Line #52 WebVideo/LizaKoshy


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''"A little brown girl with big dreams."'']]
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4	-> '' "It's your girl, Liza. Coming at you..." ''
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6	Elizabeth Shaila Koshy, better known as [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxSz6JVYmzVhtkraHWZC7HQ Liza Koshy]] (born March 31, 1996) is an American actress, comedian, and Website/YouTube personality.
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8	She first gained a following on Website/{{Vine}}; posting comic videos under the pseudonym "Lizzza". By 2016, Koshy was also becoming noted on the [=YouTube=] platform and she became "the fastest [=YouTube=] personality to reach 10 million subscribers". As of October 2018, her main [=YouTube=] channel has over 16 million subscribers.
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10	She, and her videos, are well-known for "her loud facial expressions, quick pace, and her commitment to looking as ridiculous as possible as the joke demands. [Some of her videos] take serious issues – like anxiety, the pressure to fit in, and internet trolls – and make them accessible and engaging for her viewers."
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12	She has some videos that follow a theme:
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14	* Adventurezzz with Lizzza! - featuring Driving with Liza, Shopping with Liza. At the Dollar Store with Liza and other adventures....with Liza!
15	* Parodies - which mock makeup tutorials and hacks and Do It Yourself type videos
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17	Outside of [=YouTube=], she appeared in the Hulu series ''Series/{{Freakish}}'', was the host of the 2018–2019 revival of ''Series/{{Double Dare\|1986}}'', and stars in a comedy series she created: ''Liza on Demand''. She voices Zipp Storm in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyANewGeneration'', Jinx in ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'', Arcee in ''Film/TransformersRiseOfTheBeasts'', and Margot in ''WesternAnimation/RubyGillmanTeenageKraken''.
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19	Her Twitter can be found [[https://twitter.com/lizakoshy here]] and her Instagram is [[https://www.instagram.com/lizakoshy/ here.]]
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21	!! Liza and her videos provide examples of:
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23	* ACupAngst: Usually [[PlayedForLaughs played for laughs]]. She often notes that she can pass for a little boy and that her boobs are nonexistent.
24	* AnswerCut:
25	** In her STEALING FOOD?! GROCERY SHOPPING WITH LIZZZA video. After saying she's lactose intolerant she continues with:
26	--->'''Liza:''' Does my condition stopped me from living life to the fullest and eating dairy products?\
27	''[it cuts to her laughing hysterically followed by another cut of squeezing whipped cream in her mouth]''\
28	'''Liza:''' Not at all.
29	** Same video:
30	--->'''Liza:''' Am I hungry right now? Uh...\
31	''[cuts to her fawning over a bag of Ruffles, Tostitos and eating from an open bag of popcorn]''\
32	'''Liza:''' Yeah, I'm freaking ''starving''.
33	* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: In her "Googling Myself" video, Liza uses this trope by name when she interrupts the video to open her Streamy Award.
34	* BollywoodNerd: She was born to Indian-American and Caucasian parents in Houston, TX. From kindergarten to 5th grade, she was placed in a dual language educational and cultural program, where she learned Spanish. After graduating from high school, she enrolled in the University of Houston, studying business marketing, leaving college to start her career in Los Angeles.
35	* BreakingTheFourthWall: She ''is'' talking to an audience, but this happens often when she does skits.
36	* BriefAccentImitation: Frequently. Most notable is whenever she does any of her characters.
37	* CatchPhrase: "Hey guys, it's your girl Liza; coming at you."
38	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: She is well known for portraying a dim witted persona at times.
39	* {{Crossdresser}}: Whenever playing any of her male characters.
40	* {{Crossover}}: Whenever she collabs with other popular [=YouTubers=] -- though the most requested has been her collaboration with WebVideo/IISuperwomanII or Lilly; due to their similar personalities.
41	* ClothingDamage: Self-inflicted on Liza, in the Liza On Demand episode 'Naked'. Wearing just a brown bag over her naked body, Liza accidentally sets a bee free in a 'Bee-tox' shop, which then flies into her dress. Panicking, and thinking the bee is trying to get 'all up in [her] hive', Liza frantically rips the bag apart, rendering her naked.
42	* DoubleEntendre:
43	-->'''Liza:''' How about you do your laundry?\
44	''[she then jumps onto the pile of clothes complete with a sexy song as background music]''
45	* EverythingIsRacist:
46	-->'''Questioning Viewer:''' Why is this video so short?\
47	'''Liza:''' Yes, this video is short. But, so are babies. And, do you have anything against babies?... You racist.
48	* GenkiGirl: Quite energetic and confident.
49	* GoshDangItToHeck: She never swears. She has either used a different word or cut herself off before saying the whole word.
50	* HandOrObjectUnderwear: In the Liza On Demand episode 'Naked', she has to cover herself up with her hands, and later (briefly) a dirty blanket and two coconuts to preserve her modesty after she gets locked out naked, and is running around town in the buff.
51	* HowIsThatEvenPossible: In her BEING HOME ALONE! \| PARODY video. After she accidentally making her meal catch on fire, she then proceeds to just eat cereal... only for the carton of milk to catch on fire.
52	-->'''Liza:''' ''How is this even possible?!''
53	* HurricaneOfEuphemisms: Sometimes, especially with her Carlos character.
54	* HurricaneOfPuns: Good god, when ''doesn't'' a Liza video have puns? Some good examples are videos where she goes to any shopping complex. All below are a few from the same video:
55	** "There's so much stuff you can buy here, it's ''nuts''!" (She says this while moving in front of multiple nuts dispensers)
56	** (In front of a cart of potatoes) "I actually have so many jokes about potatoes but I don't know where to ''starch''."
57	** (Driving cart past meat section) "I try my best to look nice because you never know who you're gonna ''meet''."
58	** "Being around all this food has made me ''berry'', ''berry'', ''berry'' hungry." (She says as she walks in front of a berry section)
59	** Almost always doubles with VisualPun.
60	* ImprovisedClothes: After her robe gets caught in a door in the Liza On Demand episode 'Naked', Liza finds herself running around town fully nude, and later improvises two dresses, both of which she loses, rendering her naked again. The first is a brown bag dress, which Liza rips to shreds after a bee gets 'all up in [her] hive', and the second is a poster wrapped around her naked body, which gets torn off by an activist, which leaves her running down the street nude.
61	* MistakenForMasturbating: In her BEING HOME ALONE! \| PARODY video under the suggestion "Play with yourself", she does something under the cover of a sheet, with what at first sounds like moans - only to reveal that she was playing with a child's toy.
62	* NakedPeopleAreFunny: The entire premise of the Liza On Demand episode 'Naked', in which Liza gets locked out naked and has to run around town searching for clothing.
63	* NakedPeopleTrappedOutside: This happens to Liza in the Liza On Demand episode 'Naked', after her robe gets caught in a door.
64	* OneHeadTaller: Liza (5'0) and her (now ex) boyfriend Creator/DavidDobrik (5'6).
65	* ParentalNeglect: "My pants are making up for the lack of attention I had as a child!"
66	* PungeonMaster: Again; when doesn't a Liza video have puns?
67	* RapidFireComedy
68	* RunningGag: In most of her videos.
69	** One example in one of her {{Gosh dang It To Heck}} moments by using the word biscuit to cover "bitch". After that, she proceeds to use the word twice more -- cutting in before she says the word 'bitch' again and the other cutting in trying to say 'bye'.
70	** Another is in her BEING HOME ALONE! \| PARODY video. After making her meal catch on fire, she then proceeds to make a cartoon of milk ablaze. After that, she goes to open her microwave; but ''somehow'' it (and the pan for her meal from before) catches on fire when she hasn't even started microwaving it. Later on, even a tube of ice-cream catches on fire...''in the fridge''.
71	--->'''Liza:''' Oh, ''come on''!
72	* SigningOffCatchphrase: "Little brown girl is out. Bye-ee!"
73	* {{Streaking}}: Liza is forced to do this in the Liza On Demand episode 'Naked', and can be seen running fully nude covering herself with her hands after her robe gets caught in a door.
74	* StrippingSnag: Liza's robe gets caught in a door in the Liza On Demand episode 'Naked', meaning that she is forced to run naked through town to get more clothes.
75	* SubvertedCatchphrase: In videos on her second channel: "Hey guys, it's your girl Liza; coming at ''two'', because it's my second channel".
76	* VisualPun: Pretty much all of her videos have visual puns and jokes.
77	-->'''Liza:''' This... ''[she cuts to her in her closet]'' Is what your clothes say about you.\
78	''[voices, meant to be her clothes behind her, start speaking to the point where you can't make out what they're saying]''\
79	'''Liza:''' Can you please stop talking behind my back?

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