Karen Schindler Alloy is an American comedian and Regional Emmy award-winning entertainer, best known for her work on YouTube

YouTube

YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....

 under the name spricket24. As of February 2011, Alloy's videos have received over 48 million views and have over 200,000 subscribers, and the spricket24 channel is ranked among YouTube's top 50 in several categories, and is among the top 100 most subscribed channels all-time on BlogTV

BlogTV

blogTV is an online video service. blogTV began in June 2004, in Israel, and was a pioneer in the webcasting industry. Its goals were to supply anyone and everyone, with internet access, a way to express their talents & ideas to the world and to socially network with people face to face. In 2006...

. She has lived in Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

, but now resides near Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

. Alloy was vegan but may love bacon

Bacon

Bacon is a cured meat prepared from a pig. It is first cured using large quantities of salt, either in a brine or in a dry packing; the result is fresh bacon . Fresh bacon may then be further dried for weeks or months in cold air, boiled, or smoked. Fresh and dried bacon must be cooked before eating...

, although this could have been the a characteristic of a character she played in a video.

BlogTV Childbirth

On July 16, 2009, Alloy went into labor and gave her fans live updates during her delivery. It was declared blogTV's very first live birth. Despite hospital restrictions preventing a video feed, the live text chat had over 400 viewers. Alloy's third child, Lulu Augustine Alloy, was born at 11:22 p.m. CDT and was 22" and 8 lbs, 12 oz.

2009 Emmy Award

In 2009, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences or NATAS was created in 1955 to advance the arts and sciences of television. Headquartered in New York, NATAS's membership is national and the organization has local chapters around the country....

 – one of the three governing bodies that provide Emmy Award

Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...

s – awarded Alloy a regional Emmy in the Advanced Media Writer category for her video 2012: The End of The World. This was the first time an award had been given in this category. Alloy accepted the award from the Upper Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences or NATAS was created in 1955 to advance the arts and sciences of television. Headquartered in New York, NATAS's membership is national and the organization has local chapters around the country....

 at a ceremony held on January 21, 2010.

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