Page 6 - My FlipBook

Fit started recording: “What up, freaks? This is Fitted Sheet,
back by popular demand.”
She started the beat and launched into her lyrics, calling
out the characters for being rich and spoiled. Making fun of the
show was easier than telling the truth, that watching reruns of
90210 made her envious. When she saw the characters’ large
houses with perfectly cut lawns she couldn’t help but compare
her own life to theirs. She ached for money, a normal life, but
thanks to her mother, she’d never have any of those things.
The rap was longer than the first one, taking her eight tries
to get it right. She uploaded it and within the first hour it had
more than five hundred views. In a day it was at three thousand,
and over the next week it bounced around the internet, taking
only six days to surpass her first video.
have i gone viral? #awesome
Over the course of the next few months, Fit continued
to make and post videos. She started off with one upload a
week, but soon that wasn’t enough for her fans. We want more,
they’d write in the comments section. So, in addition to her
weekly TV show song, she’d post a random video that had no
rhyme or reason. In one she pretended to be a beauty guru
giving a makeup tutorial that ended up with the result looking
like horrifying clown makeup. Or sometimes she’d just talk
to the camera in a stream of consciousness, unloading all her
thoughts, unfiltered. No matter what type of video it was, Fit
always wore something made out of tinfoil. People loved her.
She gained more subscribers by the day, and each video she
posted got more views than the previous one.
She also started to get a check from YouTube every couple
of weeks. Most of her videos contained cursing, which low-
ered her ad value or demonetized her content altogether, so
the payments were rarely over a hundred dollars. The money

20

FLUX_TIN_FPGS.indd 20 2/21/19 1:39 PM