The video that started Tineke “Tini” Younger ’s career as an online food personality wasn’t a shot at virality — it was the young chef’s attempt to make dinner and practice her skills at the same time. She had just gotten home from a long day of culinary school and she and her boyfriend, Antoine Wright Jr., needed to eat. Since she had just finished a module on steak techniques, she fired up the grill. And then an idea hit her — she should film it.

“I don’t why I was like, ‘I’m gonna record,” Younger tells Rolling Stone. ‘I didn’t have a set up. I didn’t have a tripod, lights, anything. But for some reason it blew up. And I realized, ‘Oh, this is fun. People actually like watching me cook.”

That might be a bit of an understatement. Since the 24-year-old creator posted her first pop

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