#anyone's free to take inspo from this btw!! im just vibing

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some potential ways this concept can be utilized:

a no miraculous AU (Marinette doesn't show her face in her videos. Ladybug is her username, and what her subscribers know her as. Chat Noir is... a different youtuber? One of her commenters? Or something)

an Adrien never went to public school AU (Chat Noir has no idea that Ladybug's secret identity has actually been the crafty girl in his phone who helps him sleep by explaining sewing machine mechanics to him. but when he finds out it makes a lot of sense)

canon-adjacent, where Marinette has no idea that Adrien watches her videos/knows about her channel at all. When he tells her that he actually watches and enjoys Every Single One, her heart explodes. Alya never hears the end of it

same as 3, BUT with the bonus: Marinette doesn't show her face on camera. Adrien doesn't know it's her. She finds out that he watches her because he recommends the channel to her. (or, he sees her with one of the crafts she made, and asks her "oh you watch her too?? i love that channel!"

extra bonus for 3 and 4: after Marinette finds out that Adrien watches her channel, she suddenly struggles to record audio for her videos without stammering, because she imagines a sleepy Adrien listening to what she's saying and gets flustered

extra extra bonus: Marinette realizes that Adrien has been the subscriber of hers that always leaves really nice and detailed comments about her videos. And she dies again. (sometimes she gets so flustered she just. Pins his comments. and her subscribers have no idea why this one user's kind-but-otherwise-mundane comments are always being pinned)

Marinette has a shop where she sells some of her crafts. Adrien buys many of them. (bonus if he doesn't know that it's Marinette, and he buys something FOR Marinette FROM Marinette. Marinette tells Alya it's the best gift she's ever gotten from anyone in her life. Alya needs a nap.)

once Adrien and Marinette are together, Adrien is often the person behind the camera, or an off-screen "assistant" who hands her things. (He doesn't appear on camera, typically, because he generally has been trying to get out of the spotlight and also doesn't want to overshadow her crafts with a bunch of "hold up. is that Adrien fucking Agreste at 3:05?" comments)

EVIL EDITION: Marinette's channel gets "cancelled" because, after posting some Ladybug and Chat Noir-themed DIYs, someone posts a call-out that she's dating Hawkmoth's son. and can you believe she refuses to apologize for it :(

youtuber/tiktoker/whatever-type-of-video-influencer marinette, where she makes crazy DIY and craft videos and debunks fake content-farm DIYs. she has a modest but loyal mass of followers that grow by the day as her crafts get increasingly intricate and cool. she catalogues all of her mistakes and is very earnest about the process. adrien falls asleep to videos of her sewing and making cool containers and explaining the mechanisms of the strange devices she makes