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Cell C, along with Blink Pictures, announced #BreakTheNet (#BTN) Top 30 finalists in a reality show broadcast live on Sunday 23 October on the Cell C Reality App. Over the last month hundreds of participants entered a countrywide search with their original one minute YouTube videos, all vying for the chance to win R250 000 and a trip to Hollywood and the title of South Africa’s next YouTube Sensation. Finalists from all over the country have been selected to take part in the next phase of the Cell C #BreakTheNet reality show. Each week participating contestants will be given a task to include in the filming of their videos and will be selected to continue week by week based on the number of views that they receive for each video. The top 30 participants, who will be mentored by local social media celebrities including Suzelle DIY, cinematographer Ofentse Mwase and YouTube personality Theodora Lee. Derick Watts and the Sunday Blues will anchor the show while Darren ‘Whackhead’...

INTERNATIONALLY Lilly Singh, Michelle Phan and Olajide "KSI" Olatunji are just some of the world's YouTube sensations making a few millions from just posting their video clips online. And now locals are being afforded the same opportunity by network provider Cell C as they launched their global first reality show   Break The Internet   created purely to finding the country's own online sensation, something like Julia Anastasopoulos best knownas Suzelle DIY . Julia "Suzelle DIY" Anastaopoulos and Darren "Whackhead" Simpson at the launch of  BTN. PICTURES: CELL C When the 33-year-old ditsy Afrikaans poppie from Somerset West started her show in 2014, she was merely a receptionist at a guesthouse using her video camera but little did she know she would be sitting at 100000 subscribers on YouTube, 60000 followers on Instagram and over 100000 fans on Facebook. She currently has uploaded 53 videos to date and says, "she doesn't regret...