"It starts to become performative. I think when people start catering to the algorithm in terms of the type of content that they make, they stop making the content that they really want to do, because that doesn't get views."

"They're all quite true to what I am... every piece of my social media definitely has an actual piece of me in it."

"I think it also encouraged me to make, like, deep-rooted personality changes also, in just the way that I presented myself on a day-to-day basis. I think I was using a lot of the feedback I was getting on social media as a creator and using that to build my identity on a personal level."

"It would have done me less good than more good to reveal to the internet that I was, like, a Black kid."

"I remember my first reaction not even being that upset, and being like, wow, like, the Russians like me, that's good. But then I think I kind of was really deeply uncomfortable after realizing kind of the context, and where it was, and what it was being used for. And the fact that there wasn't a lot I could do about it was really uncomfortable..it's kind of one of those that, like, I just felt like I had to let...exist, and just sit there, like, I didn't know what to do."

I also am very privileged to be... you know, white guy. So, there are definitely different implications to being a woman or a girl online and...being a person of color."

""I grew up in like a very, very like Southern rural, like Christian area, so I did not really know what the LBQ+ was growing up. I actually found out what it was from shows and media... So just like the Internet, and also like being on the Internet helped me like, discover, discover more about the GBTQ [community]... I don't think I'd be half of where I am in my journey as a queer person without the Internet, like the Internet friends I made, and the Internet itself."

"I would pop out to the Dominican parade and do interviews there as well any like any social event. I'm always like repping my cultural background, and I feel like it... made me more like culturally aware, not only of my cultural background, but it also...kind of inspired me."

"My strategy was really to take those like smaller trends and then make them about queer content... if there wasn't anything about queer content, I would find a place to insert some sort of queer themed joke, because then it brought more of my audience to [my content]."

"Everyone knows they can poke fun about it because you put it out there."

"I've never had, like, a very impactful, negative experience online... But yeah, most of my instances were definitely offline."

"If I see [my friends], I'm like, I don't wanna, like, be embarrassed in front of them, because they're gonna be like, oh, I watched your video, I didn't like it, or something. And, you know, at that young age, you take... that criticism, especially when, like, you have the kind of insecure... like, the situations that I was put in."