Do we like Wengie?
Our score: 7 out of 10. Nothing harmful or dodgy found and some real giving, but the record is light and her crypto game folded.
Wengie is the YouTuber behind a decade of DIY, beauty and life-hack videos, with nearly 16 million followers across YouTube and Instagram at last count. Forbes Australia says she's the daughter of immigrant parents and left an accounting job in her early twenties. She then worked at a digital marketing agency before the channel took off.
She didn't stop at videos. She has put out pop music, and a 2019 interview with KpopStarz had her talking about working with a big team of composers. She also launched a toy line, Whimsical by Wengie, which Tubefilter reported was heading to Target stores nationwide.
The big swing was Nyan Heroes, a blockchain shooter where cats pilot mech suits, which she co-founded with Max Fu. Tubefilter reported in 2022 that the NFT sales were meant to support Best Friends Animal Society, and she said she wanted to be “the good in Web3”. Crypto games are a divisive space, and plenty of people side-eye them, so where you land on that part is your call.
It didn't end well for the business. In May 2025 the developer announced it was shutting down because it couldn't raise the money to finish the game. Decrypt's report doesn't name Wengie, and the criticism in it came from an outside investor talking about Web3 games generally, so there's no scandal pinned on her here.
On the good side, she told Tubefilter in 2019 that she gives monthly towards girls' education through Compassion, and also donates to the Red Cross, Clean Water in Africa and Save the Children. She also said she doesn't talk much about it. That's her account rather than an audited record, but it's the opposite of a charity grab for attention.
We found nothing recent, no court cases, no allegations and no responses to deny. So she gets a solid, slightly cautious yes: a decent, upbeat creator whose biggest stumble was a business that ran out of money.