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Its January 2, 2009.
Two teenage girls, eyes ringed in black, stare deadpan to the camera.
New years, new tears.
And thus a meme was born.
The videos were clearly comedy, but the internet was a much different place in the late 2000s.
Commenters speculated about the alleged poser-dom of the trio, when they werent insulting their appearances or sexual orientation.
I had fallen in love with improv when I was, like, in seventh grade, I think.
I thought that a lot of the things that I liked had been cringy.
Because when I was 12, 14, 15, I never thought I was emo.
I wanted to be goth, basically.
But, in hindsight, I was totally emo, and now Im a grown-up emo, you know?
People just cant believe that we didnt writeMy Immortalor that we didnt have anything to do with it.
You guys received a lot of unwarranted backlash after originally releasing the videos.
Did that affect whether or not you wanted to pursue comedy?Um, yeah, actually.
I think it was pretty harmful for me.
And its something that I didnt really put together until, like, yesterday.
And … oh, God, I might cry.
A lot of fear and discouragement weighed me down, I guess.
Hell yeah, I shopped at Hot Topic.
No Hollister, though?No no no no no no no!
As I got older, I didnt really care as much.
I ended up getting rid of all of my personal social media by 2017.
I think I started in 2016 and just had it completely gone by 2017.
That was partially because of my career in sex work.
I was a lot more closed off about it than I am now.
And afterSESTA/FOSTApassed in 2018, that made it even harder to be on social media.
And now, after Raven, Im kind of learning to love it again.
She probably has a kid and is doing that whole cool-mom thing.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
