Karen Alloy - Net Worth $100 Thousand - Social Celebrity Net Worth

Karen Alloy - Net Worth $100 Thousand

October 31, 2013

Karen Schindler Alloy born August 3, 1977, in Chicago, IL is a comedienne and Regional Emmy award-winning entertainer, best known for her work on YouTube under the name spricket24. As of February 2012, Alloy's videos have received over 65 million views and have over 234,000 subscribers, and the spricket24 channel is ranked among YouTube's top 50 in several categories, and was among the top 100 most subscribed channels all-time on BlogTV before it was discontinued. She has lived in Minnesota, but now resides near Chicago. Alloy was vegan but may love bacon, although this could have been a characteristic of a character she played in a video.

Alloy has blogged and tweeted events most of us would consider pretty intimate with an online audience of thousands. Three notable examples: She has given herself a pregnancy test and even gave birth (without video, due to hospital restrictions), amassing several million total page views and a growing Twitter following in the process.

"People have a natural curiosity, and the more I open up the more they accept me," she said, sitting on a sofa in the second-story Minnetonka apartment she shares with her three children. Alloy left her corporate job four years ago to try her hand at vlogging (video blogging), most of which is done in her apartment. She now has nearly 180,000 followers, 4.5 million total channel views, 39 million total upload views and often gets a fresh post listed in YouTube's top 100 most-viewed of the day, making her something of an A-lister in the populist, indiscriminate world of YouTube.

Monthly paychecks from YouTube and Google are proof of her power to draw potential consumers to ads. Her reach is wide: At a Target store in California recently, three teen girls recognized her and told her they were fans. And so far, she's the only person to win a regional Emmy award (in 2009) for a YouTube video. "She's a sort of a new, techy version of a 1950s pinup, but she's smart, doing it all by herself, owning it," said Judy Grundstrom, a Minneapolis architect, blogger and social-media expert who nominated Alloy for a Twin Cities social-media award this year.A willowy redhead who has done some modeling and looks more 25 than 33, Alloy makes no bones about sometimes exploiting her beauty to keep the new clicks coming, or about setting limits on fan comments.She acknowledges some unwanted input from "creepy guys. I try to discourage it by writing things like, 'My grandma saw your comment.' I block them if they cross the line."Her natural attractiveness, the type that's enhanced even more by a camera, is part of the initial appeal for many of the fans who subscribe to her channel. But the secret of her endurance is keeping them interested in, even feeling a part of, her life, throwing out enough to keep them intrigued, but not so much that she becomes an obnoxious turn-off."She wouldn't have that huge fan base if she didn't show a little cleavage, but she's wink-wink, not porno," said Grundstrom. "She's not doing it the point where she turns off a lot of women. She's sophisticated about when it's a good idea to use her looks and when it's not."

What you immediately notice about Karen Alloy, in order: She's cute, funny, quirky, street-smart -- and willing to share. Some might say overshare. Alloy, aka YouTube's spricket24, has blogged and tweeted events most of us would consider pretty intimate with an online audience of thousands. Three notable examples: She has given herself a pregnancy test and even gave birth (without video, due to hospital restrictions), amassing several million total page views and a growing Twitter following in the process."People have a natural curiosity, and the more I open up the more they accept me," she said, sitting on a sofa in the second-story Minnetonka apartment she shares with her three children.

Alloy left her corporate job four years ago to try her hand at vlogging (video blogging), most of which is done in her apartment. She now has nearly 180,000 followers, 4.5 million total channel views, 39 million total upload views and often gets a fresh post listed in YouTube's top 100 most-viewed of the day, making her something of an A-lister in the populist, indiscriminate world of YouTube.

Her natural attractiveness, the type that's enhanced even more by a camera, is part of the initial appeal for many of the fans who subscribe to her channel. But the secret of her endurance is keeping them interested in, even feeling a part of, her life, throwing out enough to keep them intrigued, but not so much that she becomes an obnoxious turn-off.

"She wouldn't have that huge fan base if she didn't show a little cleavage, but she's wink-wink, not porno," said Grundstrom. "She's not doing it the point where she turns off a lot of women. She's sophisticated about when it's a good idea to use her looks and when it's not." Several weeks ago, after a video for which she wore a bikini top, Alloy blocked 172 people, losing a lot of subscriptions in the process (some were not subscribers, only viewers). "It makes other fans fight in my honor," she said.Her biggest fan base, she says, is women in their teens and early 20s, and "a lot of moms who follow me on Twitter. The largest volume of e-mails I get in any given day is from teen girls asking advice on womanhood and boyfriends.

I write back a ton, but it's hard to keep up." Midwest roots Alloy grew up in a military family in Minot, N.D. She joined the National Guard at 17, with her parents' permission. She moved to Minneapolis 12 years ago. She majored in theater at Normandale Community College, dropping out at 22 when she got pregnant.

She jokes about her family back home on her blog, but has also touched followers with videos about reconnecting with her birth dad, and dealing with his death five years later.

On July 16, 2009, Alloy went into labor and gave her fans live updates during her delivery. It was declared blogTV's very first live birth. Despite hospital restrictions preventing a video feed, the live text chat had over 400 viewers. Alloy's third child, Lulu Augustine Alloy, was born at 11:22 p.m. CDT, was 22" and 8 lbs, 12 oz.