Comic Book Girl 19

Danika Lee Massey, also known as Comic Book Girl 19 or CBG19, is an internet celebrity known for her commentaries on comics, films, books, and television shows. She hosts videos on a YouTube channel. She has a degree in sequential art from the Savannah College of Art and Design.
Comic Book Girl 19 became popular on the web in 2013. This followed after a five year period of working as a tattoo artist. As of October 2016, her YouTube channel had over 39 million views and over 520,000 subscribers. Some of her most popular videos are commentaries on the film Prometheus, the television series Game of Thrones, and the documentary series Epic History X-Men. Some videos delve into the background of various popular culture myths and explore special effects in movies. In 2013, she interviewed Alec Gillis of Amalgamated Dynamics, a special effects company that specializes in animatronics and prosthetic makeup. CBG19 occasionally co-presents with "Robot", a humanoid 50's Sci-Fi inspired Robotic character with the personality of an angry teenager, and "Space Brain", a floating 50's Sci-Fi inspired alien creature. The CBG19 videos are directed and edited by Tyson Wheeler whose creative partnership is referred to as "Team 19" or "Team 19 Productions".
Comic Book Girl 19 has contributed reviews of various comics to DC All Access. She has also appeared on The Jace Hall Show's Lounge Live, Geek and Sundry, and Chaotic Awesome, sharing her views on pop culture and comics. She posed for the artist Daniel Dos Santos in a photo shoot for the cover of Diana Rowland's novel White Trash Zombie Apocalypse and was featured on Gizmodo for winning "Best in Show" for her RoboCop costume at Dragon Con. She has been featured in Variety and Cosmopolitan. She has spoken at TEDx Claremont Colleges on the value of using fictional characters for empowerment.
CBG19 has said her pseudonym is connected to the 19th card of the Major Arcana of the Tarot, which is The Sun. Interviewed by HelloGiggles in 2014, Massey said that her use of the number is related to Stephen King's The Dark Tower. The number features in many of her videos in the form of a tattoo. Comic Book Girl 19 and her team have also joined the crowd-funding platform Patreon.