Gypsy Rose Blanchard

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.

They're going to build you up and tear you down.

So after so many months, I started to see people trying to tear me down.

And in the mix of all that, I was also on parole.

And so my parole officer, um,

had told me that it would probably be in my best interest if I would just stay off social media.

It wasn't a direct order.

It was a suggestion.

And so that's when I deleted the 9 million follower Instagram, but maintained the, you know, 9 million, 10 million followers.

TikTok account.

And so that's what kind of sparked that decision was just because I was tired of all the harassing phone calls that people were making to my parole officer falsely reporting me for anything and everything.