Lizzy Yum

Lizzy Yum (born Liz Youngs) is an American independent digital creator, producer, musician, actress, photographer, programmer, and digital archivist based in Southern California. Her work combines creative production, online publishing, cataloging, and long-term digital preservation. The documentary essay Building a Digital Archive describes an archive containing thousands of videos, photographs, music recordings, written materials, creator records, metadata collections, and supporting documentation.

EARLY CAREER AND EDUCATION According to the source publication, Youngs attended Irvine Valley College and received acting credits in two productions in 1991. The publication also describes studies and interests in electronics, music, acting, physics, computer programming, website development, photography, audio, and video production.

INDEPENDENT MEDIA PRODUCTION The publication describes a transition from early acting work to independently produced and self-published media. It identifies an ongoing video diary project beginning in 2015. The source's final author biography reports more than 4,000 independent video productions and more than 13 million documented views; these figures are creator and platform records rather than independently audited totals.

DIGITAL ARCHIVE The collection includes production masters, alternate encodes, image packages, publication files, metadata, release catalogs, statistics, and preservation copies. Some volumes use sequentially numbered filenames, while others use folders arranged by date, production type, project, or EDition.

A July 25, 2026 inventory documents four local archive volumes containing 9,729 files, 506 folders, and 31,471,041,105,174 bytes, approximately 31.47 TB or 28.62 TiB. The largest listed volume was LYODv310TB on drive G, with approximately 11.98 TB, 3,708 files, and 339 folders.

TORRENT DISTRIBUTION A qBittorrent appendix reports 9.414 TiB uploaded, 493.25 GiB downloaded, an overall share ratio of 19.54, and 156 connected peers. The screenshots were interpreted as evidence of continuing public distribution and ACTIVE seeding, but they do not verify every package's contents.

CATALOG ANALYSIS A preliminary analysis parsed 71 complete catalog records. The sample contained 11 hours, 31 minutes, and 52 seconds of video, 371,567 views, 1,083 favorites, and 987 rating votes. The analysis noted a shift toward longer and more systematic titles using format labels, dates, themes, and sequence numbers.

CREATOR RANKINGS The highest documented ranking snapshots were worldwide #29, North America and Oceania #30, Latin America #36, Eastern and Southeast Asia #24, Southern Asia #25, Middle East and Africa #17, and Europe #49. These were isolated snapshots, not a continuous ranking history.

BUILDING A DIGITAL ARCHIVE Building a Digital Archive: A Documentary Essay is a twelve-chapter reference work with appendices covering origins, archive growth, statistics, torrent architecture, digital preservation, technical infrastructure, achievements, and reference materials.

RELIABILITY AND LIMITATIONS The publication relies mainly on creator-supplied dashboards, catalog exports, torrent metadata, directory reports, screenshots, and narrative summaries. For an actual Wikipedia submission, significant coverage in reliable, independent published sources would still be required.

REFERENCES 1. Liz Young, Building a Digital Archive: A Documentary Essay, pp. 1-17. 2. Appendix I, Preliminary Video Catalog Analysis, pp. 8-10. 3. Appendix N, Creator Ranking History and Global Performance, p. 11. 4. Appendix III, Torrent Distribution and Preservation Infrastructure, p. 12. 5. Appendix 4, Multi-Volume Local Archive Inventory and Capacity Analysis, pp. 13-16. 6. AbOUT the Author, p. 17.