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So Joanna like say Justin gate, well, everyone that follows me Daphne follows you because you would like way more followers and I feel like they would cross over a little bit. But Joanna describe kind of who you are like what I see, but you know what I mean? Oh, that's such art much. I'm sorry. Okay, you're just like everyone meet Molly actually already know each other in laws. So if we were if we reference anyone that we both know is because we're actually related so I mean like what do you do like Like I know what you do. OK Kalyn is basically Instagram famous. She has a slick Instagram. Your status says cool. Your aesthetic is like clouds rainbows and blue skies. You know, I love a blue sky like we love God like he was just so good. And I love that kind of a good kind of unfiltered happy. It's not like me on a nighttime or maybe a few times it is but I feel like it's just you have a very nice. Grid I do. Have a nice. Like my grid now ya see, I would be my captions now, I wouldn't be into smelled or like quotes and my captions. I don't know. I can't do Chi captions just freaked me out. No, literally the wouldn't be grabbing my boobs on my Instagram if anyone's reference at ke underscore Mo n I'm grabbing my boobs. It's a timer cam in the car with my mom. I was like the lighting so good. I can't miss this opportunity. My mom was you driving like are you doing meditation as me? She's like are you because I cross my legs. I try to get the position. I was like, what am I captain? This is like literally me taking a Time account. Big grabbing my boobs. Like that's what it is. But I feel like if I will be like me and anxiously waiting for the dart, but that's like hashtag relatable. People would love that. No, that's unlucky laughing. Oh no idea. That's hilarious like dude. Have you like that would just turn into like a series of my anxiety and I tried to like come off as happy and like my I'm a happy person, but I'm like happy. Like the constantly rushing. This thing's me so early like that's like mean another job. I feel like I just feel like I don't know. I don't know. What am I talking right now? You just be unapologetically yourself Molly. Yeah. I know because I know from I know from me to you. You're like, you're like, I can't even decide that. I'm so sorry like you're having a conversation with me. Like, I'm sorry. I take it back or take back that whole conversation. I post and delete so much. Oh my god. Oh, do you yeah. Oh so much. I'm like, I don't know. But it won't be because they'll be like, oh, I don't like that photo mmm. It'll be like something so Random. I'll just be like, oh, I don't know. I just I freaked out. I'm a freaking you are freaking. Yeah that oh, you need to know but like that's part of your character. Yeah. I think it's enjoyable. Maybe just keep it like yeah. I don't even know I needed this is supposed to be that you we're just like this if you have a YouTube I have to YouTube's I have to install Um, I used to know the reason I have followers because out of Snapchat account dries. Jamie said this as well. This is how I got my nose and I'm doing quotation marks if you're not watching this and I'm doing quotation marks. Also. I hope my sarcasm like reads in a podcast it does. I'm very sarcastic. So basically I started a soda because I was friends with Jamie a YouTube channel before this and I was like really just I was kind of just like watching other YouTubers and copying them because I was like I wanted to do that too, but I wasn't being myself. I was just like I'm just gonna copy other people I like hope that I get the audience, right? Yeah, so then I started a Snapchat and because it's like unfiltered you don't have to edit it and you don't have to you know, when you're editing I'd say you see this is our when you're editing your podcast. You're like, oh you're really critical of yourself. Yeah, so you could add a lot. So it's basically not even showing the real you kind of what you will never use that much butter. You know what I mean? No, and also mine is normally other people talking but I've tried to film but videos by myself and just never post them exactly. So you're just if you re-watch something you're not going to be your true instant like Instinctual self. Yeah. So when I started the Snapchat, I was just like I would talk about anything. My first story was like how I used to fish for drink when I was 15 and then the second one was losing my virginity and I just got like Hugh and everyone's like this is gas. Like no one on the Internet is like this. Yeah, but like this is bizarre. Why doesn't anyone talk about this which I find bizarre because you'd I talk so loudly I'd be on the dark side me and my all my gay friends if you like. Oh, you've got fisted us are you can edit that out so visceral of me. Even I don't even think it has to be like people like people our age are into the same things would be really kind of they wouldn't talk about that. You know what I mean? Yeah, it's weird because maybe in there likes private sphere they might and they might be online but they never talk about things like that like me included kind of I mean, I feel like I do open up quite a bit, but I Can you do this? Yeah, but I things like talking about like losing your virginity and like fishing for drink. It's literally something everyone can relate to yeah, so it just like makes kind sometimes I'm like, why do people pretend that they're not like a sexual being or that they were never like that or it's like with the whole drug saying that I can always me so much and it did talk about drugs as well and different experiences because teenagers actually don't have any idea what like narcs are like in Dublin they have No idea like no one's teaching him this. Yeah, it's just in school. You're like don't do drugs and no one's being like this is the effect of this one. Yeah. This is where you shouldn't by offering. Yes, even if they even to dude safely exactly like even they can still say don't do drugs. I mean, that's so fairly. Yeah, but tell tell us why you know what? I mean? Like there should be educated like they're just here to death. Yeah, I drug user when you're in school is like a heroin addict on the streets, which is obviously a drug use As well and it's super super sad a huge problem in Ireland, but there's like no middle ground. Not that they should be saying oh by the way loads of your peers in the future will be doing drugs. I don't expect that but I saying why it's dangerous because then you get to an age and everyone's doing drugs. You might feel peer pressured into it or you might not and you literally especially Irish people like Irish people don't really think about things they just like go fresh. There's like I want the ball. Yeah. It's so dangerous. Is that because there's no Like testing kits there's nothing Clubs closed at have to then you're after and after is of person. You don't know like raves illegal Rave are coming up in the world. Yeah. Well, hopefully like that all gets sorted next couple years, but it just annoys me so much and then I remember with bloggers and veiled so many people were getting like busted for like my denial texting and dealer. Mmm and they'd be like, oh, I don't do it and it's like, okay. Well you clearly do so you might as well just talk about it. Like you could actually get people really on your side by like being someone to talk about it, right? So it started with Snapchat. Yes our Snapchat then it blew off and then I started hating it because I was getting an audience that I didn't really want. It was like 12 year olds and then I'd be talking about inappropriate things. Okay, so it's gone and then I got Mom's Taxi me being like I don't know. That's what your fault I know it's not my fault, but I was still like just lead us. Okay, and it's really instant they reply because you can replace you right away and I just wasn't able to handle it. Hmm. And then like people were coming up to me being like Oh, I know your ex-boyfriend is because I had a story about my ex-boyfriend like being abusive to me and then I was like, Like attacked for that. It was like the worst thing ever. I think after that I deleted my Snapchat and then I were good. Yeah, I like deleted the whole thing and it's a dying up anyway, so yeah, you know what? I mean? It's literally Dad. Yeah, so that's basically where it started and then people were coming up to me being like you're like my guilty pleasure and I was like, I know night I know I was like is that complementarity and it's like a backhanded compliment? Yeah, and I know I'm an acquired taste because I've been pretty outspoken. Like, I think people think I'm We're lucky that I actually am it's just like I'm open about being myself. It's just that you're honest. Yeah, I don't think you're even that wacky or I'd spoken like you're just like, oh my God, she's crazy. Like well, you're not crazy in a nice way, but you're like you're fun, but you're not like I don't know maybe people aren't and find you outrageous because no one else is being authentic or transparent. So maybe that was getting followers. I never was like I want to get Get sent free stuff and sell it on the internet for other people. This is my girl. I never want to quit my day job to do to work on the internet that is not something that you've worked the whole way through all of this. Oh, I've always worked and I'm never I even if I had a million followers, I still wouldn't quit my day job. I don't want to sell people products on the Internet. It's not a vocation at all. And that shouldn't be a passion. I don't want my followers thinking that's a passion and be yeah, I wanna girls like I don't I don't think it's like bad. If you align yourself with something you like. You're really passionate about like say a vintage. For something more like oh we really want to send you that so you'd be like, yeah, what do you or no? Yeah, I take second-hand clothes. Yeah, okay, but I to be honest like I don't accept store for if I liked it. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, but I lie In fairness no one really sends me anything because in my Captain's I'm like cursing all the time and I don't look like a sellable person. Well, I think I'd I think that you I don't know it seems vintage shops in second hand shops and kind of deep pop shops. They don't really do that kind of PR. No, they don't but I think if they did like you Be the absolute perfect your so that look you're so that I feel like the media that shops anyway, yeah. No, but that's what I'm saying because like they obviously know you're into it. You know what I mean? Where is like if someone else is into certain like fast-fashion Brands you can kind of tell that that's their style. Anyway, you know what I mean? So you could tell that you shop and like vintage shops and like cool probably smaller shops. You got me. So so it's hard to tag your clothes and like it's hard to be a blogger when you chose exactly. Yeah. It's really annoying. Yeah. I don't wear polyester. Yeah takes like I don't I think that I first polyester clothing those has ever been made as still like in perfect condition. Yeah, it's so scaffold. Yeah the worst and I'm like, yeah, I always think that like I don't get too much into it because I don't think it's like that Society. I don't shame people for doing some people just like love those clothes and that's their goal and they like attain that goal and that's amazing, but for me, And I used to buy from those Heights all the time. So, you know, but for me, I just can't imagine promoting something that then like you're responsible. So then like the brand comes back to you and says congratulations, you've actually salt made us sell a hundred thousand body suits made out of this material so that you're actually responsible for that like never rotting. Yeah to get me that just sometimes I'm like sometimes I'm like, maybe they don't know they don't know but I feel like these Bloggers are always talking about how they're saving the planet and stuff. Like I feel like the majority tomorrow and they're like, oh I'm doing great and I'm sending a good message. See I don't follow that many. I follow smell a few small ones know from Ireland and this is what I've gathered and they like say openly they're like, I'm they romanticize insecurities. They romanticize anxiety to be more relatable to younger teenagers. This is what you mean by you know, not what you mean by romanticize like if you're like talk met someone I have no clue who you're not anyone in okay, okay. Like I feel like it's just a formula that people create. Okay heads and this is how I'm going to get followers. Okay, I'm gonna do it but it's subconscious like that. I know they don't know they're doing it. Okay. So basically they put up a post and be like, I've worked so hard like, you know, the big message the big long captions basically either like a transformation thing or like I was bullied in school That's a classic one and then it's just like do not think see I would never think of As romanticizing I do I only do know because I realized that when these people get followers and then they start to promote like the brands that they want and then they they lose themselves completely. Okay. That is the that's the in their head. They're like, this is how I got followers. So I'm going to keep doing it. Okay, and I feel like only maybe in a few weeks. I've kind of realized this. Okay via, I don't know. No I get what you mean. Sorry. I'm just like trying I'm just like processing this because I definitely sometimes times will see it's more like on my captions of my podcast. I like described on my podcast about and generally sometime like most that I'm well recently. Anyway, all my podcasts have been surrounded by just because my last three know my last for a podcast the first one was up literally talking to a girl about and the body because that was like her thing then another one was about eating disorders and then another one was about a guy who was gay growing up in like a football football like atmosphere. Yeah. So then I feel like it turned then like after like obviously I'm going to promote that post yet. Obviously. Yeah, but I yeah I get what you mean in a sense. It's like if you're kind of talking about it all the time and then you just drop it once you get like PR packages, but yeah seems fake to me. Yeah, I got you. I totally cannot the saying this about you. I'm literally just say no. No, I know. I don't know this. I don't know what I like to just I'm just like yeah because I totally know I totally know that and I feel like with Irish there's some iron. It influences that promote literally like and I have no problem with face tuning or anything because if you want to do that, like go ahead and do it and I hate when people shame people for us, but then in the same breath like will post about yeah like being insecure because you see perfect people on Instagram that does annoy me and I don't think I'd only can think of like one person who does that and I feel like they have they got a hard time from bloggers unveiled. Oh, yeah, but like I was never really involved in that. Pay attention to any of it was so scary. Oh my God, like I actually sometimes I'd be like like oh, yeah and I all the drama's well, I just like missed that one for some reason I was supposed to but I was off the radar on value. We actually missed all oh, I never all of them or anything. Would you ever get scared of like kind of being see you are so honest about anything you don't do right now. Everyone's a hypocrite like yeah. I definitely made mistakes in the past people have sent me stuff that I've said before. I like especially for my Snapchat because I'd say one thing and then like a few months later growing up. Yeah exactly because I was young when I started doing it. So just happens but everyone's a hypocrite. Yeah, like everyone is just like makes mistakes, but I'm learning and I actually want to be a better person like openly say yeah, I think myself and I wanted you about lip fillers. Yeah, like explain if someone hasn't seen it. So basically I when I started my soft and had a big following I had a big Spiel on us and how like bloggers are getting lip fillers and fillers and kind of promoting it and be like, I'm gonna and this is It's another thing on how to get followers. I need to look perfect. So the people follow me because it's like the aesthetic and I never wanted to sell that a promote that so I basically ripped into lip fillers on my story and then few months don't know actually like a year down the line I end up getting fillers. So there's a huge contradiction on my purse and I'm fully like admit that but I because I was so honest about it. I kind of I'm forgiving myself. It's kind of I hate to Forget You know, I feel like I had to justify it. It to myself because I tell you Dean but I love that video because we are still growing up and you know, the way you see like people got like demoted from something or something was taken off them because the Tweet they did when they were like 14 or something. I don't know. I love how you were honest about that in that video. And if you haven't seen it like go watch it right now because you're like look, this is why I and you said the actual reasons that girls can feel insecure and I feel like some people could be like, oh, I can't believe she said that but it's the truth is the truth and What every girl has gone through like maybe they haven't gotten lip fillers, but I like maybe you know, but they maybe have done something else. I can put on a little more Foundation that day or something like try to lose weight as well. We've all been there like we have all been there and it I mean at the end of the day, it's promoted all over Instagram and you weren't like owed a 10% discount if you go to whoever yeah, you know what I mean? And that's what I feel like you were criticizing more than people just getting them ya know because I didn't want people to think that if you got fillers you'd make it would feel better about yourself because I wasn't secure after getting fillers. It's something have to fix in your own brain. Yeah to yourself. Yeah, and I literally therapy is not going to fix up because they don't know what's inside your head and there's no way they can read your brain. You have to literally rewire your own brain. I feel like you have to be ready for therapy if you do therapy. Oh, yeah, you know what? I mean? Like, it's definitely like the most used tool to heal people, but it didn't work. Because when I went mmm, I wasn't ready to talk to someone and I was angry I was so angry, but that doesn't mean like yeah, like the I completely agree with you, but I feel like people would take that the wrong way cause I've already had a comment about me saying I pair of you didn't work for me, but I really didn't work for me either. Yeah. I feel like you actually have to carry yourself. I do believe that. I feel like you have to work with yourself. And if anything else is like extra, but you like first have to obviously acknowledge that something's going on. Hmm. But like yeah, love I just Like it's hard. Like I was saying that I was a metaphor for it yet. But you know, I just named him but the other day I was like Ariana goes in by the way. I was like, I wonder what I am whatever not feel anxious and then he was like, well, that's a pretty scary thing. I always like like I just do I don't know why I said that sometimes I'm like, why do I say zorc? This is what we're talking about. And was there any been any videos where you're like, oh like taking a day. Everything I talked to anyone how to lose weight without exercising. Okay. I had a video up like basically how you eat and I just it's not I just didn't want that on my channel. And yeah. No, when did when did you take it down after I uploaded the live injections video? Really? Yeah. I was just looking to my channel and that's the only thing that I was like, it doesn't feel like me something that I should even be promoting. Like is that amazing and then like that just shows how much you've grown like, when did you start all this? Like two years ago two years ago. I like what I do then what age you know, I'm 21 now. So I was 19. I'd left school and like I didn't really have I had friends but like a day didn't they weren't my people? Yeah, if that makes sense because he was thrown into it like a building with people. I know like I know like I didn't relate to them at I was kind of just molding myself into the group. So I was shaving myself in a different way and I feel like I have so much creativity and my brain and needed to do something. Hmm. And so I started a YouTube channel and Then people liked it people love it. Like how many's you have like four thousand and something I gotta tell you those and after the live in Jackson video did you yeah, I feel like I'm you're more yourself. If you're telling people like it when you're kind of like put yourself in a vulnerable position people kind of trust you almost she got me. I like I feel like some people use that to their advantage like what we were talking about actually like what you were saying, but you know, if you're being completely authentic and transparent and like your videos and like sponsored you What I mean not like it's like yeah, it's like Kendall Jenner with them. What what's it called proactive? Oh the skin. Yeah. Like I just I don't know why I just said that but like it's like I feel like cause I feel like people like you because first of all you're nice person and you're just like fun like your videos are just fun to watch but also because you put yourself out there, so there's nothing that people can comment you get me. Yeah, like people can't be like, oh Yuri, Just put yourself out there, you know like haha. You're the worst. Yeah, I might with my gay friends and like Tony's would rock Walk by and be like, haha queer and I'm like, that's a good one. Yeah, it's pointing out the obvious. But like I feel like you do proposed a lot of personal stuff. So you ever kind of regret that or you you ever like passing like a friend or like meeting up with it? I don't know meeting up with someone they say, oh I saw your video at this. I am really shocked you there that or yeah, would you be like Like oh shit, or would you just be like, yeah. No, I'd be totally other than I'd follow on with us. Yeah talk about myself more. But the thing is you have to be really careful not to involve other people because I like talking about my life, but I don't want to talk about people who are more private and I was kind of doing that when I had Snapchat and my family were kind of like Caitlin honestly, like take it down a notch, you know what I mean? So I'm just trying to keep more talking about my own personal experience. Yes and not involving anyone else. Yeah, you're saying as you were walking up that you're like You find you're not posting as much because you almost have your group of friends know that you like you love. Yeah, what like explain that more. So because I had the YouTube channel on you just had like my boyfriend and that was I was really codependent. Yeah. I am and then I got a job and literally made like all of my best friends in the whole world. I found my people basically my soul mates. Yeah. I was just so happy with life. I didn't feel the need to post and I didn't want people's attention. Yeah. I wanted to feel liked I got you putting myself in the internet because I because the thing was I didn't have any fur. I felt like I had no friends, but I also loved myself. So it was really confusing from a brain. It's like why don't I have people that like me hmm enough, but then when I found my people I'm like I are actually the best ever. Yeah and I love my friends so much, but now that I'm like really secure myself and I have extra time. I'm kind of like I have I feel like I have important things to say and I want to use my platform to say important. Rather than sell people products. Yeah, which I think is different on no one else is doing you're just like their goal is to get a lot of followers that they can quit the day job like I so get that I do understand what you mean by that but I just think that's something so many people can relate to like, I definitely since I drew since I went to college and then like kind of slowly gradually now, I feel like I've found different group of people to the people. I may have grown up with and and it's not that I have anything against those people. It's just like you're you're actually just not supposed to be friends. Some people same they're just different so that I didn't like them. Yeah. It's like I couldn't get on like we got the conversation was never flowing. I felt like I was having fun. Yeah. I got myself and I like literally I'd be with people who were when I was in a group. They were like my best friends by be with them individually and I couldn't look at me like the I did. Yeah and it's like well, I don't really know you and like that's not a criticism on them because I was completely me but I felt then as I like I just be happy I'd like I'd like put on something funky and then if you like, oh, I'll just very like jeans and I stopped. Yeah, I mean, I just like take it out. I don't know like I feel like that's something so many people can relate to and that's just like another reason why you're so relatable. Hashtag relatable a message for anyone who doesn't have any friends like yeah, it's not that you're not you're not like people yeah, or if you do have friends and you're like, I don't know the make you feel Like shit. Yeah, just either just like going to school just soldier soldier and I and join some sort of like it sounds so weird. But like I remember I went to acting and I was like, whoa, this is what normal people are like outside of my like Social Circle, you know what I mean? And I don't know it's so like did you do anything in school that I feel like you heard you two singing and Bim don't um, no I did that last year getting fashion boiling now. It is it no in Portobello. Oh my God snake. Is that what you want to do with like that's what I want to do. Yeah. Okay so like that he was so good at that. I know right. So how would you do that and in like a sustainable? Wait, do you even do like, do you know where am I? I don't know but apparently you can study fashion law, but it's in America for 20 grand at the moment. So but that's what I'd love to get into. I like dry sustainable fashion, but obviously I'm a big advocate for second-hand clothes bought companies are getting more into sustainable fashion. So like natural products and this is how I can actually make a difference if your work in it is one thing complaining about it and saying I'm doing my part by buying second hand clothes, but I actually can work in it now and say well I'm buying a hundred percent organic cotton for this brand and I'll change it like, oh my God, that is incredible healing. So that's like what you'd want to do. Yeah, I think because Brands will have to do that to me because I think this is just going to snowball. Have you noticed that? In the past two weeks, even you see it on so many more people Pages they are honestly people are just panicking now and I'm like, I literally said this from the beginning you morons, where know what like, I definitely I think I in the last two months ago. I was trying I was trying but then like I would see something I really liked and then I'm like, okay, I'll just buy that but now that I have like what have no money, but also is you see you when you have no money though as well. You're like, I actually have everything I need ya and you're like, well, I definitely just buy things. Things just for to use once or just when I feel sad. Yeah, exactly. Yeah inside it gives me such a better buzz to buy something off deep upper find something in a secondhand shop. That's like unreal. Yeah. I'm like, wow, this is like unique and no one else can have it like that. My sweater vests. God bless. Oh my God. I love your sad arrests. I love you changing hair buying. What's it? How do you like this is so random but like to finish. How do you keep your hair healthy? Um, I only wash it once a week. Okay and coconut oil in it all the time. It's like it. Oil in it all the time like right now that destroying us how you can all agree because it's so dry that like it just sucks it up and that's why it's like normal that's really taken to grow. So quick fast as well. Yeah because it grows so fast. I feel like you always have like a tiny little break because I love it. I love blond with a tiny Road. I hate like to the roof. Yeah. You got me. I always hate for like three days after. Yeah, I used to when I had blond hair. I used to like my recipe like you're like the opposite of everyone else because I'd be like, oh, I just want like my first little roof to come in yet and then for like two weeks is perfect and then us Just like dad again. Yeah, but do you do it all yourself? Yeah. Oh my God. I know can you come over and put my ear but no your high scores. My hair is like 12 different types of colors. So him em anyway, laughs and so Joanna finished with some advice save someone right now. I was like, I want to be a blogger. I want to be an influencer. Like, what does that entail thinking? It's like a really glamorous thing that once you have followers, you instantly have money. Why would you like say I'd say big fat? No. Yeah and do I think that's worth your while and also going to make you happy because being an influencer isn't going to like it's a shit you enough and no matter how much free stuff you got it. It's not going to fulfill whatever need that you have. Okay. Yeah. Yeah Megatron make a difference on be happy. I like that's never going to bring you true happiness, you know mean because it's a really it's a fleeting thing like Instagram could be on tomorrow. There could be new app, you know what I mean? Okay. Well, thank you so much for coming along and guys, please subscribe, and if you're from kalin's Channel, please subscribe. Grab to me. Yeah. Okay. Thank you so much. Oh my God. That was so good. Thank you so much to depop for sponsoring this podcast. 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