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YouTube creator (Aayu and Pihu Show) · INDIA

Prakriti Kalra (Pihu)

Elder sister and co-star of the Aayu and Pihu Show, the Kota family’s Hindi children’s YouTube channel launched in May 2017; Scroll (November 2018) records her at 11, the channel’s turn to Hindi moral stories “made by kids and for kids”, and her central role in its then-biggest video, Ek Jhooth. Channel milestones (Silver Play Button, June 2018; six lakh subscribers, September 2018; Diamond Play Button, November 2020) are channel achievements shared with her brother Aayu — a separate record — and are labelled as such.

Aged 11 in November 2018 coverage (Scroll)

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Prakriti Kalra (Pihu) holding a foil balloon letter “P”, from the About page of the Aayu and Pihu Show official website
Pihu with a balloon letter “P” — the portrait graphic published beside her own introduction on the Aayu and Pihu Show’s official website. The website graphic is a designed collage; her mother is partially visible in its background.
Image source ↗ · Aayu and Pihu Show (official website)
Source photograph · credit and provenance below

BEHIND THE RESULT

A family channel

When Piyush Kalra started the Aayu and Pihu Show on YouTube in May 2017, the channel had two young stars: his five-year-old son Aayu and his 11-year-old daughter Pihu. Scroll’s November 2018 Children’s Day report describes Pihu — full name Prakriti Kalra — as the elder half of what became one of India’s best-known Hindi children’s channels, made by a family in Kota.

Stories made by kids, for kids

The channel’s turning point, Scroll records, was Hindi moral stories “made by kids and for kids”. Its most popular video at the time, Ek Jhooth, had over 11 million views, and its story turns on Pihu’s character getting into trouble for telling a lie. Alongside the stories, the siblings made challenge videos; Pihu told Scroll her favourite was a challenge eating raw vegetables with Aayu. The children contributed off screen too — their father said they helped finalise thumbnails and add their own flavour to the scripts. By June 2018 the channel had crossed one lakh subscribers, earning YouTube’s Silver Play Button, and by September 2018 it had six lakh.

A spark to explore

On the family’s own website, Pihu introduces herself in her own words: “Hi, I am Prakriti the CTO (Chief Teenage Officer) of our house.” The same site records that the channel went on to receive YouTube’s Diamond Play Button for ten million subscribers in November 2020 — a channel milestone, shared with her brother; this story is Pihu’s own, and Aayu’s is told separately. Reporting on Pihu individually is limited — most coverage treats the siblings together — and no age beyond Scroll’s dated 2018 report is asserted. Pihu acted in stories that taught children not to lie — can a funny video teach a serious lesson better than a lecture? Why do you think so? That is a question from us, not part of her record.

Source-based story · the activities are prompts for readers.

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The achievement, in context.

Aayu and Pihu Show — YouTube Silver Play Button (2018) and Diamond Play Button (2020); channel awards shared with Aayu

Elder sister and co-star of the Aayu and Pihu Show, the Kota family’s Hindi children’s YouTube channel launched in May 2017; Scroll (November 2018) records her at 11, the channel’s turn to Hindi moral stories “made by kids and for kids”, and her central role in its then-biggest video, Ek Jhooth. Channel milestones (Silver Play Button, June 2018; six lakh subscribers, September 2018; Diamond Play Button, November 2020) are channel achievements shared with her brother Aayu — a separate record — and are labelled as such.

2018-11-14 · Supporting source ↗

Sources you can explore.

Scroll · Children’s Day feature, 14 November 2018 ↗Magazine profile

Aayu and Pihu Show official website · About Us; Awards ↗Official channel website

Original source ↗

Another spark to discover.

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Amar beside a hand-drawn world map labelled with countries and rivers, from the CollegeDekho profile of his Learn With Amar channelYouTube creator (Learn With Amar)

Telangana · India

Amar Swathwik Thogiti

Telangana schoolboy behind Learn With Amar, a YouTube channel teaching memory techniques for the countries of the world and the rivers of India, developed with his father, a government school teacher; profiled by Scroll in November 2018 (aged 12, ~1.6 lakh subscribers) and CollegeDekho in February 2019 (aged 13, 1,87,000+ subscribers), with many viewers being UPSC aspirants. Surname spelled Thogini (Scroll) / Thogiti (CollegeDekho) — disclosed, not resolved.

Aged 12 in November 2018 (Scroll) and 13 in February 2019 (CollegeDekho)

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CollegeDekho ↗Source photograph · see credit