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The farmers-turned-YouTube stars, who took their village, Chinna Veeramangalam in Pudukkottai district, to an international audience through traditional cooking videos, have garnered one crore subscribers.Periyathambi, 64, Subramanian, 32), Iyanar, 32, Tamilchelvam, 26, Muthumanikkam (24) and, Murugesan (30) from have started a YouTube channel called Village Cooking in the year 2018.The villagers used to cook in natural environments like coconut groves and gardens and upload it on their channel. Cooking in a natural and village-style has gained over 10 lakh subscribers in the last three years.The Village youtube channel has attracted a large audience where, Rahul Gandhi, a former Congress leader who had come to Aravakurichi during the election campaign in Tamil Nadu, met the Village Cooking Channel team and ate mushroom biryani along with the crew.Speaking to ANI, Aiyanaar, one of the crew members of the YouTube channel, said, "We have started a youtube channel in 2018. Even before five months of starting this channel, we had 7 million subscribers and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi visited our place. He cooked and ate with us which made it reach the next 3 million quickly.""Now we have 10 million subscribers for our channel. For every one crore subscribe YouTube will give the diamond button which we got. We are happy and proud that our channel got this diamond button in South India first time. We have planned to spend the revenue from our YouTube channel to help the needy and poor," he added.The crew used to offer what they cook to the poor and spend most of their revenue which they earned through YouTube channels to the homeless.Periya Thambi, another member said, "We started this Village Cooking channel with six crew members and we have grown well. We all six had an idea to donate a part of the revenue to the chief minister by meeting him. The chief minister (MK Stalin) got the donation and thanked us."Subramanian is happy that the team took their village to an international audience through traditional cooking videos that have garnered one crore subscribers."Our channel is going good with people's support. As we crossed a 1 crore subscriptions for our YouTube channel we were awarded the diamond button. People are happy that a Tamil channel from a village has reached such a level," said Subramanian.( With inputs from ANI )Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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