A/N: Self-control? Who's she? Never heard of her. Such a nice reference if you got it :)

This was inspired by virgil-is-a-cutie post about YouTuber Marinette AU. This is my take on it. This chapter is more of a prologue to introduce some important stuff about Mari's YouTube life.

This will contain Adrien, Alya, Bustier, and Lila salt with some helping of Class Salt on the side. You've been warned, so if you don't wanna see the salt, don't read.

Marinette jumped in her room through the window and carefully closed it as the transformation wore off. Oof, that was close. That Akuma battle was a tough one, thankfully she and Chat were able to subdue them.

Tikki floated to her pile of cookies and began to devour them at an alarming rate as she plopped down on her chair to see that thankfully her video was done rendering and after a few more rewatches, she saw that it was ready to be uploaded tonight. The perfect time to upload a video on YouTube where most introverted night owls would watch videos when they're supposed to be sleeping.

"Your channel is growing quite well, Marinette!" Tikki gushed as she floated next to her chosen.

"It is! I'm quite surprised that it grew so fast too!" She admitted to herself as she began to upload the video. "And it's all thanks to Aurore! I would never have learned half of this stuff if it wasn't for her!"

Aurore had noticed how stressed and lonely Marinette was as of late especially with Lila making true with her promise to take most of her friends. She suggested some YouTube channels she might like. While she was subscribed to some fashion, beauty, and baking channels, the ones Aurore suggested were the gaming and animation channels.

She knew YouTuber or Social Media Influencer was a steadily rising occupation, she even has one named 'FabricQueen' and had attempted it from time to time but it was mostly filled with very cringey beauty and fashion videos she made. It had a decent amount of subscribers so she didn't think much when she posted a simple storytime animation about her shenanigans in the bakery when she was young that was to the storytime animated channels that were on the rise.

The art style she used for the video was more chibi and cuter than the usual style she uses for her fashion work and it was a good way to broaden her drawing skills. But oh boy, she didn't realize how big it was gonna get. Over just one week, her video got a thousand views and people actually liked it. So much so that they began to subscribe to her channel and view her other videos too.

While she was apprehensive to continue especially with her many responsibilities. A saving grace came in the form of her classmates demanding she resigns from being the Class Representative and giving it to Lila. While at first, it stung to think her friends for turning on her, especially with Alya leading the charge and Adrien not even standing up for her. She realized that it opened her schedule to a lot more free time.

With some urging from Tikki and Aurore, she began to make more animations and show off her fashion work, even showcasing some jewelry that she was too shy to show others. That made her audience grow even bigger. Once she was more confident with herself, she began to post gaming videos alongside them, even featuring her other friends like Aurore, Mirielle, Kagami, and Luka.

Within the span of a year and a half, she gained almost a million subscribers and has done so many collabs with other famous YouTubers. Animators like JaidenAnimations, TheOddOnesOut, SomethingElseYT, and Domics. As well as YouTube Legends such as Markiplier, Jacksepticeye, Dan and Phil, and Thomas Sanders.

She was even invited to MatPat's Charity Livestream (With parental permission and a guardian which was her grandmother, Gina) during the summer and got to meet Rosanna Pansino, who she had been following even before she made YouTube videos thanks to her interesting baking ideas and cute personality.

Though despite all the exposure, she was still careful not to show her face with a specially made cat pink mask reminiscent to the Kitty Section costumes she made for them that she wore for gaming videos and live collabs. She was still underaged and prefer to keep her privacy just like Ladybug. No matter how many comments beg for a face reveal.

Marinette sighed as the video was halfway done uploading, it was a video collab with Dan and Phil. While on her end, she did an animation where the three described their funniest moments as Social Awkward Wrecks in society, on their end, they did a baking video with her kitty mask on as per usual. They did gush on how cute she was and because of it, they got so distracted that the cookies were not as good to her standards but were still edible and better than most of the two British YouTubers' baking endeavors.

Her mind wandered as vacation was coming to an end and she'll be going back to school after the weekend. She has videos ready in advance that just needed editing and thanks to her biweekly upload schedule of alternating between animation, gaming, and fashion videos. She should be able to get by for about a month or two into school while making and editing more videos alongside her Bakery, Ladybug, Fashion Commissions, and Guardian duties.

It's been especially hard once Fu was gone but she was getting by. She knows she's at risk of burnouts so maybe she should accept Aurore's help for the channel. At least the editing part so that would be a burden off her back and she doesn't need to worry about deadlines. But she doesn't want to burden Aurore, especially with her new show about different kinds of charities around Paris and LadyWatch, the new website about all things Ladybug and Akuma News since the LadyBlog has been on the decline on things newsworthy and instead focused more on her nonexistent relationship with Chat and trying to uncover both of their secret identities. While she provided Akuma battle videos, she's becoming more and more daring with them, constantly trying to put herself in danger for the scoop

Her reverie was interrupted when she heard the notification of her video being uploaded. Springing back into work, she began to notify her followers in all her FabricQueen social media. Once that was done, she yawned. She checked the time and groaned. Man, it's so late.

"Okay Tikki, time for bed." She sleepily climbed up her bed and flopped on the bed with Tikki floating and laying next to her chosen. "Night Tikki."

"Night Marinette."