Shuang Hu Tells All: Starting Out, Collaborations & Viral Growth Hacks
B&H Photography Podcast
Jill Waterman
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
We're kicking off the B&H Creators Green Room with the very talented Shuang Hu. Shuang is a renowned actress, writer, director, producer, and viral content creator with over 12 million followers. Tune in to learn about her creative journey, inspiration, and what it takes to grow as a modern creator.
Guest Bio:
Shuang Hu is a talented Chinese-Australian actress, writer, director, producer, and content creator who has gained over 12 million followers since starting her online content in March 2020. Her YouTube channel, THEONESHU, was listed as one of the top 50 most viewed US channels by Tubefilter.com, and her most viral short-form video has received over 298 million views. Shuang has appeared in various TV shows, films, and plays. She also co-wrote, co-created, produced, and starred in Amazon Prime's first original feature film, "Five Blind Dates," launched in February 2024, and she aims to continue sharing engaging stories across different platforms.
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Credits
- Host & Creative Producer: Deanna Tesa
- Creative Producer: Elena Maidebura
- Creative Editor: Larissa Mattei
- Technical Producer: Mike Weinstein
- Executive Producer: Richard Stevens
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the B&H Critters Green Room. |
| 0:06.0 | And just like a real green room, we're going to spill the tea with some of your favorite creators. |
| 0:09.0 | Our first guest is Shuhang You, aka Shoe, or The One Shoe, if you follow around many viral videos across social media. |
| 0:17.0 | Shoe is an actress, a producer, a director, a content creator. |
| 0:23.1 | Honestly, she has more titles than I can even remember. |
| 0:25.6 | So without further ado, let's jump into it. |
| 0:26.2 | Hey, Shue. |
| 0:27.5 | Hey, guys. |
| 0:30.0 | First of all, thank you so much for coming. |
| 0:31.8 | I haven't seen you since the Build Expo. |
| 0:33.9 | So I appreciate your time today. |
| 0:36.9 | How's everything's been going since June? |
| 0:40.6 | It's been a while time. I think I mentioned at the Build Expo to you that I was focusing on long-form content. I've predominantly been a short form creator. |
| 0:48.4 | I've been finding ways to merge my traditional film and TV mind and my online sensibility and trying to create content |
| 0:59.0 | that is a balance of both. So I feel like I'm achieving both at the same time. It wasn't until this |
| 1:05.7 | year that it kind of clicked for me that long-form YouTube content actually is a great way to merge both |
| 1:14.3 | of those things because you can tell longer stories and have a more narrative structure of a |
| 1:22.1 | piece of content but you can it can still live online and it's so funny because it's taken me |
| 1:27.4 | five years to |
| 1:28.6 | realize that. I kept thinking I have to separate the two. And now I'm like, wait, I can just |
| 1:35.4 | make myself and I have a distribution platform, which is YouTube. I'm basically my own Netflix. |
| 1:41.0 | Why don't I just make my own content, put it out there? Yeah. Like, wow. That literally, like, is everything we're going to talk about today. For the folks that are listening that don't know, you're an actress, a producer, a writer, a director, in addition to being a viral content creator. First, like, yes, yes, queen. And second of all, thank you. you take us on this journey like how did this happen |
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