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Mikey Angelo

Mikey Angelo

Influencer and musician

Sep 29, 2026

18:15
Mm-hmm.
18:15
I'll never forget this.
18:17
I showed up to this influencer party that I never should have showed up to in the first place, but I was still very new to LA.
18:24
They had somebody at the door of this party che- like, checking people's follower counts and turning them away if they had less than, like, 10K or something.
18:37
And I was like, w- w- I was shocked.
18:39
I was like, so this is the kinda stuff that I was hearing about.
18:43
Like, you know, they always, before you move out here, they're like, "You gotta watch out for people, uh, you know, getting in the wrong circles, and it's all vapid influencers," and that was the first time that I was like, "Oh, maybe there is, like, a bit of truth to the-

24 MINS LATER

42:34
Where do you wanna go next?
17:50
Yeah.
17:51
So I was like, "I have to make the great transfer of 2020.
17:54
I'm gonna have to, like, switch everyone over somehow." And luckily, by God's force, by nature, I don't know how it happened, I, I just found, like, one video that went super viral that luckily, like, attached my YouTube- ...
18:11
following over to, and that's all it took.
18:13
Like, it was, like, kind of overnight, like, on TikTok that I started that, and now it's my biggest platform, so.

7 MINS LATER

24:58
[laughs] I'm just kidding.
25:00
Yeah, so the new, the current one right now is, um, that I really love, they're, they're calling it the orphan trend.
25:06
That's what it's called.

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