MAJOR TV networks stand accused of creating too few roles for people from Australia's ethnic mix. Firass Dirani, who portrayed John Ibrahim in Channel Nine's Underbelly: The Golden Mile and New Zealand actor Jay Laga'aia, recently cut from Home and Away, have slammed racial tokenism on television.

But viewers of the democratised online platform YouTube see a different representation of Australia.

More of them log on to Natalie Tran's channel on YouTube than any other. Ms Tran, 25, who lives in Sydney and has a Vietnamese background, is at the top of the list of the most subscribed to channels in Australia. Her witty and instructive video blogs have earned her hundreds of millions of viewers globally - and a large salary.

Her 212 videos have been viewed 411 million times, while her most popular video, How to Fake a Six Pack, has gained 34.5 million views since it was uploaded in 2008. The basic, sarcastic video shows Ms Tran drawing fake abdominal muscles on her bare stomach, accompanied by classical music. It has become the second-most viewed YouTube video in Australia behind Gotye and Kimbra's 2011 smash song Somebody That I Used to Know, which attracted 94.8 million views.