Karen X. Cheng

Karen X. Cheng is an American director and YouTuber who studied at the University of Texas at Austin. She makes videos built around camera tricks and low-budget filmmaking techniques, and her YouTube channel had 1.09 million subscribers in March 2025. Her video Girl Learns to Dance in a Year, in which she filmed a year of learning to dance, led to a series with over 100 million views that was featured on Good Morning America and Ellen. She has made videos for campaigns by PUMA, LEGO and Beats by Dre, and was named to Inc's 30 under 30 and Adweek's Creative 100.