Gypsy Rose Blanchard

Particularly, we were excited about the phone app.

So we were allowed to call our family on the tablet after so long.

And we were able to have like little games and stuff like that.

But it was not...

Right.

It is.

So when before I got out of prison, I had asked my then husband, now ex-husband, to create social media for me.

So Facebook, TikTok, Instagram.

So he had made these accounts for me.

So when I would get out, I would have access to them and already built a small following.

So I think right before I got out, I had like maybe 500 followers and then overnight it went into the millions.

Like we just kept watching it climb and climb and climb and it was wild.

And so for me, social media was something fun.

Like it was something that I got to do TikTok dances and little cute clothing hauls and stuff like this.

But there was also such a call to action for me to treat it more seriously.

as a platform to advocate.

And so here I am, fresh out of prison, don't even have my own feet on the ground, and people are like, you need to advocate.

You need to be basically what you are in a night.

Um, and that was a lot of pressure on me.

And then mix that with, you know, of course the internet's going to do what the internet's going to do.