The Marques Brownlee story, as told by his mom

When Jeaniene Brownlee’s son began making YouTube videos, she saw a quiet student become a gadget guru. “Marques has always been very detail-oriented,” she says. Jeaniene Brownlee says that she wasn’t paying that much attention when her son Marques began making YouTube videos in the family home as a high schooler. She wasn’t even instinctively impressed by his love of technology. But as he kept at it—and his gadget reviews became wildly popular—she became a cheerleader, as any moth...