Emma Chamberlain likes and subscribes to graduate life.
More than seven years after dropping out of college to focus on her YouTube career, the 23-year-old received her diploma from Notre Dame High School in Belmont, California.
In photos shared on her Instagram on May 31, Emma, dressed in a white graduation gown and matching hat, proudly displayed her diploma while standing under a banner that read “Titans 2019,” the year of their initial graduating class.
“I got my high school diploma,” she wrote in the caption, adding in a separate post on Instagram Stories, “#graduated.”
Emma launched her YouTube channel in the summer of 2016 after her sophomore year of high school. According to the influencer, she was “depressed as hell” before the career change and used vlogging as a form of escape.
“I've always been someone who's in school a lot,” she shared in a 2017 video, explaining that YouTube was what kept her “sane” throughout her studies. “But for me, during this year, I was taking a lot of honors and it was a lot. I quickly went back to a very, very depressed state. It was very difficult for me to shoot videos.”
