Gypsy Rose Blanchard

So it's kind of like I have had a love-hate relationship with social media.

There's so many people that do support me.

And then there's also so many people that are part of the anti-gyp community.

There is two different communities, which is wild.

Um, I say they are just as extreme as those who follow politics.

You have your pro-gypsy and your anti-gypsy, and they butt heads, they go to war.

It is a serious thing.

Like, it's wild.

Exactly.

It wasn't something that I was ready to take on at the time because I'm still even trying to figure out how a Keurig works.

I'm still trying to figure out how to navigate streaming because back in prison and before that, we had cable.

Streaming wasn't a thing, or at least it just started to be a thing that we didn't even have.

So coming out, I'm learning how to survive, gain independence.

When I first got out, I didn't even know how to drive.

So that was something that I was navigating too.

So it's like all of these normal things, I'm just learning.

So it's not like I had a foundation to be like, okay, yeah, I'm ready to tackle on being an advocate right now.

because I'm still trying to heal myself.

And a friend of mine had posed a question to me and

I thought about it long and hard, and the fact is that mainstream media, they want the story and to produce the story and put out the story when it's big and it's hot and it's fresh.