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Alyssa Grenfell

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Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

lot of tension between are they christians aren't they christians so i think that that's another difficulty that they kind of have to interface with is that their content by its nature of being kind of traditionally minded appeals to this audience of of a more like conservative republican audience but if they're too overt about their specific religion i think you know if if you're viewing it which i do a little bit more as kind of like a brand that they're selling versus like their quote true real life or what

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

lot of tension between are they christians aren't they christians so i think that that's another difficulty that they kind of have to interface with is that their content by its nature of being kind of traditionally minded appeals to this audience of of a more like conservative republican audience but if they're too overt about their specific religion i think you know if if you're viewing it which i do a little bit more as kind of like a brand that they're selling versus like their quote true real life or what

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. You know, if they're just kind of waking up each morning, rolling out of bed, posting their pictures and not really wondering about audience retention or who sees what when and how can I reach the broadest number of people. So it's hard to get into the mind of these people, really.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. You know, if they're just kind of waking up each morning, rolling out of bed, posting their pictures and not really wondering about audience retention or who sees what when and how can I reach the broadest number of people. So it's hard to get into the mind of these people, really.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. You know, if they're just kind of waking up each morning, rolling out of bed, posting their pictures and not really wondering about audience retention or who sees what when and how can I reach the broadest number of people. So it's hard to get into the mind of these people, really.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

Yeah, every interview I've ever spoken to is like, why are there so many Mormon influencers? And I think they often ask it almost like in this secret, like, can you tell me the answer? Like, like I have this secret that I'm keeping. And if I could just explain it like, like then that would explain the phenomenon.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

Yeah, every interview I've ever spoken to is like, why are there so many Mormon influencers? And I think they often ask it almost like in this secret, like, can you tell me the answer? Like, like I have this secret that I'm keeping. And if I could just explain it like, like then that would explain the phenomenon.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

Yeah, every interview I've ever spoken to is like, why are there so many Mormon influencers? And I think they often ask it almost like in this secret, like, can you tell me the answer? Like, like I have this secret that I'm keeping. And if I could just explain it like, like then that would explain the phenomenon.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

And I think it's, you know, I think something like women journal and there was the mommy bloggers and blogging is like journaling. And then once they're blogging, then they're on Instagram and it feels easy to understand, but I agree. Like it feels kind of thin because it's,

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

And I think it's, you know, I think something like women journal and there was the mommy bloggers and blogging is like journaling. And then once they're blogging, then they're on Instagram and it feels easy to understand, but I agree. Like it feels kind of thin because it's,

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

And I think it's, you know, I think something like women journal and there was the mommy bloggers and blogging is like journaling. And then once they're blogging, then they're on Instagram and it feels easy to understand, but I agree. Like it feels kind of thin because it's,

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

Lots of people journal, and it doesn't mean that you're going to be famous one day just because you were journaling a lot when you were a little kid. But when I was posting my videos, especially initially, I'm still learning YouTube. I think my first YouTube video was like 10 months ago or something. I'm still under one year of learning this whole platform and stuff.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

Lots of people journal, and it doesn't mean that you're going to be famous one day just because you were journaling a lot when you were a little kid. But when I was posting my videos, especially initially, I'm still learning YouTube. I think my first YouTube video was like 10 months ago or something. I'm still under one year of learning this whole platform and stuff.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

Lots of people journal, and it doesn't mean that you're going to be famous one day just because you were journaling a lot when you were a little kid. But when I was posting my videos, especially initially, I'm still learning YouTube. I think my first YouTube video was like 10 months ago or something. I'm still under one year of learning this whole platform and stuff.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

But I would have people say, so funny, I just got an ad for the Mormon church while I was watching this video. And I... thinking, it's so funny that they are advertising on my content, which obviously, if you understand the back end, the Mormon church purchases ad space through Google, Google AdSense, and then Google AdSense looks for content that is relevant to put the ad on top of.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

But I would have people say, so funny, I just got an ad for the Mormon church while I was watching this video. And I... thinking, it's so funny that they are advertising on my content, which obviously, if you understand the back end, the Mormon church purchases ad space through Google, Google AdSense, and then Google AdSense looks for content that is relevant to put the ad on top of.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

But I would have people say, so funny, I just got an ad for the Mormon church while I was watching this video. And I... thinking, it's so funny that they are advertising on my content, which obviously, if you understand the back end, the Mormon church purchases ad space through Google, Google AdSense, and then Google AdSense looks for content that is relevant to put the ad on top of.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

So it's not like the Mormon church is saying, we like Alyssa Grenfell. Definitely not saying that. But the algorithm is basically looking for people saying Mormon, Mormon, Mormon, or Utah or whatever, and then putting their ad space, their ad spend behind that content. And I also kind of in tandem with that was on the YouTube subreddit and looking up stuff about YouTube and realizing that my

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

So it's not like the Mormon church is saying, we like Alyssa Grenfell. Definitely not saying that. But the algorithm is basically looking for people saying Mormon, Mormon, Mormon, or Utah or whatever, and then putting their ad space, their ad spend behind that content. And I also kind of in tandem with that was on the YouTube subreddit and looking up stuff about YouTube and realizing that my

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

So it's not like the Mormon church is saying, we like Alyssa Grenfell. Definitely not saying that. But the algorithm is basically looking for people saying Mormon, Mormon, Mormon, or Utah or whatever, and then putting their ad space, their ad spend behind that content. And I also kind of in tandem with that was on the YouTube subreddit and looking up stuff about YouTube and realizing that my