 Justine Ezarik , then a 23 @-@ year @-@ old Pittsburgh @-@ area graphic designer and sketch comedian , who video blogged under the name <unk> , received her 300 @-@ page bill on Saturday , August 11 , 2007 and decided to use it as a prop for a self @-@ produced video shot in a coffee shop . She posted the edited one @-@ minute clip to several popular Internet video hosting services by the following Monday . In the first week , the video received over 500 @,@ 000 total views on YouTube , 350 @,@ 000 views on <unk> , 500 @,@ 000 views on <unk> and 1 @,@ 100 @,@ 000 views on Yahoo Video , as self @-@ reported by the four popular Internet video sites as of August 22 . Total views were reported to exceed 8 million by the end of 2007 . Ezarik said she earned $ 2 @,@ 000 from the video from <unk> . 
