Maddie Joy Reflects On How She Has Grown Up Since Age 14

Publish date: 2024-05-20

Maddie Joy is a social media influencer and YouTuber who gained recognition as part of the YouTube channel Maddie and Elijah. 

In June 2016, the two started the YouTube channel and shared ‘Boyfriend/Girlfriend Tag!’ as their first video. 

Since then, the couple’s vlogs, practical jokes, challenges, tags, shorts, and comic skits have amassed over 1.97 million subscribers. However, the couple stopped posting on their joint channel following their tragic breakup in 2022.

Nonetheless, she has a personal YouTube channel with the same name where she posts videos of challenges, pranks, storytime, and cosmetic lessons. 

Although she started the channel in March 2014, she didn’t submit its first video until December 2017—’ Welcome To My Channel!’ Over 205k new subscribers have joined the channel.

Maddie Joy discusses her personal development since turning fourteen

During a q&a video titled ‘Answering your DIFFICULT QUESTIONS’ dated August 17, 2021, Joy recalled how she had grown up since she was 14.

She began her video as usual by introducing herself and apologizing for not releasing a video in a while. “I couldn’t post for a while. I had to focus my time elsewhere,” she disclosed.

When a fan of Joy asked her, “How can you not give a f what people say,” she responded that she would never have been this way until a few years ago.

Maddie Joy. (Source: itsmaddiejoy/Instagram)

“I wouldn’t be the way I am now,” Joy admitted. She was concerned with what other people thought of her when she was about 14 or 15.

As a result, she hid and blocked everyone she knew from her school on her Instagram since she didn’t want them to have an odd impression of her.

Over time, the content creator discovered that she was happier when she didn’t give a damn what other people thought of her, and she now tries to live by that principle every day.

“So I just try to be that every single day is to strive to be the girl that doesn’t care about what people think and it’s a work in progress,” she revealed.

Maddie Joy’s opinions on her hometown and marriage

When asked what her favorite part about Ohio was, the YouTuber currently residing in California said it brought back many memories for her.

“My favorite thing is that it was very nostalgic to me. I get to see places I used to go to when I was little,” Joy mentioned.

The influencer continued by saying that she had always felt a unique connection to Ohio because she had grown up there, but she added that she wouldn’t want to live there.

Joy attended college and graduated with two degrees—an Associate of Arts and an Associate of Science—before she started working as a full-time YouTuber.

She explained that she and her now ex-boyfriend Elijah Wireman didn’t want to get married right away and instead wanted to wait for the right time when a fan inquired why they hadn’t gotten married yet.

The YouTuber also asserted that she was only 22 at the time and hadn’t thought deeply about marriage.

Maddie Joy’s first boyfriend was Elijah Wireman 

A well-known YouTube couple, Joy and Wireman, had been dating since 2016. On their joint Maddie and Elijah channel, they posted vlogs detailing the highs and lows of their journey together.

After their fantastic love tale, the couple started a long, turbulent journey of love. They had a perfect beginning to everything.

But things began to alter over time. While some things went their way, others were unfamiliar to them. But they persisted, always giving it their all, and found career success repeatedly.

The well-known YouTube duo announced their breakup on November 19, 2022, on their shared YouTube channel, confirming their split after almost seven years of togetherness.

“I still have Maddie’s back I am sure you still have mine,” Wireman said to her former partner While sobbing on camera.

Joy then broke the news, revealing that she and Wireman had decided to part ways on an amicable basis adding, “we did break up everyone asking in the comments.”

Back in 2016, the pair connected on Twitter for the first time. They continued to communicate there when she started following him in February.

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