How it’s like being Ambitious and wanting to be an Influencer in School
By: Shakti Ann Kanyal (11th Grade)
Now from the title you know I’m about to get clowned. I put myself out there, not to be a joke, but because my passion is making content. As you know, you can get famous overnight, but for me it’s more like a long haul story. I make content, I would say every month, but people clown me so hard. And that’s fine now I can handle it, but when I was younger it was a bit harder. In elementary school I would make videos reviewing the James Charles Palette or yk play Animal Jam. AND people you’d destroy me, they’d either quote what I said (which wasn’t bad, that is funny) but the worst was they would take clips of me talking and make horrible caught in 4k meme videos. Imagine you mid sentence, or in the middle of a bite and people string that together into a horrible video with some rude caption “Big forehead” or “Big mouth”. That was my life, now I can handle it because I know my videos are out there and sometimes I can’t even rewatch my stuff 😂but I do it for entertainment, and that’s what get views. You have to be a little out there. What I did though to not let the rude words, or comments about my body size etc get to me was realize this: you are the one putting yourself out there, chasing your dreams, and the people making fun of you are sitting there trying to find flaws while you are going out there, and getting it done.
-SK (Grade 11)