Haha this thread is funny to me, me and sisy used to watch Raya when she went by GirlGoneGamer and she did vanilla YouTube vlogs and skits, she was kinda funny and relatable and stuff back then.
She also had Q&A videos and one had a "are you ticklish" question these kinda things tend to attract. I remember her answer as it was quite relatable to me.
She said something like "This is kinda weird, but I am not ticklish at all, like anywhere. Not here (pointing to her sides) then she made fun of other girls who go "haha" when you squeeze them there, not on my feet. Maybe a little if you squeeze just above my knee but like not really, I'm just not ticklish. I think it's because I was ticklish growing up, and this was really bad guys, my sister and her friends would like pin me down and tickle me two or three times a week because they thought it was funny, but then I just stopped giving them that reaction they wanted you know and it stopped feeling ticklish, learned to control it and they couldn't get me anymore."
I also remember seeimg a tweet from her, and again it stuck with me because it was relatable that said something like "Recently I have been getting people threatening to tickle me when we meet, but I'm not ticklish #bringiton #unticklish"
Both that q&a and tweet where very relatable to me and thus memorable to me as they are very similar to my experiences. Bunch of people where always either threatening to or actually trying to tickle me (including sisy and her friends in the sane way Raya described) but where unsuccessful. Only difference is I didn't have to learn not to be ticklish, I never was (and lucky for me given my sassy nature am still not).
Her old GirlGoneGamer YouTube and Twitter are private now, I guess she didn't want her new fetish content fans knowing she is not ticklish (and I suppose closing what was an old chapter in her life or something).
She had a fan base that grew up with her, that's probably a powerful draw. She knows how to act and it's pretty easy to fake a laugh / fake it tickles when your not ticklish or hardly ticklish. Especially easy if people want it to be true that there crush growing up is ticklish.
Guess she figured she could make some quick money faking being ticklish given she had a built in "wants it to be true" kinda audience.