And to my mother, Tia, who I always hoped was watching from somewhere above, and I hope that she’s watching now. Thank you all, thank you. In 2018, Aziz Ansari, star of the Netflix original comedy series, "Master of None", won a Golden Globe award for Best Actor in a Television Series Music or Comedy. He is the first of Asian descent to win this award, making him the first to win a best actor award in a television category. Ansari also won Outstanding Writing For A Comedy Series in the 2017 Emmy Awards. Ansari created the show because he wasn't being cast in interesting roles and the issues of Indian representation on television. These characters were those who played stereotype roles and were asked to do Indian accents. Ansari turned down a role in the 2007 film Transformers because he refused to do an Indian accent. Asian Americans also gained popularity through YouTube. Channels like NigaHiga (Ryan Higa), Michelle Phan, and Wong Fu Productions gained popularity on the platform. Wong Fu Productions for example has more than 3 million subscribers on YouTube and more than 500 million views on their channel. In an interview done with NBC News, reporter Traci G. Lee speaks to Philip Wang, co-founder of Wong Fu Productions and says, “In the decade that Wong Fu has been on YouTube, the platform has changed and Wang knows he can’t ignore it. Having 1 million, or even 3 million, subscribers is not rare in 2018 anymore,” and because of the ever changing nature of YouTube, Wang explains that, “We always tried to focus on good storytelling and improving our craft. Back then, since people didn’t know what YouTube was or what it could be. It brought in only people who saw it as a tool and wanted to share their work. Now there’s an expectation of what YouTube can provide: millions of followers and millions of dollars, a whole business. The culture has changed and we weren’t part of that, but I’m glad because we stayed focused to use it as a platform to tell our stories.”