Sep 24, 2026 · 49 min · 11 segments
**TRIGGER WARNING:** This episode includes language involving sexual assault. A lot of you probably found me from a viral video of mine. In this episode, I share the behind the scenes of what was…
Brynne MarieHost
So I was there for kind of the first influencers and the first big boom of that, and all of that was happening while I was in middle school and high school, which are these very impressionable ages.
Even before that, I, I would play computer games on my computer in my parents' office, like Club Penguin, Stardoll, Webkinz, all of those, which in, in a way, some of those are kind of like social media.
Basically, you had an avatar and you would play dress up with it, essentially, and you could interact with other people on it.
It was a Disney computer game where you could go and you were interacting with real people, and I remember I had a little internet boyfriend when I was probably nine or 10 years old on that.
I would look up to influencers, and I remember thinking to myself, "How fun does that look? That looks like my dream" my dream date, Q, and he knew that.
I always thought that it would be such a fun career to have, and it seemed so, so intangible because growing up, when it was those first couple of few influencers, it wasn't really as big of a career path as it is today.
But growing up, I wanted to be a teacher, and I wanted to help people, and that was my main goal in life.
So I was there for kind of the first influencers and the first big boom of that, and all of that was happening while I was in middle school and high school, which are these very impressionable ages.
Even before that, I, I would play computer games on my computer in my parents' office, like Club Penguin, Stardoll, Webkinz, all of those, which in, in a way, some of those are kind of like social media.
Basically, you had an avatar and you would play dress up with it, essentially, and you could interact with other people on it.
It was a Disney computer game where you could go and you were interacting with real people, and I remember I had a little internet boyfriend when I was probably nine or 10 years old on that.
I would look up to influencers, and I remember thinking to myself, "How fun does that look? That looks like my dream" my dream date, Q, and he knew that.
I always thought that it would be such a fun career to have, and it seemed so, so intangible because growing up, when it was those first couple of few influencers, it wasn't really as big of a career path as it is today.
But growing up, I wanted to be a teacher, and I wanted to help people, and that was my main goal in life.
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