Indie Content Creators: Chubby Diaries' vigorous travels and positivity
Traveling the world is something at the top of the bucket list for many individuals. Considered an experience like no other, many people indulge in this activity for a slew of opportunities that range from experiencing the culture up close and personal to trying the best dish in town. Jeff Jenkins has triumphantly established a platform that positively strives to showcase these experiences through inclusivity.
Chubby Diaries encompasses excellently the travel lifestyle scene with a variety of videos that focuses on providing travel tips and hacks, while exploring a range of new foods in every city that Jenkins decides to visit. What truly separates this platform from other well-known travel vlogs is that Jenkins has decided to change the perspective of traveling for plus size people. This has led to a growing community of plus size travelers feeling optimistic about sharing their traveling experiences through Jenkins’ main platform.
Created in 2018, Chubby Diaries offers a simple format when presenting its travel vlogs. Videos range from 2 to 9 minutes with Jenkins presenting a well known dish from the city or his experience when visiting key locations. The videos become very informative as Jenkins includes tips or facts, by using very little editing, in order to enhance the viewer’s experience while watching his content.
Jenkins also presents fun videos that include taking cooking classes, how to spend layovers, things to do for free, and how to make the best of the city you are visiting in one day. As a host, Jenkins is very welcoming and relatable, which makes capturing his genuine reactions to every moment presented a marvelous perk for his followers. This certainly has added to the continued success of Jenkins’ purpose, as Chubby Diaries has evolved into more than just a brand by becoming an important staple for the plus size community.
Chubby Diaries counts with almost 300 subscribers on its YouTube platform. Jenkins posts videos monthly and has achieved positive feedback from his community, who have contributed to no less than 2.4k views in all aspects of his content. This has prompted the platform to expand into its own website, collaborations, travel tours, merchandise and other social media platforms.
Jenkins currently counts with over 20k followers on Instagram, which has proven to be his more prominent platform due to the use of the same format on his main channel, alongside a string of positivity posts in which our content creator shares the moments of his life that served as an inspiration for his brand . This has prompted Jenkins to be featured in USA Today, Forbes, The Washington Post, and the New York Times, among others. It also inspired the creation of the Black Travel Alliance, which unifies Jenkins with other Black travel content creators from across the globe in their fight for representation in all aspects of the travel industry.
Jenkins’ idea of Chubby Diaries was born out of his dream of becoming a travel blogger. The Austin-based content creator’s search for inspiration in travel websites or magazines would end up in disappointment, as Jenkins consistently saw little to no representation for plus size travelers in the industry. His constant optimism is applauded, as Jenkins took upon himself to continue to elevate his content through the pandemic by planning several road trips that ranged from North Dakota to Orlando.
Chubby Diaries is a fresh initiative that exalts the plus size community and encourages the importance of living life to the fullest against the idea of succumbing to your fears. With a mix of positivity, traveling, food and knowledge, Jenkins has cleverly worked his way through the digital platform era to make a mark with his purpose. Make sure to not miss out on a first class trip with this content creator that will surely tick off all of the boxes of your traveling bucket list.
