Quintal, the 16-year-old vlogger, started out posting videos on the internet at the age of 10 (he has over 1.5 million followers). “I started out at 10 years old, so it’s gonna be my sixth year on ...

Fifteen-year-old Anthony Quintal, better known to millions of online fans as Lohanthony, has a manager, a PR team and may earn upward of six figures this year for posting sassy video blogs on YouTube.

Monica Quintal remembers the moment she knew her son was a bona fide "internet celebrity." "We were at the mall near our house," Quintal, who lives in Methuen, Massachusetts, told Business Insider.

Even if the technology had been there, Lohanthony couldn’t have happened until recently. The YouTube persona of Anthony Quintal—the littlest big diva—so confounds what society traditionally has ...