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Hilly & Hannah Hindi, sister web sensations

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Hilly and Hannah Hindi
Zack W.

In 2006, 16-year-old Hilly Hindi entered an AOL contest for teens to create their own web series. Her submission, a pop-culture parody called The Hillywood Show, came in third, but it set Hilly (along with her older sister, Hannah) on the path to Internet stardom. The single episode generated enough interest for Hilly to enlist Hannah to help her create more videos for the recently launched YouTube. Their first big hit was a 2009 musical parody of Twilight, which currently has more than 10 million views, while a later parody of Breaking Dawn is the sisters’ most-watched video ever, with more than 25 million views. Videos like that, along with celebrity shout-outs from the likes of Lady Gaga and Breaking Dawn director Bill Condon, brought the sisters to the attention of Chris Hardwick’s geek-focused online network Nerdist. With Nerdist’s backing, the sisters have turned making online videos into their full-time occupation—so far they’ve released two videos (one each on The Walking Dead and The Lord of the Rings) under the new partnership. “Now we can put all hours of the day into everything that we’re doing for the show,” Hannah says, promising a new video every other month, making 2015 by far the biggest Hillywood year yet.

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