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My grandparents, though, were like, “It’s the internet. He told me, “You need to go where your job is, and your job is in California.” And I had to tell my dad that I’m moving to LA because I’ve made X amount of money in X amount of months, and it’s more money than I’ve seen in my entire life. It’s a very respectable position, and I got fired because I was dicking around on the internet. I worked in trust and investment services. My dad specifically kind of made me cry because I was mortified that I got fired. What’s the reaction to your fame been like from friends and family? We crammed so much into that week, and it just has not stopped since then. We were doing brand deals and we were doing press. By the time that I was in LA, I already had UTA on my team, so I had a meeting at the headquarters of every single social media platform. In early September, about a week after I got fired, I was flown out to LA by a kombucha company. I don’t have control over my own content anymore.” But basically, I got fired from my job. I was like, “I want you to know that this is happening and that it’s not me writing these captions that you’re seeing. My boss at the bank that I worked in found it. It went viral on gay Twitter, and people started captioning it with some explicit captions. I read that you got fired from your job after the kombucha video - why was that? It’s like, “Oh, my god, people perceive me?” I’d rather die than be perceived. It’s one thing to have like your friends send it to you and be like, “Oh, my god, you were in the New York Times,” but then to have a bunch of strangers be like, “Oh, she’s funny”? The worst thing is searching your name on social media and seeing people talk about you.
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I feel like I still haven’t really grasped the concept of being viral literally a year later, because I don’t know. When you posted your first viral video on TikTok, about your “depression meal,” when did you have that “Oh, shit, this is huge” moment? Trying Kombucha for the first time #foryoupage #foryou #fyp #AllBrandNew ♬ original sound - brittanyt445