewee on ''Reasonably Sound'' and as a performer on ''Fun City''. Templeton is an avid

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, and has

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(an extreme aversion to, but not a fear of, certain sounds). Although ceasing to make YouTube videos in 2013 and largely dropping out of the public eye, Templeton maintains a following on other social media platforms, including

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and

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* {{YouTube, u=mememolly, {{PAGENAMEBASE
Mememolly's profile
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Mememolly's profile
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1989 births Living people English video bloggers People from Beaconsfield People from Brooklyn YouTube vloggers English YouTubers Emily Carr University of Art and Design alumni

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