Alix Earle

I think it's when I really started to post about my acne and then how I covered my acne with makeup is when I started to see like girls in my comment section and, you know, actual people, not just like bots with like little hearts.

And I was like, oh, wow, like this is really like connecting with people.

So I started to do it more and more.

And I then kind of had these get ready with me videos that I made myself.

for probably like a year or so before this.

And then I was going into my senior year of college and it was just like, here we go going into college.

And I think University of Miami is such a crazy experience.

In what way?

It's just, it's not real life.

Like being in the city of Miami and

you know, we're going to these like pool parties and then to a club and then it's on a boat.

And then it's like just everything we're doing just seems so surreal.

So I really started just storytelling of like my senior year of college, what I was doing, continuing to post about like my acne, bringing in my friends.

And it was really like through the fall, I started to grow an audience and grow followers.

And then I think it was when I went home for the holidays that

November December it like just hit a spike and I just like couldn't believe what was or it was Thanksgiving I had a million followers on Thanksgiving and I was sitting around with my family on the couch and we were watching like the numbers go up and then it was like it was nice because my whole family was there and my family was like what are you doing on there like why are people following you I was like I don't know but I'm gonna keep going with it what did your family say

um in the beginning they didn't understand and it was actually a there was a on ESPN on Christmas I had just broken up with a boyfriend then and ESPN was like the only person that's being talked about this week more than Santa is Alex Earl and my dad that's when my it caught my dad's attention he was like what's going on he was like what are you doing and people were sending it to my parents and they were like I really don't understand like what's she doing on there like what's what's happening and

But now my parents are very invested in TikTok and they're on it probably more than they should be.

They're watching it.

They're watching it.