Joana Campos Ceddia is a Brazilian-CanadianYouTuber, vlogger and former competitive swimmer and runner. With her quirky and ironic sense of humour, Ceddia is famed for being a person her predominantly teenaged audience can relate to.
Career
Joana created her YouTube channel in 2018 after suffering an injury that prevented her from pursuing a career in competitive running. She became an internet phenomenon in the same year, gaining nearly two million subscribers in the space of a few months. A few of Her most popular videos involve Joana cutting her hair with craft scissors, recreating popular artworks, making simple vlogs of her high school experience and jokingly "transforming" herself into popular characters and public figures by manually creating costumes. Ceddia was a finalist for the "Best YouTube Comedian" category at the Shorty Awards in 2018, and was nominated for the "Breakout Creator" category at the 2019 Streamy Awards. As of July 2020, her YouTube channel has accumulated 3.25 million subscribers and 268,494,561 views from her videos collectively. She also has two items of merchandise currently available; the 'Joana Trinket Box' and the 'Joana Ceddia Sweater'.
Personal life
Ceddia currently lives with her mother Denilce Campos, and father, Rolando Ceddia, in Toronto, where she is studying physics and astronomy at university. Her mother represented Brazil at the 1980 and 1982South American Artistic Gymnastics Championships, winning gold in team all-around both times. Her father is an associate professor at the School of Kinesiology & Health Science at York University. Ceddia has participated in competitive school swimming and is an OFSAAgold medalist.. On March 17, 2020, Ceddia released a video where she had hatched 24 quails, naming the ones who hatched Quigley, Quinton, Quincy, Qelly, and Dula Peep. On June 19, 2020, she revealed in a video that Qelly had passed away on May 13, 2020 due to suspected genetic complications. Ceddia said that after her quails die, she will not own a pet again, due to the moral conflicts it presents to her, evident in this statement, "taking an animal away from its natural habitat and then keeping it in a box for my personal pleasure.", she made in one of her previous videos.
