Molly Templeton (born 25 October 1989), known by her stage name Mememolly (me-me-molly) is a British-Canadian
Internet personality
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and
entrepreneur
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. She hosted the
video blog
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Rocketboom
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from July 2009 to July 2011.
Career
Originally from the
United Kingdom
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, Templeton started making
YouTube
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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
Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Emily Carr University of Art + Design (abbreviated as ECU) is a public art university located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The university's campus is located within the Great Northern Way Campus in Strathcona. The university is a co ...
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
My Damn Channel
Omnivision Entertainment (formerly ''My Damn Channel'') is an entertainment website and multichannel network founded to enable comedians, actors, filmmakers, musicians, and brands to co-produce, monetize and distribute original video content. Th ...
as Director of Talent & Audience Development, later cofounding the internet marketing agency Everybody at Once.
Since October 2019, Templeton has worked for
YouTube
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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
Beaconsfield
Beaconsfield ( ) is a market town and civil parish within the unitary authority of Buckinghamshire, England, west-northwest of central London and south-southeast of Aylesbury. Three other towns are within : Gerrards Cross, Amersham and High W ...
, England.
Since July 2017, she is married to American
composer and educational
YouTuber
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Influence
Influe ...
Mike Rugnetta.
As of 2019, the couple live in an apartment in
Brooklyn
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,
New York
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* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
Film and television
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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
cyclist
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, and has
misophonia
Misophonia is a disorder of decreased tolerance to specific sounds or their associated stimuli that has been characterized using different language and methodologies. Reactions to trigger sounds range from anger and annoyance to activating a fi ...
(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
Twitter
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and
Instagram
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.
See also
*
List of YouTube personalities
YouTubers are people mostly known for their work on the video sharing platform YouTube. The following is a list of YouTubers for whom Wikipedia has articles either under their own name or their YouTube channel name. This list excludes people wh ...
References
External links
* {{YouTube, u=mememolly, {{PAGENAMEBASE
Mememolly's profileon
Instagram
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Mememolly's profileon
Twitter
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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