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Salish Matter and seven of her closest friends are gearing up to compete in the creator’s first-ever holiday Netflix special, called Salish’s 12 Games of Christmas
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Her father Jordan Matter hosts the cabin-set competition, which challenges the young players to identify hidden impostors
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Speaking exclusively with PEOPLE, the viral father-daughter duo says filming together remains a meaningful way to make family memories
Salish Matter is gearing up for the holidays with her family!
On Nov. 28, the viral 16-year-old will join seven of her closest friends as they compete on the creator’s first-ever holiday-themed Netflix show, Salish’s 12 Games of Christmas. The friend group will participate in holiday games for the chance to earn a “mountain of Christmas presents,” an official synopsis from the streamer shares.
The show will be hosted by Salish’s father, Jordan Matter, whose YouTube channel helped to skyrocket the Gen Alpha creator to insane Internet fame before she ultimately started her own channels.
PEOPLE has an exclusive first look at the cozy, cabin Christmas retreat-themed special, where the friends will be tasked with deducing who among them is the impostor, sabotaging their success.
Salish Matter in her ’12 Games of Christmas’ special.
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Speaking exclusively with PEOPLE, the young creator shares how excited she is to continue working with her father in new and more exciting capacities.
“We’ve been making videos together for six years, and it’s always super fun,” she says. “Filming our Netflix show didn’t feel much different from making a video, except that it was on a much bigger set with a lot more people. But we were still having a bunch of fun together.”
Her father, Jordan, 59, adds that after so many years working together on content, their work together has really just become an “opportunity to make a lot of memories.”
“I don’t know how many more years we will be on screen together, and I want to soak up every moment. It’s truly magical,” he says. The holiday theme of the special is also right up the alley of the father-daughter duo, who tell PEOPLE that the holiday time of the year is their “favorite two weeks of the year.”
Most years, they spend time skiing in Colorado before the family — consisting of Jordan, Salish, Salish’s mom Lauren, and brother Hudson — flies to Baltimore to visit the children’s grandparents. They also tell PEOPLE that they make a point to stop by New York City over the holidays to soak up some of that Christmas spirit.
The Matter family’s dynamic is at the center of their online social media content. Salish first began her stint online while appearing in her dad’s YouTube videos back in 2018, where she would participate in popular lifestyle and challenge content. Over the years, she’s grown and grown in popularity, and now boasts 5 million followers on Instagram and nearly 9 million on TikTok. In 2025, she earned Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Award for Favorite Female Creator, and three seasons of her and her father’s show, Salish & Jordan Matter, were released on Netflix in 2026.
Salish Matter.
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Working on their holiday game show was “next level,” the two tell PEOPLE. “We kept the fun and spontaneity from our YouTube channel, but it was elevated with production, crew, budget, time, everything. It is definitely one of my very favorite memories.”
Salish adds that working with her friends specifically on the project felt like being at “summer camp” (only in the wintertime). She describes nights spent staying at the same hotel for filming, where the kids would be up until 3 a.m. “every night after filming, running around the halls and hanging out in each other’s rooms.”
Though she admits that the group “didn’t sleep much,” they still had an “incredible time.”
“Somehow, even though we were together all day and night, nobody had any idea who the impostors were,” adds Salish. “It was a well-kept secret until the end.”
The pair are excited for viewers to tune into The 12 Games of Christmas in the same way that they find themselves watching holiday specials as a family each year: by making hot chocolate, snuggling up on the couch and seeing who can be first to guess the impostors.
“It’s so crazy because last Christmas, we were all in the basement obsessing over the final episodes of Stranger Things,” the pair recall. “And now we have our own show, and hopefully families will have the same kind of memories watching it.”
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