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Fit hadn’t set out to become a YouTube star; it just sort of hap-
pened. Her first video sprang purely from boredom during the
February break of her junior year. Frankie had won a scholarship
to an art camp in Washington, DC, and Diamond had gotten
a new boyfriend, Riley, and was spending all her time with
him. And Dubs was pulling doubles at the casino all week. So,
Fit spent three days alone, binge-watching Law & Order SVU.
Toward the end of the third day she grew restless and decided to
dye her hair. Dubs never allowed her to pierce anything other
than her earlobes, but he let her have free reign with the color
of her mass of curls. She’d had blue, pink, green, but that day
she was feeling purple.
She walked the cold mile to the drugstore and picked out
the most vibrant shade she could find, a color called “Precious
Purple,” that claimed on the package to be designed for bru-
nettes. Back home, she watched a YouTube tutorial on how
to give herself highlights, then got to work. As she slathered
chunks of her hair with purple dye and wrapped them in tinfoil,
she began to write rap lyrics about one of the characters from
Law & Order SVU in her head. She loved writing lyrics, setting
them to a beat, performing them for Frankie and Diamond.
By the time Fit had put the last bit of dye in her hair, she had
the lyrics planned out and decided to record the song during
the fifteen to twenty minutes she had to wait for the color to
set. Even if Frankie and Diamond were gone, she still wanted

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