The 72-Year-Old Mexican Grandma Dominating YouTube

Latinometrics tells the story of Doña Ángela, a 72-year-old grandmother who is making a splash on YouTube…

She’s a traditional Abuelita from rural Mexico who decided to share her culture through food.

What’s most mind-blowing: her videos get more views than some of the most recognized cooking figures, including Martha Stewart and Gordon Ramsay.

Doña Ángela currently has 4.25 million subscribers on YouTube and 6.1 million followers on Facebook 📈

One of her most popular videos, with 11 million views…

• From My Ranch to Your Kitchen: Enchiladas the way we make them here in Michoacán…

There’s a Spanish TikTok channel that estimates how much money different YouTubers make, and the estimate for Doña Ángela’s channel was $13.6K per month via YouTube ad revenue 🤑

That was almost 2 years ago, so she’s likely earning even more now.

Back to Latinometrics…

Her channel has become a topic of interest to researchers, one of which included it as part of the “YouTubers Campesinos” tendency. Schools have also used videos of Doña Ángela for language instruction. A Swedish university cited her channel as a means for migrants to reconnect with their culture when away from home.

Translated from another article…

The 72-year-old grandmother prepares her food in the same field kitchen where she has been cooking, throughout her life, delicious stews for her 9 children, 20 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren, while one of her daughters records her with a cell phone.

Notice the similarities between this and the TikTok granddad I featured last week?

Might be time to whip out your phone and start making videos of your grandparents 🤣