# @newsday on YouTube

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=HDiwJFsZZog
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/70597145-newsday-youtube
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/0c8b28905f.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-09-16T21:00:26.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Newsday • Long Island News (@newsday) — https://gondola.cc/newsday

## Caption

Abby Fridman, of Suffolk County, 26, was originally planning on being a doctor. She was attending Stony Brook University when she started posting on social media. It didn’t take long for her to gain a following and start making money using the different platforms. After graduating, she gave herself an ultimatum: If in three months she didn’t start making money on social media, she would go to medical school.

“I started paying a lot more attention to making my TikTok than my chemistry class,” she said.

When she realized she was starting to make more money as a creator than she would as a doctor, she decided to shift her career entirely and now has a business teaching others how to create on social platforms.

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## Stats

- **Views:** 160
- **Likes:** 0
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## Tags

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