Amelia Dimoldenberg

But it took years.

But I also was growing the show as all of these things we've been talking about are growing too, like the media landscape changing, people being more aware of content, people consuming content, TikTok being invented, like all of these different things.

So I've just grown with the times.

Yeah.

And now everyone's doing it.

Well, you're right.

Yeah.

I it's kind of shift changed in my mind.

It's like what it what it's been.

I think originally when I started it, it was because I just thought it was funnier to play this character.

Yeah.

That was sarcastic and kind of flipped between being like totally.

desperate to then being totally uninterested and that kind of pairing is just ultimately funny yeah and catches people off guard and I think that it has just worked but that was me playing up my natural personality at school like when I was at school I was much more sarcastic and deadpan and I definitely think that was a shield you know a shield to boys that were mean and and it worked you know I think boys at school sucked they and then they didn't come near me to the point

where then I was like, damn it, but I did actually want you to like me or be interested in me, but it's gone too far.

But I think it was just kind of like a self-defense mechanism that just kind of ended up being funny.

Yeah.

Right.

Not that I've heard of, but we don't give approvals.

But no, I've I've never had it that people have been upset with an edit because I'm always trying to edit the person to be more charming than they actually are.

funnier yeah like I'm doing them a favor yeah you are yeah so and I like that because that's what I want I want people to watch the episodes and to fall in love with this person like it's a dating show and yes it can be awkward and that's awkwardness is funny but that's also part of life and dating and I think that's what people connect with and I think me having this persona that I you know had as a younger person and kind of I'm kind of kind of growing out of it it's a point of difference that I