Lauren Riihimaki


Lauren Kobayashi Riihimaki is a Canadian YouTuber and crafter known for her YouTube channel LaurDIY. As of December 2019 her YouTube channel has just under 9 million subscribers.
Riihimaki began posting DIY tutorial videos on her blog in her first year of university in Toronto. She first joined YouTube in late 2011, originally to post her sewing videos on the platform. In 2015, she graduated from Ryerson University with a degree in graphic communications management. She won a Shorty Award in the "House & Home" category at the tenth annual ceremony. She also won a Streamy Award in the "Lifestyle" category at the Awards' debut ceremony in 2017. In the same year, her web series Served By LaurDIY premiered on Facebook Watch.
In 2019, Riihimaki was announced to host and executive produce a future HBO Max competition series called Craftopia.

Personal life

Riihimaki is of Finnish and Ukrainian descent through her father, and through her mother she is of Japanese descent. She dated Sebastian Morris from 2010 to 2015, with the pair remaining friends after they split. Morris died in late May 2020.
She started dating fellow YouTuber Alex Burriss, also known as Alex Wassabi on YouTube, in 2015. They broke up in September 2018.