Life Updates: Canceled Collabs, Street Interview Results & My First Influencer Award Show Invite!

In this week’s episode, I’m sharing some major life updates! 🎉 From the results of my recent street interview to the last-minute cancellation of a food collaboration that was supposed to happen last Saturday, I’m taking you behind the scenes of what’s really been going on.

PLUS — I’ve been invited to my first influencer award show by Philadelphia Magazine this September! I also dive into this week’s main topic: social media, and how some people are using it for all the wrong reasons. Tune in for a real talk on authenticity, clout-chasing, and my evolving perspective on content creation.

Link to interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lQmHG8CogI

Transcript

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Hey everyone, my name is Brooke, your fellow podcaster from the East Coast, content creator, creative artist, and entrepreneur,  and welcome to my podcast, Blogger  with a Twist. So basically on my podcast, doing topics about lifestyle,  I may do a couple rants or story times about my life  or whatever comes to mind.

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So if any of you guys find that interesting,  definitely share the podcast, subscribe,  also tell your friends or family,  and last but not least,  get your favorite snacks, your popcorn, whatever you like to eat,  sit back and relax, and let's get this episode  poppin'.

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Hey you guys and welcome back to a brand new podcast episode and look I know I did not drop a new episode last week I am so sorry about that  I was kind of busy but also

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Op Flow made her monthly visit  and if you're a female then you know that the first couple days of your cycle  you don't really feel like doing a whole lot of stuff.  So I was being kind of lazy  but  despite that I did receive some good news last week.  So your girl got invited to her first influencer award show by Philadelphia Magazine and I am super excited about this opportunity.

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So now I'm trying to think what am I going to wear and stuff like that?  And then I'm also going to a networking conference in September as well, which is basically two days after the award show. So I'm just like, oh my gosh, September is starting to kind of get booked up, but I am definitely excited for the future.  And now I'm trying to make sure I have enough business cards and stuff like that. And then what else?  The street interview.

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I told you guys about last week the video is dropping this week and I'm so excited  For you guys to see that video because I really had a great time doing the interview  So I will leave a link in the description if you guys want to check that out Also, the last thing that happened.  I was supposed to go check out this food spot on Saturday that just passed but unfortunately it did not happen because we were supposed

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to me at 3 o'clock,  end up asking my boyfriend to come with me to help me do some filming  and so when we got there around 2 30 because I wanted to be on time  nobody was there so I ended up calling them

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and they basically told me that they had an emergency and they had to reschedule  and that somebody was supposed to reach out to me on Instagram  and I don't know I just kind of felt like my time was my time was wasted  and also the fact that I even bought my boyfriend

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I mean what if he has something to do and I asked him to come help me out and you guys don't even show up.  So now I'm just thinking well if I do decide to work with them again  they're going to work on my time schedule because I did have to  take off a half a day of work.  But despite that I did end up  doing some type of content that day.  My boyfriend and I went to go see Freakier Friday  at Cinemark Theaters and I really did enjoy the movie.

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So if you guys want to check out their real  check out my Instagram which is a blog in Philly  and then besides that you guys today's episode what I want to talk about is  my opinion on  social media  because I just feel like nowadays people use social media to either  over share too much information or to do stupid things to get a bunch of views to hold

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go viral and I just think in my opinion I feel like wasn't really intended for all of that but over the years people have not used it the right way so that being said if you guys want to know my  opinion on that then get your snacks and let's get this episode popping.  So when it comes to social media I feel like it was supposed to be used for helping people to promote their brand, raise awareness,  share

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information but like I said over the years it's just become more people doing stupid stuff or using it as their personal diary. The first social media app that I remember where I felt like people did things to try to get clout was Vine so I know I'm probably showing my age but if you're a millennial then you probably remember the app called Vine but

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challenge that went viral on Vine that I to this day will never understand  was the fire challenge. So basically with that challenge people would  take like a flammable liquid which was most likely nail polish remover  and they would pour it either all over their body or a portion of their body  and then light themselves.  And so I remember seeing this one video that this guy did inside his bathtub

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tub  and he poured the nail polish remover or some type of flammable liquid all over his body  lit himself on fire and of course I think he ended up suffering like either second or third degree burns and I feel like  from a common sense point of view  why would you think lighting yourself on fire is a good ideal even if you think you're gonna get a bunch of views and comments whatever  what if you could have died and now  half your

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burnt up and you six feet under  and you cannot even reap the benefits of what you just did.  I will say that the only challenge that I ever did which I never filmed  was the cinnamon challenge.  So with that one you basically take like a spoonful of cinnamon and you try to swallow it. Now at the time I didn't think nothing of it but then I realized later on that you can potentially choke.

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So yeah, that's as far as I went with the challenges, but yeah, the fire challenge, I never thought about doing that one. It did not make any sense. And also I like my skin. I'm not trying to barbecue my skin. It makes you think that people that some people, not everybody, but there are just some people that are willing to do just just about anything for a couple of seconds of fame, even if they are risking their lives. And that's why I feel like some people

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they don't know how to distinguish  social media from reality  because you gotta think about like this you think these people on internet are your friends and they stand at third and sometimes  they're not your friends they're just trolls  waiting for you  to  have your downfall  and even when it comes to some people over sharing too much information there be times I be on social media and I see some videos  and some

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them and some of them are really cringy. Like people forget that once you put something on the internet it's kind of on there forever because the minute somebody reshares that, downloads that,  and uploads it again to somewhere else and it starts getting distributed around the web you can't really stop it. It's gonna be kind of hard to stop it.  And then another thing I don't understand is when people put their stuff out there on the web and stuff like that

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and they may not like what people are saying then they get upset. My whole thing is this  when you put something out there on the web and stuff like that

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people are going to have opinions and you cannot control what people are going to say out their mouths and so I just feel like if you don't want the commentary you don't want the smoke then don't put it out there in the first place like I remember there was this video that came out a couple years back about this girl trying to make her baby daddy I guess seem like a deadbeat or whatever because he only

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food  for one of her kids.  I believe she has like four or five kids all together.  The baby daddy that brought the food  they only share one kid together.  So even though I don't have children of my own  I can understand where she was coming from as far as you know I have other kids like what about his other siblings. So I got that but at the same token okay. So at the end of the day it is not his responsibility

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to feed those other children.  If you wanted your other kids to have McDonald's then you should have gave him some money so he could get the kids McDonald's or contact your other baby daddies and get money so the other kids could get McDonald's. In the video the baby daddy or the one kid he even suggested well you know basically  if you don't want  him to eat the food around his other siblings he can come in a car with me and eat the food  which I felt like was

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valid proposal  but instead of her even taking that into consideration  she took  the food and basically threw it out in the street and I'm just thinking to myself okay you know you don't have any money  to feed your kids any food so  the one kid that could eat you just gonna starve him because  you don't want him to have McDonald's because the rest of your kids can't have McDonald's

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I don't know, I feel like in some ways that was kind of selfish of her. mean like...

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You really think you expect this man to feed all the rest your kids. Now maybe when they were together,  I could probably understand it more, but I feel like especially if you guys are not together, he is definitely not obligated to feed your other kids. And look, look, let me tell you, okay, McDonald's is not cheap anymore.  Over the years, fast food has gotten more expensive. Like I remember you could go  to McDonald's and get a meal for about 10,

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dollars nowadays if you go to McDonald's and get a whole meal you're paying close to $20 and God forbid you add on an apple pie some cookies or a McFlurry you're about like $25 so I'm just saying I understand him okay like what's the phrase our parents used to say we used to ask them oh can I get McDonald's what they say you got McDonald's money

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And even when people put their romantic relationships out there on the web, me personally feel like...

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The people on the internet can be a little bit too nosy in your business, especially if things go wrong in your relationship. Like the minute if you guys break up or whatever, people like flooding your comments like, my gosh, what happened? Oh, why did they do this to you? Are we going to get them? Whatever. And it's just kind of like chill. Like I get it. Y'all are coming here for my defense, but I got this. OK, I just would never put my boyfriend and I's relationship out

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there on the web like especially if we're having issues or anything I would not put out there on the web.

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Like not everything that happens in your relationship I feel like you need to put out there on the web but just in general I feel like some people we just need to you know get back to  it's okay to keep  certain things private and to have some discrepancy like you don't have to post everything about your life or what you're doing every single second of the day  like it's okay to have some mystery to yourself okay  not everything has to be open

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book.  The things you may want to put out there on the internet.

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you don't have to. Like I said, especially if you cannot handle what people are going to say about it, just don't say it. Because unfortunately, some people on the internet can be very rude and nasty. Especially when it comes to internet bullying. I have seen so many stories about people that have unfortunately taken our lives because of what people have said about them on the internet. And it's so sad that

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think that  what people can say to you can really affect you mentally. So that's why it's important to also especially if you are an influencer or  you are out there on social media or whatever, you need to have a thick skin because you cannot let what people say to you, especially on the internet, make you think that what they're saying about you or whatever is true. You would think that the internet is a good place and social media is a good place.

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but  you just have some evil people out here that their only goal is to make other people feel bad.

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And so I guess to conclude my thoughts on this topic, I just wanted to say that when it comes to social media, it's important that we use it correctly. We know how to distinguish it from reality, but also realizing that not everything that we have going on in our lives has to be on social media. And so that being said, if you guys enjoyed this episode, definitely share it.

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Check out the link in the description if you guys want to check out my street  interview and like I said before definitely follow me on Instagram and I will talk to you guys in my next episode. Peace.