Oakland internet celebrity “Coral Fish” of CoralReefer420.com passed her one millionth cumulative YouTube view this month. The milestone marks a new high point for the social-media artist, who over the past eighteen months has found fame, followers, and promises of filthy lucre by doing what she does every morning — taking fat bong rips of hash, blowing them at the camera, and bidding viewers a good day.
Coral’s intimate, relaxed, candid video posts — and yes, her butt on Twitter — is all part of what might be called an intuitive aesthetic of self-disclosure. Twenty-three years old with platinum blond hair, fair skin, manicured eyebrows, makeup, pierced ears, a tank top, and an elf-like smile, Coral takes viewers literally into the cannabis closet with her.