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BriaAndChrissy

BriaAndChrissy is the YouTube channel and stage name of Bria Kam and Chrissy Chambers, an American singing duo and lesbian couple who built a following with music videos, comedy sketches, and vlogs about LGBTQ life, and who later became known for a revenge-porn legal victory and a class action lawsuit against YouTube.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Creators	Bria Kam, a singer-songwriter from Atlanta who appeared in the 11th series of American Idol, and Chrissy Chambers; they met at Mary's, a gay bar in Atlanta, when Chambers was 20 and Kam was 26¹
Channel start	First video uploaded in 2012, a song Kam wrote with her brother, posted for their mothers; the second video went viral¹
Breakthrough	"Dear Chick-fil-A (Because I'm a Homosexual)", a comedy protest song written after the chain's CEO condemned same-sex marriage, drew 30,000 views in two days¹
Audience	More than 729,000 subscribers by 2017; the main channel later listed 915,000 subscribers and 507.9 million views³^•⁴
Marriage	The duo married in the spring of 2018⁵
Revenge porn case	Chambers won a first-of-its-kind UK civil lawsuit against a British man who uploaded explicit videos of her without her consent⁶
YouTube lawsuit	In August 2019, BriaAndChrissy LLC, Kam, Chambers, and six other LGBTQ+ creators filed a class action against YouTube and Google in case 5:19-cv-04749²
Music	Album Face Your Fears; their best-known song from it is "Arrest Me"⁷

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Content

The channel mixes original music, comedy sketches, top-ten lists, and confessional "talking videos" about LGBT issues, coming out, relationships, and suicide.¹^•⁸ Early sketches included "Queer Beer", a Super Bowl commercial parody written and acted by the couple that was viewed more than 4 million times.⁸ Their debut music video, "Take You to Heaven" (2014), was a love story between two women that they described as a means to "help change hearts and minds".⁹

A later series put people of different genders and sexualities in unfamiliar situations, with titles such as "Gay Men Touch Vagina For The First Time!" and "Lesbians Touch Penis For The First Time!". The Shorty Awards, which named the duo a finalist in the LGBTQ+ YouTube Channel category of its 9th annual awards, described the approach as putting people in situations they had never been in to break down misconceptions; a commentary piece in The Queerness criticized the same videos as exploitative and voyeuristic.¹⁰^•¹¹ The duo also appeared as speakers, including the University of Delaware's Wellness Speaker Series in 2017, discussing LGBT rights, revenge porn activism, and working in the YouTube industry.¹²

Origins and growth

Kam and Chambers say they stumbled onto YouTube nine months into their relationship, with no intention of making a living from it. Their first upload in 2012 was a song Kam wrote with her brother, meant only for their mothers to watch. Ten days later, Dan Cathy, the CEO of Chick-fil-A, publicly condemned same-sex marriage; the pair protested at their local branch, and Kam wrote a comedy song about it. "Dear Chick-fil-A (Because I'm a Homosexual)" drew 30,000 views in two days along with press coverage, and the channel took off from there.¹

Less than a year after their first upload they were among the most popular lesbian content creators on YouTube; a video posted the day before Chambers learned of the revenge porn videos, titled "10 Worst Ways to Come Out", had already been viewed half a million times.¹ After a year on the main channel they started a second channel, Our Lesbian Love, a behind-the-scenes vlog of daily life intended to show "a normal lesbian relationship".¹ By mid-2017 the main channel had more than 729,000 subscribers, and the duo described their relationship as their profession at VidCon, the social media creators' conference in Anaheim.³

The revenge porn case

In June 2013, while recording their first album in Las Vegas, Chambers learned that her ex-boyfriend had posted explicit videos of her, filmed without her consent, online. The exposure damaged the channel's brand and Chambers's sense of her own sexuality, and the main channel suffered its largest drop in subscribers that month. Top search terms connected to her name became "Chrissy Chambers sex tape" and "Chrissy Chambers naked".¹

Chambers pursued a civil suit in the United Kingdom with the lawyer Ann Olivarius, a senior partner known for campaigning on women's rights. In 2017 she won unprecedented damages against the British man who had uploaded the videos, in what was reported as a first-of-its-kind UK revenge pornography civil lawsuit, and she rebranded herself as a campaigner and voice for revenge porn victims.⁶^•¹ Chambers has also described her role in the decision that made revenge porn illegal in the UK.¹³

The lawsuit against YouTube

Beginning around 2017, the couple found their videos age-restricted and demonetized. Age-restricted videos cannot be found through YouTube search and can only be watched by signed-in users over 18, which cut off much of their teenage audience; demonetization cut off advertising revenue. A video they made at YouTube's own request for its 2013 #ProudToLove LGBT campaign was later demonetized, and an automated appeal was rejected until a YouTube staffer intervened after a complaint on Twitter.¹⁴

On August 13, 2019, BriaAndChrissy LLC, Kam, Chambers, Chase Ross, Brett Somers, Lindsey Amer, and other LGBTQ+ creators filed a class action complaint against YouTube and Google in the US District Court (case 5:19-cv-04749), alleging discrimination, fraud, unfair and deceptive business practices, and unlawful restraint of speech.² The complaint states that BriaAndChrissy LLC's monthly revenues fell from about $3,500 to less than $400 to $500 per month, and that fees for sponsored videos fell from up to $8,000 to about $800; it also alleges that YouTube deleted the channel's customized thumbnails and disabled comment sections on new videos.¹⁵ Kam told The Guardian that the CPM Google calculated for their videos had fallen to about $50 per 200,000 views, from about $200 five years earlier, and said lesbians have the lowest CPM of all content providers.¹ The couple said they could no longer make a living from the channel and turned to Patreon, personal appearances, licensing, brand promotion, and direct fan support.¹⁶^•¹

Later developments

The duo launched an OnlyFans account in 2020 with exclusive videos, vlogs, and photos.⁷ Their channel pages now list a second channel, Wonder Warriors, with 181,000 subscribers and 62.8 million views, alongside the main channel's 915,000 subscribers and 507.9 million views; recent video titles on the main channel, such as "HATING My Ex (Let's Talk!)", address the end of the relationship between the two creators.⁴

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › Unscripted, reality, and web-native series › Web-native and streaming-original series › LGBT-related web series

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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