Stanley started as a volunteer moderator in the TubeBuddy forums under Andrew and Ike, then rose to Senior Community and Engagement Representative. He has worked with creators from 0 to over 2,000,000 subscribers, always putting the person ahead of the analytics.

Now Community and Support Manager at the KDCC, Stanley keeps the community running and makes sure every member gets a real answer. He is the published author of How To Grow on YouTube, and has published 600+ videos of his own, all filmed and edited on a five-year-old phone.

Find Stanley's book, How To Grow on YouTube, on Amazon.

Hannah Manuit is the Social Media Manager at the Kan Do Creators Community. Before any of this she was a performer, and she still is. She grew up singing, picked up dance in high school, went to college for acting, and continues to perform today. That background is not a detour from the job. Standing in front of an audience and reading a room in real time is most of what social media actually is.

Hannah found content creation the way a lot of people did, which is to say during the pandemic, in the cosplay community on TikTok. She grew that account past 70,000 followers herself. What worked was making real connections with the people watching, then finding the overlap between the content she genuinely wanted to make and the content her audience genuinely wanted to see. Once those two things lined up, everything got easier. She is clear-eyed that opportunity and luck played a part in where she landed, and equally clear that being prepared is what let her take those opportunities when they showed up.

She is also honest about the trap. There was a stretch where requests for a certain kind of content crowded out everything else, where the thing that performed well kept getting made and the thing she actually wanted to make kept getting pushed down the list. Finding a balance she could live with mattered more than the numbers did. It is probably why the most overrated advice in this industry, in her words, is quantity over quality. That is a useful instinct to have running social for a community that tells creators the same.

Hannah is deliberate about not letting the work eat her. Her rule is that the content exists because of her, so she has to come first, and a good week is one where she is proud of what she made and hit the deadlines she set. She would be the first to say asking for help is hard, and the first to say she is surrounded by people who want to give it. On the KDCC she puts it plainly: a community "fueled on inspiration and support", and one she is honored to be part of. Outside of work she is running a small menagerie, currently a dog, a cat, a snake, and a bird, and the app she would fight hardest to keep, for the record, is Vine.

Katherine R. Jung is a Community Moderator at the Kan Do Creators Community and the creator behind KathehFit. Most of the KDCC knows her as Kathy, and most of them met her in the Discord before they ever saw one of her videos. That is the job: she is the person who notices the question nobody answered, keeps the conversations moving, and makes sure new creators get a reply instead of silence.

Kathy is proof of something the KDCC believes and rarely gets to demonstrate: the people who build a community should be able to build a career inside it. She was a member first. Long before the Kan Do Creators Community existed she was part of the TubeBuddy community, in the same rooms as Andrew Kan and Ike Do, supporting the work they were doing there. When they started the KDCC, she showed up again. She was a member, then a regular, then the person other members went to. Becoming a moderator was not a leap. It was a title catching up to what she was already doing.

She has also been on YouTube for a very long time. Kathy started filming her friends around Chinatown in New York City back when the platform had barely launched and almost nobody had heard of it. She was there for the video reply era, made reaction videos when that meant something different than it does now, and was posting K-Pop dance covers by her early twenties. She never deleted any of it, and she still has those channels. She treats them as a time capsule rather than something to be embarrassed about, which is advice she gives other creators too: private your old videos, do not erase them. That history is the reason she is useful in the Discord. When a member is discouraged about a channel that is not moving, Kathy is not guessing at what that feels like.

KathehFit does two different jobs, and Kathy keeps them separate. The dance side is about confidence and getting comfortable moving your body. The fitness side is about strength, longevity, and everyday function, and that is where the training comes in. She is an AFAA Certified Group Exercise Instructor with an Associate Degree in Applied Exercise and Fitness, and it shows in what she asks of a routine before it goes out: will this help someone carry groceries, walk up the stairs, move better, get stronger. Alongside the fitness work she is an artist, and she streams her art process live on Friday nights.

Kathy is also honest about the parts creators do not usually put on an About page, including the low points, the years of building without traction, and what it took to keep going. She talked about all of it on the KDCC blog. If you want to know who is behind the mod hat, that interview is the place to start.

Want the full story? Read Kathy's interview on what a day in the life of a YouTube community moderator actually looks like on the KDCC Blog.