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PROFILE: IRFAN JUNEJO

TITLE: A JOURNEY FROM A GULLY BOY TO A CELEBERITY.

Abdul Saboor Mughal

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A Journey from a gully boy to a celebrity

YouTube’s era is quite vast in itself and when it comes to Pakistanis, they have little or nothing to do with it in concerning of using this platform to present their original content, and that is for sure that content creators on YouTube earn good money. We see vloggers, tech reviewers and makeup artists, chefs and other professions anyone who has some special skills, from different countries using the platform of YouTube to exhibit their content. In recent years, we have seen a few Pakistani vloggers pop up on the YouTube like, Salaudin Taimoor aka Mooroo, Umer Khan (Ukhano) etc. Irfan Junejo is one of those vloggers who has successfully chased their dream by joining YouTube as a content creator. He has more than six hundred thousand subscribers till now, and he got one hundred thousand subscribers in just a year, which is pretty surprising.

YouTube sensation, Irfan Junejo was born on September 6, 1990 in Karachi.  He is basically from Mirpurkhas, Sindh. He was obsessive about Photography and Football and his dream was to join Football Academy in London but due to financial issues he had to drop his football career and started freelance photography. Later in 2015, He joined Snapchat and used to make a story of his whole day and he always got a great feedback, and that’s how, slowly, his shyness reduced in front of the camera. After few years passed he created his YouTube channel with a username of IJ7Films and posted his first Vlog on January 2017, named “My First Vlog”, and he started vlogging and sharing his daily routine with people on YouTube. He is inspired from his favorite vlogger and YouTuber named Casey Neistat and also copied his style in many videos.

In this journey he faced many difficulties because of judgmental peoples but he never gave up persuade his dream and did the things that made him happy and finally he was so close to his dream that he became one of well-known YouTuber’s in Pakistan. While going through his vlogs you will come to know that he is extremely shy, & affectionate of photography and football, and these were the only mediums of expressions and passion that made gave him fame. In his interview, he mentioned that he used to capture photos for DP (display picture) of the boys of his town to earn money and later he also started a mini football academy to help others pursue their goal in football.

Apart from his own channel, Irfan also co-hosts a show on YouTube called “The Jo Bhi Show” with his best friend Muneeb Adil, on that show they were discussing regular life issues. Except that he also collaborated with other fellow YouTuber’s.

Junejo’s vlogs are really simple and true in nature and mostly based upon the day to day routines. His famous vlog was “Junejo Guide to Naran”, which got 1.1M view. After that he became the Brand Ambassador of national and multinational companies including Huawei Honor, Furor and Emirates. Most of Pakistani youngsters follow Irfan and his work he inspires millions of youngsters not only in Pakistan but internationally people love his work and his talent is praised. This in itself is a huge accreditation to Irfan.

While his academic years, he used to be an obedient boy, but then he dropped off from business school that was the moment when he stopped caring about what people would say (Log kia kahain gy), Secondly, he didn’t got a chance for film school to learn filmmaking, so technically, he is not bound by any rule, which results to think beyond the limits. He have been consistent in creating content.

Once interviewer asked him that, “for aspiring vloggers, what works in vlogging, different vloggers have a different approach, and what is it that works for you?”, and he replied “There are two kinds of vloggers, one is a personality-driven vlog where a famous person starts vlogging and the second one is the kind of vlog which is based on the story and cinematic skills. The formula is to manage a balance between the story and creative cinematic skills.”

His story is inspiring for million his story teaches us to never give-up follow your dream no matter what others think of you.