ANSKF

Alaa Noorideein popularly known as ANSKF is an Iraqi-Kurdish YouTuber. He is the first person from Kurdistan to reach over 100,000 subscribers on YouTube. The first Kurd to be awarded the YouTube Silver Play Button[1].

ANSKF has over 185,000 subscribers and over 16 million viewers reach, and its viewership ranges from the ages of 8 to 30. Alaa launched his videos back in 2014 when there were no people of his community on youtube neither content creators nor viewers and over time his regional popularity grew as he made videos in the local language[2].

Alaa Noorideein was born on 18 March 1993 in Kirkuk, Iraq and his age is 28 years old (as in 2021),Graduated from the University of Kirkuk where he studied English literature. Born in a conservative Kurdish family. He started his YouTube channel around 2014 in the Kurdish language and is the first to win a silver play Button from his community. His YouTube channel goes by the name “ ANSKF I ئەنسکف ”[3].

Alaa said he faced lots of Hardships in the beginning because of the limited number of his audience with the knowledge of the Kurdish language. But, he learned a lot from his experience and continued efforts, he has since accumulated a dedicated following in social media due to his firm beliefs and hard work. He has more than 40 thousand followers on Instagram. Networth is estimated to be around $100K+. YouTube is one of his primary sources of Income[4][5].

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He once said, “I was looking for a way to best express my interest in Teaching English in an Entertaining way and present information and I came across YouTube,”. So far his career looks promising. His viewers are growing in number[6].