Let’s Talk Coachella, Justin Beiber, NICOLANDRIA, Bran Flakez & more | AITL?! EP 58

Welcome back to my two loud the podcast with Sophie aka the mother freaking audity Welcome to a my two loud the podcast Where in the world is Sophie today? I'm channeling my inner meddling RG Argi She's a British creator and she usually does her podcasts like anywhere. She has this podcast pretty lonesome On that podcast I feel like she's literally she could be in a car she could be on her bed She could be anywhere. So your girl is currently oh my god first of all guys. Okay sidebar I just ate some jell-of-rice so I am pretty full I'm trying not to have a little tummy situation going on But welcome back to my two loud the podcast. I have missed you guys so much I feel like I have not recorded in about two weeks because we had a per recorded episode I think last week or two weeks ago and then before that I don't know the episode that already pre-recorded So it has been a long time since I've come on camera to say hello to you. So hello How are we doing guys like it's been It's not been forever. I would say but it's definitely been a minute in my head Um, first of all, I am currently in the Canada Surprise surprise. I feel like no one can keep track of where I am in the world But I'm visiting my niece and nephew if you know me you know how much I love I love my family I love my niece and nephew there are three and one and a half right now So they're the most adorable people in the entire world Um, and I want to make sure I'm there while they're growing and so I'm going to visit them I'm gonna see them today pick them up from daycare. I'm really excited I'm also staying with my friend if you guys don't know if you're full my vlog channel You know this journey. I typically do like every quarter essentially like every three months I like to go to my families in Canada and then my best friend also while she's a sister to me My sister also lives in Detroit, Michigan Michigan and Canada have a border in common essentially So I literally can drive 20 minutes across the border go see my family and drive back to stay with my sister So it just is perfect and I love coming out here what I need to just De-stress and the week I have had the past week I have had Oh, yo I really needed to distress but knowing a bad way is just like you know when like You're just moving and you're going that I feel like it's what has been happening So we're gonna catch up for like my vlog channel is the best place to catch up with me now at this point Even Snapchat have not been as consistent But I think it's because when I'm like a mental Fun vibe be moved and I don't want to share on snapchat because then I feel like I worry you guys so much But then when things are okay, I don't I don't then share that things are okay So I'm trying to figure out how to balance that out because I am doing well I've had a few DMs where people are like so if you were so worried about you are you okay? And I'm like yeah guys, I am okay. I think I'm just building and growing and just I'm so consumed with this idea that I need to succeed that I might be forgetting to have fun While I do it and also like I've just lost a lot of friends in the past couple of months guys And I used to think that I was a problem, but as I'm far removed now from the influencer industry I'm like oh I am not the problem people are just a bit crazy now in life and that's some tea that we'll talk about maybe another episode I feel like but this episode is about Coachella Coachella Coachella Coachella but before we get into Coachella I want to shout out Isma to on our terms podcast. She is literally the most incredible human in the entire world she pitched to me I think last year which was a case of you I would really love to have you on my podcast And I was like oh we had a dinner and we're just yapping away and we're just so Like minded. She's a guinea in American She's guinea no Gambian. I keep mixing it up and I feel like a bad friend. It's mostly if you're watching this I'm sorry that I'm not even the same. I hate that I'm doing this right now I'm gonna keep this in the podcast because people make mistakes, but it's my two She was born in America, but she is I think she's guinea and Maybe she's not from guinea. I think she's guinea. I think she's guinea I really could check now but I feel like I don't really want to I think she's I think she's guinea I feel like I think she's guinea anyways. So she's from guinea But she was born in America and she has a Muslim background her parents are really strict And she has a pretty similar background to me So when we're talking at dinner, it just made the sense that we wanted to talk about the same thing And guys, I feel like am I too loud is becoming the like sex loud queer bold podcast and I didn't intentionally make it so but I feel like the society that we live in It just it feels like the episodes that do well are oftentimes episode that I'm mostly me talking about whether sex relationships, queer culture, any of those things And you guys really enjoy those episodes and I feel like it's because where we come from People don't really talk about that. I want to do talk about that. They don't talk about it from An educational or like a direct point of view is oftentimes with like you know fun lingo to make it not as uncomfortable But we get uncomfortable Over here, which I'm excited about. Anyway, so it's mostly reached out to me We had dinner and we decided to do on our terms and AIT all like the first collab episode And that's what went live last week. I hope you guys enjoy it. The part to is coming out next week She usually uploads by weekly so I wanted to just go with her schedule That's what the episode is coming out two weeks after the first episode But on that podcast it was so cool to see another creator work the way she works like it was just so fun for me She is very like intentional about her podcasts about giving value Um, she was also very nervous and I don't know if I should be calling her out Well, let me talk to you. Let me talk a little bit about it because that's my first like time I've actually done a collab episode and I feel like I can feel myself doing more collab episodes in the future I'm just also very particular about the people I want to talk to especially around AITL but with a smart to it felt like We gelled in a way that I really liked and she still sort of I think being a podcaster is very very very very different the being an influencer and or a content creator Um, even though they're both interchangeable. I only say that in terms of like if you're a podcaster I think you're going the lines of like a host or a presenter or you know, you're an interviewer You were giving value based on like information you want to share or commentary you want to give in certain topics Versus like influencers or creators who or like lifestyle creators for example whose lives are content Does that make sense and you can be a lifestyle creator and a podcaster you can be a podcaster and a lifestyle creator Like they can both work at the same time Why I bring that up is because I know it's not too is coming into the industry as a podcaster So she has her podcasts and she interviews a bunch of creators Epic women business people all of that now why I bring this up is because I've I noticed when we in me and her We're talking about the podcast and the creator economy. She was so Flabbergasted About the politics of the influencer economy in a way that I have taken for granted I'm my making sense guys. I feel like if you know what I'm talking about you know and if you don't know Now you know I think about last time I just feel like She experienced the creator economy in a way because me and her have become really cool friends And I love seeing her insight into create the creator economy especially in America in New York City like Meeting other creators mean other influencers and seeing how she sees them versus how I see that. I don't know Let me shut up because I feel like I'm trying to give you guys some tea But I'm not really saying the tea so I might as well just not say anything at all So my apologies guys. I might pack my thoughts in properly and maybe come back and have this conversation But the point is that was a really important conversations. We had the sexism of black Muslim women um We've had really really really really really really really good Feedback. I've had a lot of DMs in the podcast episodes. I've had a lot of people talking about it The comments are really cool And it's just different now. I will say the part two is a bit more around dating relationships From that perspective and I like that it wasn't necessarily just an episode for only black Muslim women But anyone who can listen to it would listen to it But I also think it's really cool that we aren't the typical Muslim women who are talking So I saw a comment where someone was like oh like you guys are definitely not practicing Muslim So it's not fair that you are the ones having this conversation and I like to say this guys I don't feel like this should be something I have to say to prove my My Faith right because I'm not necessarily proving my faith. I will say I was a fully practicing Muslim I mean hijab I read the Quran back and forth for Ramadan for sports like me and my uncle used to race Who can finish the Quran in Ramadan? I used to fast. I used to teach people about the Quran I was very much entrenched in reading the Quran and understanding the Quran and understanding Islam I love Islam as a religion. I don't enjoy organized religion And that is why I have shifted away from calling myself Muslim But the whole point of the episode was to talk about what I was taught as a black Muslim woman Especially as a black woman in general about sex about relationships and even being an African woman and talking about FGM Who may have done until manipulation. I don't know if you guys know this but this is a practice that still happens And I think because I'm Nigerian it's not a common practice in Nigeria So I think maybe I oftentimes feel very far removed from it. It's not common practice in America of course too But it's a pretty common practice in Guinea and Gambia and a lot of other Western African countries Eastern African countries too So it was also important to have that in that conversation and guys Being a woman. I'm telling you we still have so much work to do About bodily autonomy about self about self-love about choice about love about our I just we still have so much work to do and It's 2026 Every time I'm researching the podcast and the things I want to talk about I think it part of me still get so frustrated because there is still so much work to do and Even when I do say certain things the comments I get from men from women. They thems. He's she's her ZZ. It's like And some of those are oftentimes Comments where they're confused about my take or they feel like my take is so jarring and so different I don't even know where I'm going with that guys. I'm just I'm realizing there's so much work to do to On learn a lot of things and we tend to lean on tradition and religion and culture And it's always happened to why is this supposed to change? I was watching an episode We're gonna get into commercial life permits. I was watching a I was scrolling on TikTok Which I have been doing really badly about like doom scrolling But I was watching a TikTok the other day and it was this episode where It's three black men and I can't remember the name, but it's not a sports episode It's like one the black guy is like the smart one of the group and the rest are like I want to say they're dumb They just like typical toxic men and I'd only say toxic men because you can tell their conversations are mostly around toxic masculinity But in that video one of them was talking about how he and his wife hyphenate their name and the two other men were like Why was you hyphenate your name What is that like you're not like you're gonna lose your genetics or your heradistory something something and the black I who I think is a smart one essentially was like well what about her and the men were like well It's what has always been done like here you go with your traditional values And then he submitted comment what he said give me an example of where in a developed country This is the norm because the black guy who was a smart guy was like well in African villages and in African context We oftentimes are in a matricle society So usually the surname of the family is matricle the guy was like don't make up this African stuff I give me something where it's a developed country And when he said that I swear I saw right for a bit because do you understand how much on learning you have to on learn With regards to what you've been taught as a black person in the world because If we're even thinking about genetics and biology the woman is the one that births is child So if she is the one that births child the child why wouldn't she be the one to keep the lineage of said child Why wouldn't it be her surname it just makes logical sense that's why when African culture is celebrate the woman is because she is the beginning of life versus when Western society and Western civilization came around and they decided you know what of course we want a Patriot key we don't want women to be in charge let's make sure the men have the surnames Let's make sure the men are the ones in charge and that's when the shift happened Our societies where the most advanced ones From the get go oh, I sound like one of those whole tabs don't I Oh gosh, I just I can't wait. I don't know if I'm going to be 30 30 30 next year So maybe not 30 but like I don't know if you want to be 35 40 and these conversations We just seem like crazy because it will be the norm for women to just be the status quo And I don't even know if that's possible in a world where women are social and class citizens And I hate it. I hate it. So I just pisses me the fudge off Yo, okay rant over about all of those things. I don't even know where I was going with that Anyway, guys, let's talk about Coachella Coachella Coachella. Okay, first thing I have my iPad here By the way, that's why I'm like looking off to the side um, okay Coachella is it's Coachella season right guys and there's so much to discuss But first let's raise our hands if we don't know what Coachella is do we who knows okay? So if you don't know Coachella is it's a two so weekend festival I'll say it's like a two weekend festival. It happens in America like in Indio, California, which is around Palm Springs, which is around Los Angeles, which is in California California is what I'd like to call it It's a two-week in festival meaning we can one and we can two the same show happens the first we can in the second weekend So that's why if you ever hear about Coachella they talk about we can one and we can two Everybody goes so we can one and then we can two I think it's for the actual music lovers That's that's my hot take this year It's happening in Pro 10 to 12 and April 17 and 19 and this year's lineup was epic I mean you have chiral G just in Bieber the video was on the stage You had disclosure Sabrina Carpenter Katzai and so on oh By the way, I have never listened to unless I feel like I am The minority and I maybe don't know a song. I don't know any Katzai music. I don't know the lore with Katzai I don't know the lore with Sabrina Carpenter is just I'm just maybe I don't know if I don't think it's age right because I know I have a lot of people who love them And I think my issue with me is with music specifically I have specific taste and I'm not a big let me try new music which is bad. I really should try to open up But there's so much drama I know about Katzai and Minon the black girl And I apparently Katzai was an actual show that stop being a show or like finish the show and then they found the group like one direction I see I loved one direction. I just don't know what Katzai is but Katzai was also a headliner Anyways, maybe I will listen to the music after this podcast to see if I like it. Do you guys think I'm gonna like Katzai? Let me know in the comments Okay, so that's what Coachella is and Why am I not at Coachella because if you don't know my name is Sophie aka the oddity I have a TikTok social media Instagram influencer over almost two million followers across the board blah blah blah blah I love you guys so much by the way. Thank you for that. Oh Sidebar guys, do you know we just celebrated 500 Kion TikTok and then I lost 300,000. Okay. That's dramatic. No 300,300 3000 I think it's 3000. Yeah, I don't know math guys Oh shit. Do I need to poop? Oh That's not good. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. I'm just keep it. I'm gonna keep it I will never apologize for going to shit. I'm so sorry guys. I have this thing. Where was I? Okay, we'll talk about that in a bit But I have this thing Where Once I eat I poop and it's not a retoolful bowel syndrome. I don't think it's I excuse me. I don't think it's IBS Because it's not like diarrhea It's more like I just If you ever wonder why I'm so like tiny is because I eat and I shit it out guys like I told you guys Case in point I did I know I start this podcast episode saying oh my god. I just um finish eating some jello fries and look at me and In the matter of like the 20 minutes that we were on this call. It's not a call it's a podcast episode So you get the point I went to shit and that was good I feel so much better. I feel so much lighter So if you ever wondered what is I just shit everything out and I feel very much lighter And like that poop was like a I couldn't wait like I thought I was I needed to fart This is two MIs into my apologies. Let's move on. Okay, so Coachella Why am I so if you okay already know how Coachella so I've been to Coachella twice um and First time I went to Coachella was we Victoria secret pink. I think that was in 2023 Maybe 2023 and It was such a fun experience because I've heard about Coachella. It's the influencer Olympics Which we'll get to in a second and I went with this brand who was like iconic Victoria secret prank Hugenae It was so fun Except it was also not really so Coachella has Different tickets, right? Just gonna give you some tea. So Coachella has general admission. Which is like normal prices VIP Artist guest pass and then I feel like artists to have their own pass separately and then like maybe you're some other Pass that I don't even know about and with Coachella as well. You have like camping options because it's really is in the middle of the desert Like they build Coachella Valley for Coachella for this festival that will only happens once a year and what is it being crazier is you guys? I don't know how many miles Coachella is Well, I'm telling you you couldn't walk 40 minutes to get to a stage like I'm not exaggerating you can literally walk 40 minutes to get to a stage and you're still in the festival That is how big it is. I think maybe a hundred thousand plus people go to Coachella every year I'm not joking. It has to be more than a hundred thousand is huge So my first year going this is me young immigrants I'm living my dreams. I just moved to New York. I got this opportunity for Victoria secret pink. I'm living my best life We get VIP passes now here is something that I've actually not spoken about That I'm going to do some tea on so when I went to Coachella my first time I went with this brand and We had VIP passes now at that point. I did not know what the difference was between VIP and artist But I remember we were all in a compound So usually for brands that either get you a Airbnb or they rent out like a hotel They rent out like large Airbnb's or houses because again Coachella Valley is like I just said maybe just people have like holiday destination homes I think they just rent out around this season So for that brand they rented out the whole hotel So we had this hotel and then we had shuttles that took us to the festival What I realized midway through this entire trip was that some of us had VIP bands and other people had what they call artist guest pass So VIP guests you into the VIP section of the festival which is great You get VIP toilets you get VIP everything but think about it if this is a festival where there is a hundred thousand people I would say like 50,000 people have general admission Then maybe there's like 35,000 VIP or 40,000 and 10,000 artist guest pass that's kind of like the math I would say so VIP you get you know these tickets But then artist guests get like shuttle options they get golf cart access because again I told you guys this festival is large So my first time with this brand going we get a separate shuttle one shuttle is For people with VIP bands and the other shuttles for people with artist guest pass bands And I still didn't know what this festival was I know what the difference was I remember that the shuttle I was supposed to go on that day. I it was full And so I was like oh, I'm just going to the shuttle and he's like no no no girl come here And tie this shuttle instead Sit I sat on what type of tools Because there was no enough seats, but I couldn't go into the artist guest Bus shuttle because I wasn't going to different places Which was unfortunate when I think about it now, but I also remember that like it kind of sort of felt like the minorities We're in the VIP part of the Should think magic so basically It was like me a plus size influencer. I'm a Hispanic creator the two gay people on the trip Like it was mostly like yeah the POCs the yeah the minorities the minorities were in the VIP section And I will say I don't think follow account matter because on the other bus the ones with the artist guest pass They were folks who had lower followers, but because they you know Well, yeah, you know what I'm trying to say anyway, so it was fun still I remember like they snuck me in for one part of the artist section because with Coachella you have General admission and then VIP has like an separate like entrance But where there's space for you to watch the show and then you have like another Extra like closer to the stage area for artists guests. Anyway, so yeah, so that's pretty much my first time doing that I remember like when I left that trip I was like, okay, I had fun at Coachella But man on my biggest one of my biggest takeaways was it was a lot going on If you're not someone who drinks a lot smokes a lot does a lot of drugs or something and you're not into the music It's a lot of walking. It's a lot of content from the brands. It's a lot of it's a lot of work And it's not easy and it is hot as Satan's balls out in the desert. It is so hot It is so dusty and then at night it gets so cold and you're there's no food available It was it felt like I saw this sounds like first world problems, but it really was a law I'm never gonna lie to y'all. It was a bit much But I remember leaving and going. I've experienced it the next time I'm gonna experience it Is we if I have an artist guest pass? So that means I can actually see maybe box stage and everything the next year Your girl was invited to Coachella now with Tar cosmetics. So that's a tar they always take care of me And I got my artist guest pass. This was I think one of my favorite times at Coachella I remember my friend Cache she was a part of the love island. Yeah, I think Cache was in love island I don't know. I was gonna say be brother Um, but it was so fun and this one again We had the shuttle access and then with the artist we were backstage So I remember I saw Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift um, I saw Justin Bieber. I think was there at the same time I went um, I saw Hayley Bieber two around then Jaden Smith was there too like we literally could see the trailers of the artist and I went also with YouTube So I had access to like the YouTube lounge backstage. This was like lit. This was legit again No, it's like hot. It's like to walk into the festival even if you have the artist pass It's still like a 15 minute walk and then you're dusty your hot And then if you're going with a brand who has a lot of deliverables for you You're posting four or five times a day. You're trying to edit. You're trying to eat. You're getting drunk And I'm not complaining, but if you're not someone who's into any of these things then hey, just know this in no piece Now why am I not there this year because I experienced Coachella VIP I experienced Coachella artist pass. I didn't need to experience Coachella again Especially if I wasn't like a big fan of like whoever was headlining now I love Justin Bieber like the next girl like baby baby Thinking I know you can't hey Hey, I love love love love Justin I don't think I was going to want to go through the entire experience of Coachella for Justin I didn't get a few invites for brands But again the take away was oftentimes we'll give you guests I will give you like you know tickets you have to find your accommodation or they give you accommodation They wanted to give you VIP or oh my god. I sound so annoying like an influencer But it just didn't make sense and the ones that were going to pay I just felt like Well guys, I didn't want to go. I feel like you know there's some things that you just know are not for you Like I know I was gonna have a good time, but I won't cost Because I've been there done that. I think maybe the next festival I would want to go to would be like Lula Palozer or stage coach to experience something different But other than that like I really wasn't like that pressed and then I just I just I will say that with regards to being an influencer I enjoy I feel like if I wanted to go before the content not for the artist or the festival itself Just getting the revenue from the content you be posting And then here's the kicker. I can say that but then usually with Coachella Like the black girls oftentimes get the short end of the stick anyways because it's a black creator You're not pushed to the main feed anyways like you could try your best unless you're a pretty established creator Like it doesn't really matter every time I've gone in the past like It just didn't add up to like something that gave me a good ROI ROI so my return on investment. So yeah So yes, that's why I didn't go to Coachella this year. It was fun. I saw my girl Abba was there. Marvela went Okay I can't think of anybody else I know my friends went though. I know they had a good time What else happened at Coachella this year? We should talk about some tea that happened um With like influencer so a lot of people keep talking about like infl- honestly can we talk about this real quick? I am so tired of people complaining about influencers being at events I don't know if you're gonna like what I'm about to say but I'm going to say it anyways Am I too loud if I say that's the whole point of an influencer's job? They're marketing tools like we are marketing tools before if Coachella wanted to do ads They would do ads where they would pay models maybe to be at the festival and then they show that on like billboards Social media everything and that's how they get the marketing across nowadays influencers are the market like we are the ones that need to be at places for things to be seen the only reason We know about Coachella artist paths guest paths drama behind the scenes all this stuff because we're watching the influencers Do it and maybe behind them you see of cosmetics so you see Nick so you see any of all these other things the whole point of influencers I think we forget it because I think we then get used to influencers has people that we forget that they actually businesses too Like there's a creator. I watch Reagan seven seven seven and Heart she always like livestreams Coachella and there's so many facets of Coachella that I didn't even realize We're a thing until her content that to me is why I feel like it's so important to have credits there There's also this thing called the masters till today I did not even know that the masters was a thing and it's like a golf tournament call me I don't know what you would call me like someone who's not in that space I'm really knowing that space but I've never heard of the masters I just found out about the masters because one of my creator friends was getting dragged for the outfit She warts the masters and I went to google the masters and I'm like oh the masters sound like a cool thing Now I know about the masters because of this because an influencer went there. Yes, she was dragged even though she looked amazing But she now I know what the masters is that's marketing and now people could be like well Not every brand needs marketing. Yes, they do We're in the era of social media when the era of AI when the era of everything people need Creators like that's the whole point you can't get upset when You yourself want to be a fucking creator. Sorry. I'm cursing. I don't care Like I don't understand this idea of influencers are ruining things. They destroy everything They're okay. Give you an example. I didn't realize that people car camp that Coachella Did you know that was a thing? I just thought because as a creator I just go with a brand. They bring a shuttle the people who car camp at Coachella And these are normal people who decides to just vlog their experience And then maybe now their lives are changed because next year a brand could take them now They were just went from car camping to freaking going with a brand and experiencing something different But also now I know about car camping and about safari camping I know about a different lens to Coachella that I hadn't before because people are documenting You learn about the world because people are documenting everything they're going through So why we get it in our heads that oh my god I hate that influencers are at the Grammys are at the Golden Globes at Coachella. Where should they be in their homes? Is there a job? It's our jobs. It's literally our jobs to be at these places to show you guys the world These places usually did not even have acts that I think people oftentimes forget to oh, let's talk about this because we're gonna talk about some drama around Coachella I think one of the first things is brand flakes brand flakes and Starbucks drama Okay, I have a hot to take. Am I too loud if I say a lot of you enjoy performative activism A lot of you enjoy performative activism and I honestly feel like this is why the democratic party oftentimes loses and this is why the left loses because of this idea of du-goodism. Let me just coin that du-goodism right where you want someone so perfect that you forget sometimes the reality of situations now I don't know brand flakes the story What I do know is let me explain it this way. Okay Starbucks reached out to me through an agency to work with them I remember calling up a friend and being like oh my god I don't I only drink Starbucks with matcha, but I really want to work. I have this weird thing where I want to partner with brands that have Green logos because my favorite color is green I think that'll be cool for like a collage something at the end of the year. I don't know content idea So when they reached out I was like oh my god one of the green brands that I want to work with But then I was like okay, um, I need to see the background on Starbucks because I've heard They're like, you know, they support Israel. They support the genocide. They do all these things And I did my research and then they were like they did they did not speak and there's some people who are boycotted Now while I was doing my research on Starbucks, I realized google Was also part of it. I realized apple was also a part of it. I realized amazon was also part of it I realized target. I realized every single brand Honestly, besides Ben and Jerry's every single brand Even Sephora every single brand out there in some capacity has some connection to Something that is either been boycotted has some red flags all of that now I am not saying because of that we need to willingly support these brands or anything What I am saying is if you have creators like brand who are vocal about Voting and voting rights and women's rights and all these things and he gets the bag as someone who's also not a rich creator I really think you guys are really interested in performance of activism because I know People who even though they're saying oh my god, I'm not gonna drink Starbucks still go shop at Starbucks So put their shades on some of them put their shades on they just go do it or target on these places and we forget The not all influencers are rich. We forget that not all influencers have the luxury Of boycotted and you know what's crazy? I didn't realize this until recently When I saw a lot of discourse on influencers being in serum places um There's a creator who was going to revolve fest and revolve like a festival that happens alongside Coachella around the same time Um just because Coachella is there a lot of influencers that they to give out goodies and a lot before we're like Oh my god, this is so selfish. This is crazy Um, why is revolve giving out all these products all these rich influencers itself and I was looking at them like I think people forget that some influencers don't make money like Not ever influencers rich I don't know if this is a hot take or not. Not every influencer is rich Not every influencer is rich. There's some people who are just starting out whose first invite ever to even be around Coachella Is revolve fest and then being able to get their hands on some of these brands will help them make content for them to get to where they want to be um We're so used to seeing the Alex Earl's of the world who have had money come up and we're like well every influencers like that No, a lot of POC creators are not um born with a silver spoon a lot of even white creators on a set not born with a silver spoon We've seen them grow. We've heard Moni McMichael talk about her upbringing and where she is now It's crazy to me that she wouldn't be in a place where she should get free products and people are like oh, that's so selfish Now she has money. What if not she doesn't what if she's feeding her entire family and we all are because now you can also pick up your camera And also start recording content. I Maybe we're forgetting the humanity and in a lot of things now Maybe we're forgetting what it means to be human to be kind to one another to understand privilege We also understand that opportunity exists for people and they're grabbing it because for me if I see a creator who started from nothing is finally at something I still don't understand why I would feel upset at them for winning. I just don't understand that take anyways So with brand um, he was gained drag because he worked with Starbucks and before talking about how him Victoria Paris and other creators were working with Starbucks and Starbucks is terrible And I was like and then he responded with a video where he said y'all know I'm gonna climb those said I was boy quadding stop excuse me Starbucks But oh blah they offered me a lot of money. I took it and I'm looking. I'm like honestly when Starbucks reached out I was really scared but I was like I'm not gonna lie to you guys I was gonna work for them. I just know in my top of oh, I don't have humanity. What if You know what I just think about it this way. Okay, if they don't give me the money They're giving someone that money the money's there I don't know if this is a bad way to think but the money's there and for someone who needs the money It feels hell-up performative for me to not take that money because it's A bad look for people who actually are not doing anything about it because what if I did take that brand deal And then if they offered me 50k I gave a sent 25k to help organizations or I can add that to my voice And then keep talking about the things that matter to me because I think people also forget that can also happen It's weird that we've become very myopic in our thinking of support and help and activism in a way that's very interesting But yeah, that was interesting. I am Justin Bieber also performed at Coachella this year and a lot of people are talking about Justin's performance as boring as boring Honestly because I was awake for his performance and when I opened it I was like oh, this is chill And I started seeing the live because I was on YouTube watching it so the live comments people saying we want more We want your old songs that are done. It really is not easy to be an artist. Is it? It is not easy being an artist because people can be so selfish and so self-centered and so wicked It's just not easy being an artist in this climate because imagine a young man Justin was so young when he started Music and I've never thought of Justin Bieber unless I'm mistaken as like a really bright Loud usher style creator like I've never thought of him that way in fact every performance I have ever seen of Justin Bieber has been intimate like he's often by himself on stage He's not dancing around moving around unless I'm just seeing the wrong things. I've never actually seen him Be this loud bold Beyonce-esque performer another example of that would be like an Adele I don't see I don't see Adele as a person who maybe she would have fireworks Maybe she would have an outfit changer too, but for the most part It's usually Adele's voice that carries and for Coachella too It really made sense that it will be Justin's voice that would carry and also Artistic choices a thing and it doesn't really matter how you think of someone's ability to perform when they're showing you What's their heart truly wants like we've heard about the issues he's had with his masters in his music We've heard about how he just really wants to connect back to his voice and his art and for people to just not understand that I'm being like we can also say that the performance was boring. No, he was talented as fudge and plus apparently He couldn't even play his actual songs because his other label was on there or something like that So the only way for me to like get it would like get through that window was to play it on video So anyways, I thought his performance was a plus. I thought it was fantastic I really really enjoyed watching Justin Bieber actually. I don't think I would have wanted to be there in person I'm not gonna let you again. I'm telling you guys like unless you're like a Bieber fan On your a karaoke fan or Sabrina Carpenter like it makes I just I can't I couldn't do it on that note We're talking about performance the video here's a thing. I'm a Nigerian girl is Divido. I knew is Divido I know do you guys remember that I'm like very uncomfortable video interview where this girl was like oh my god Like isn't it annoying she's on to Davido. She's like isn't it annoying when we say your name wrong And they always like Davido and he was like you know is Davido. I was like hey good girl I would you even why would you I would you uh it was so embarrassing but the video Davido Davido is Davido David oh Performer Coachella and I still love comments of people being like oh he wasn't really a headline now He wasn't about blah like it was on a small stage it was on a bit Coachella has about four five stages the goby stage Sahara stage Okay, I don't know the rest goby Sahara main stage and like I think they're two more than they're on the ground compartments To perform at any stage at a festival as big as Coachella is huge Especially for an Afrobeats artist to see the crowd they're celebrating him Oh People just go oh hey good You just you just sit behind your keyboard and yep And type that's what people do They just sit behind a keyboard and type and they have still I think it's fun now like This idea of critique in a way that is Marvela posted on a Snapchat today. Marvela is a creator. What absolutely adore What she talked about like people just being so excited to critique people now Like they the fastest way to get their opinion across is to say something negative And we oftentimes forget that negativity isn't the right way. It's not the right path. It's not the right move It's so frustrating and irritating it. I'm Go put in your group chat record a video and delete it If you want to talk so negatively about someone do that there like I am so over Social media being the cesspool of negativity in a way that is so disappointing and Now that I realize it. I really I just enjoy when social media is like a light like and it just shows the real core of humanity I guess I'm calling people out like it shows the core of humanity and how Ryan we become when every time we see something We immediately want to think about the negative because that gets our fingers happy Oh, let me see what we're saying about Justin Bieber. Let's see what the things are saying about influencers You had debtsy got wicked You're mean you're mean that you're not nice. You're not nice. Where's niceness anymore? Fake it till you fucking make it like what the heck we just I bring back nice bring But honestly bring back fake nice. I don't even care at this point. Let me know you're pretending in line to me At least let me have the false sense of love and affection from you because I am over people just being mean for no Frickin reason. It's it's absurd. Okay. Anyways, the video performed it was really great He performed acupenda see go bay. He just it was so fun to see an afterpiece artist again on that stage I feel like the last performance I saw was Brenna boy I will say Brenna boy was on the main stage at Coachella when he performed but that crowd was so small Because main stage was really big and I think there was another artist that was there because Coachella is still like maybe 80% white We forget that Coachella is an American festival like yo black people are only 12% of this country Maybe even 12% at this point because We're mixing all of us are mixing up So it makes no sense for you to want him to be on the main stage. Yes, if fall acupenda they're all big music But let him go to South Africa see if he's on the biggest stage there is like we need some investment our own things don't we? I don't even know where we would start from. I wish we had like I know we had afro chella But even then like it became afro feature But even then our artists don't respect our things more Let me now get into that conversation because we'll be here all day. Okay, so that's that and then It's a little bit about activations like revolve fast Campoosh who doesn't know any of these things these are like events around Coachella that you can go to because all the influences are there And a lot of people are saying like oh this is so selfish because oh It feels like a crazy thing to be sitting here talking about campoosh and road and revolve fast and Coachella When the world is burning at the same time. I just like had that thought like I just as I was sitting here I was just like it seems so privileged. It seems so privileged. I can't do anything about to accept Do my best to be a part of some good in the world But it just it was more of a reflection for me that this feels very privileged Um for the same time your existence is a form of resistance The shit I'm going through I can't even begin to tell you and then people are going through very very Just every every human around the world. I think except for Elon Musk That's going through some shit um yeah all random one on random because I've been my notes, but allandria and nick First of all, I'm a nickel andria stan. I did not realize how toxic the love island fandom has become I told you guys about being friends with cachet um good friend of mine And I did not I well, I really don't watch love island. Maybe you're not going to listen to me because of that, but I do watch. I'm gonna have it tick-tock love island watch I meaning I see the recap zone tick-tock. It's the same thing I get the gist of it and I remember my first every time watching love island closely was on tick-tock for Serena's season chef's kiss by the way um The fandom now is At a level of absurdity that I have never seen before If you are on twitter x Guys grown women grown men grown people grown anyone the things they say about these people These are human beings for christ sake. What are we talking about? So olandria was at coachella this weekend Looks fantastic. She killed it like she launched like a barbie campaign Nick was there to first of all talking about how they must have broken up because they're not together But now after I saw them on day three I was like it makes sense that they're not going to constantly be together because Every time they're together they make it about them know about their individual work ethics Which I think is really smart um, but then I saw a lot of conversations because Shelley and a few other love islanders were at the tart mansion Is what I like to call it because tart always invites people on tart invited reality stars this year and The comparison of this person versus that person and this person versus that person You know what I wish most in the world is if Everyone like was able to show their ass And have it recorded and what I mean by that is We I feel like full strip india makes it in a way where people think They're good when they're not I can't imagine a world where Me falling in love with someone on a reality show means I will get hate for the rest of my fucking life And the things you guys say about these people. I don't I don't get it Mind you together. No kidding with you. Shelly didn't kill anybody Um, who else Clark didn't kill anyone Taylor didn't kill anyone And my juice always the women who are going to like I'm scared for people who go into these seasons because of this reality She as I can do reality TV I can do like dating reality shows I feel like that brings out a different side to people honestly any reality TV show because the more you give people access to your life in that way They're ability to give stupid opinions about you is just doubled And power social relationships are on a different level than they've ever been before I don't know how to explain it guys. Yo, it's scary I need you guys to understand that you do not know any of these people. We don't know each other You're watching me right now and honestly, I feel like I give you guys a pretty good access into my life Like I say things as it is I am pretty open to my vlog channel Oh, I let me tell you this team So I was just oh we gotta talk about your dumb blood and bone. I was just in LA I promise we'll get by to Landry and Nick maybe But I was just in LA because I got invited to see the movie children of blood and bone Um, the children of blood and bone is a Series that is going to be coming out January 27th. It was written by tome admi an Nigerian American author Um, and then Gina is a director for this and she's so incredible I was invited to see a private screening of the movie in Los Angeles um last week You are not ready for how good this movie is about to be. I am telling you it is Wakanda woman king Sinner's level great in terms of the VFX the storytelling the fun the difference in the story being told I like to say it's like a black hogwards like a black Harry Potter-esque vibe And there is already so much drama around the movie with Nigerians talking about how you know the wordings are right or With the pronunciations or the actors not being Nigerian and the actors being um Non-N Nigerian and stuff. Let me tell you this. It is a fantasy for a fucking reason. It's a fantasy. It's not real In fact, if she wanted to speak fake hero by she could because she's making shit up Yes, there's some words that have background meanings and there's some words that but the whole point of a fantasy is a fantasy It's the same way. Oh, let's talk about ADHD Harry Potter. I'm serious is coming out random again two guys So Harry Potter is launching a series. I think on HBO and they're going to be a new sets of Harry Potter kids And so many people were talking about how Severus Snape is a black man and tells a different story Harry Potter is not real. In fact, if Harry Potter wants to become Harry Potress Harry it's Potter. It doesn't matter because it's not real You can take a story and change the characters because the people that are watching it now are not the people who watch the first one You can protect your Harry Potter It is okay for your Harry Potter to be the Daniel Radcliffe that we know and for 2026 Harry Potter to be Harry Potter That's fine because it's a fantasy. It's not rooted in reality That's why it's okay that little mermaid was a white person 2050 years ago and now it's highly Bailey. It's okay It's fantasy. It is not rooted in reality and if it is you can always change reality I'm sorry Am I ever gotten a bit upset right there because I hate when I see this discourse of oh it changes the story Let it change the story let it change the story now you have another story in fact now you have a better story in most cases It's okay. That's okay to happen. Why are we so stuck on the past? That's why you guys are so rooted in change People need to fucking masturbate more maybe that's what it is people are uptight I don't know something needs to give Anyways, the Harry Potter thing I feel like when I saw the discourse I just did not engage with it because it makes no sense to me Harry Potter can be whoever they can you can cast whoever Also a mutual of mine on tiktok talked about how With Harry Potter not supporting Harry Potter because jigger rolling is a transphobic human being and I have a hot take slash a question and I would love to hear your thoughts on it I clip this on tiktok or instagram and I'm talking directly to you guys as well What do we do about jk rolling without affecting other people what I mean by that is I know people talk about not supporting Harry Potter because of jk rolling But because of one person's views people go hungry people lose their jobs because I know the series is coming out And people are talking about how we need to boycott the series because jk rolling is terrible but I'm like These are young kids who are getting the first stars actors. Is it their fault? They were casted in the story of with this transphobic is it The production crew that worked under the camera crew. I'm the director's the producers Maybe they're all good people and this story is just something that's gonna make people a lot of money. How do we control Having people I guess for their views Um Because I I don't understand if that's I don't know if that's the best route to take boycotting Something like this because first of all it never works and also There's just too much damage around it for it to make any sense to me anyways. I think it's different if like Say um, I don't know. I really don't know. I don't know what the difference would be But I'm really curious about it because I have to like I want to support the cast the crew if you work a part of it It's the same way. We're like people talk about Sam Levinson with Emmy for me and being a weirdo But the people who are still actively working on the movie whose livelihoods dependent it So do they lose their jobs because of one person's problems? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know um Anyways, so Children of buttonbone is so good. It reminds me of black hogwarts essentially, but on its own I got to see the preview and some behind the scenes of the set. It was filmed in Cape Town. It just looked So flipping good. I'm so excited. I read the books all three of them hated book three. Love you told me But book three pisses me off till today But I hear some insider scoops. They're gonna probably have four movies coming out. Hopefully it's it goes well The arts the viola Davis of it all interest Elba damson Idris and people are kind of in name because I don't want to spoil it Maybe they already told them the cast ira start temps. Tems was singing in it. Tems is singing in it like I'm telling you. I saw a scene with temples like I think the black diaspora is going to be so proud of the movie. I think the black diaspora is going to be so excited for the movie I think the black diaspora if we all have sense Going support the movie because Even if your quams is the accents or your quams is the story not being accurate the quams just go and watch it Because we need more stories nobody says dr. Strange is not real Nobody says Iron Man is not real nobody says Captain Marvel is not real And there's some civilization that they got that moana fucking moana like we complain too much We'll complain too much Anyway, so that's what I was doing a link and then um what was I talking about nickel andria. I don't even know how we got there My ADHD is so bad isn't it we I got this shouldn't vulnerable because at this preview Some girl comes up to me. I don't know who she is. I feel like she might be an important person So I hopefully she doesn't watch this but some girl comes up to me and she's like oh my god. Sophie. You're going through it. Hey Who's going through it? And she said it in a way that If it didn't fill me with confidence or care it didn't make me feel good that she knew I was going through it And I realized oh, why does she think I'm going through it? I'm suffering and she was like oh, you know I was just watching your episode or your vlog channel the other day and I was just like oh this girl is going through it She's so sad Who I think this is what we're talking about don't let your enemies know what's going on with you Because my enemy knows And I was like oh no like I'm good. She was like yeah, I see you all here doing your thing now. Look. I'm praying for you Is it that serious? You're praying for me Thank you, but I don't know if I want your prayer It was the most uncomfortable thing I'd ever felt because I generally didn't know how to respond to that Like thank you for praying for me, but also I don't like how you're telling me this because it feels like Your hat. I don't know if she was happy that I was going through it And I realized that I shared what I was going through so I should invite conversations like that But I didn't like you know what she didn't come and say I want to help you. I wanted she just was like oh And not all this made me feel very seen so now I'm like maybe I should just start moving in silence guys Because I don't know I don't like I didn't like that feeling of like people knowing what I was going through Because I know some of my people who are going through the same shit as me But y'all think they're people are living their best life And I'm like maybe I need to get on their level because y'all know too much Oh, yeah, that's not so LA Anyways, that was where the children blown a bone Division came from and then back to Nikola Andrea Anyways, they were at um Coachella. She killed her with all the activations. Hopefully one day I'm working with Barbie I also want to be swimsuits rookie of the year guys. I'm praying. It's going to happen soon. Let me see What else do I have? Okay random, but This is what I'm going to talk about the same. Do you guys know Alex Earl and Alex Cooper? If you don't know Alex Earl is a tiktoker creator Honestly, one thing I love about Alex is I didn't think she's been She's been creating for about seven years now in hustling. I don't think that girl is taking a day off Whenever I talk about creators working hard Alex Earl is on the creators that I feel like Is constantly working. She does not take any breaks I want that discipline, but then I also talk about it from the sense of like to be a white woman Maybe her least maybe the oh well her mom does have cancer. I shouldn't be saying this Okay, am I too loud because I was about to say like she doesn't have problems with like my mom has cancer I think like they've gone through chemotherapy, but they have money and she grew up from a affluent family I did cheat on her mom And it was a public thing, but you know like Besides the cancer thing, I think maybe not good. This is so bad, isn't it? I might not clip this part besides all of that like, you know, she's like in her life That won't say her life is chill because it's not physically trauma, but you know, it's no stroke. It's no stuff like People like us We almost got deported What's the body squad? There's the details There's levels to this suffering and trauma, bro um We didn't have fathers, bro. We did it anyways. The point I'm trying to make is she's a hard worker She's done dancing with the stars. She posts everything on TikTok. She's always editing. She's always parting She has a fun life and Alex Cooper is one of my favorite podcasters I always feel some type of way fun fact about the fact that people oftentimes seem to Enjoy being in their own bucket. Let me explain I don't know what this says about me Except maybe I'm a people pleaser, but I thoroughly enjoy Seeing outside of my bucket and what I mean by that is My identity is oftentimes I'm a black African and I'm hearing queer Muslim woman And they're probably other buckets, but like that's who I am I Enjoy people like Emma Chamberlain David Portinoid David Portinoid's crazy Dave Portinoid Alex Cooper um Trevor Noah The do the do the do the exact justice um I don't know if it's last image is I'm not the Zach who's a youtuber Kevin Lang I watch a diverse group of creators because I think you learn more about the world from people who aren't like you I'm on a support what they do. I'm on a support how they vote per analysis Trump supporter But I would listen and I think the shifts in society is we've stopped engaging in conversation people who Think differently than us now. It is so valid to do that because sometimes in the ways they think very differently from us Can also be very damaging so like if you voted for Trump that man is leading the war now in Iraq killing people He's leading the war in genocide in Palestine like It is valid that you just can't respect this people and can't have conversation But I'm also of the opinion that close conversations mean no forward movement. So If I never knew anything that happened in the Alex or all Alex Cooper world I wouldn't know that podcasting is a billion dollar industry. I wouldn't know that there's more to the world than My silo as a black creator. She's not doing what I'm trying to say like there's so much more like as a creator now I see a lot of creators especially black creators always talk about burnout because Our trauma our existence is so real. It's exhausting But then I see creators in the actual Alex or who don't really have a lot of problems Besides a few things. I talked about and I'm like if they can do it I can do it to an even better and sometimes it's hard to explain that to people But that's kind of how I move like if you would talk like I Guys one of the things about me that I've been struggling with is I supposed to events where um I would want to do so much content collaborative creators especially black creators And they would oftentimes tell me oh Sophie's here. So um Oh, you're always working. Oh, Sophie wants a video and those videos always it so well because it's just show community And we didn't have that but it's because in our bucket oftentimes collaboration is a foreign concept And I'll give you an example if you look at Coachella content now. This is such a broad example I don't know facts here, but if you look at Coachella content from the ones I consumed a lot of the black creators black streamers All collaborating with each other They might not even like each other, but they're gonna collaborate you're gonna see them do videos together do content together Do several things and then when you see black creators There really isn't anything like yeah, they might take selfies here and there or they might take some video together But most of the time they probably take the video with their plus one who came with them with with the creator that came with them you don't like You don't see collaboration as well as you see from the white creators and that is something in our community that we struggle with I know like if I was a coachella. Oh my god. Let's all do contact. I fucking neural rose indeed. My villa. Abba just in camera. Oh my chain Blake newbie o'lander like Imagine there was a video where you saw all these creators doing transitions together doing all these things like the power of those videos would have But we don't have that and I don't know why I have a few Reasons why I think it could be, but you know, it's neither here or there Anyways, the point is collaboration over anything Alex Earl and Alex Cooper are fighting and Alex Earl joined on well network with Alex Cooper's network guys I don't know if you know these people, but this is some white girl drama that I really love Alex Cooper has the podcast Called her daddy and um, she's an OG. She's part of barstools Also random. I want to be a part of barstools and I say that because I don't think there are any black girls On barstools, but I also wonder what kind of emotional damage that will cost me But also be a different audience. I don't know. I have very weird interests. That's what I'm the oddity for crying out loud Anyways, Alex Cooper has called her daddy and she created the on well network signed Alex Earl Then they at some point just did like stopped working together and Alex Earl has been throwing shade at Alex Cooper Come to find out Alex Cooper decides the supposed to video which she never does and she's like Alex Earl at me next time tell me exactly where your problem is with me And then Alex Earl is like okay, I'm on it people are saying it's people are saying it's PR other people are saying like Alex or is gonna do a get ready with me talking about her drama. I just think it's too powerful women um fighting And they would have never worked out because Alex or I think is a Powerhouse in herself and it's really hard to have two powerhouses working together That's something I've learned about even the influencer industry It's really hard to have two like alpha females alpha creators Collaborating with each other. It's just weird because there's always gonna be a power imbalance Anyways, like yeah, I think Alex Cooper is big, but I also think Alex Earl is big So I didn't think that was gonna end up working on the long run. So that's some drama I'm just I've been watching it when I take talk. I need to stop scrolling. Okay, let me see what else um I followed that's it from I don't even know I just wanted to chat with you guys today and I went all over the place Hopefully like you guys had fun in today's episode because next week is gonna be the part two with me and it's not two So they're gonna enjoy some light conversation after the really deep one. We had about fgm last week But um, I'm just gonna try to be doing the podcast wherever I can Um, I think I'm enjoying the solo episodes because I feel like I'm still getting Into the zone of doing my own thing and having my own opinions and just enjoying a my tool as it is And I feel like once again to a space where I have a studio I think I'm gonna start getting guests on the podcast um I try to do the thing where I was gonna do zoom with guests. I'm not sure if it's gonna be possible right now guys I'm still a solo machine I'm still the one filming this producing this editing this writing this everything. So bear with me Um, and if you're a part of the pod fam. I love you guys so much um, we've been killing it so far like it's slow and steady over here, but I feel like we're on the right path. I'm also meeting with Spotify this week, which I'm really excited for I don't know where that would go, but you know your girl has hopes and dreams so we'll see we'll see we'll see we'll see Okay, I gotta go actually see my niece enough you know, I love you guys so much I'm recording this in Tuesday and I'm posting this tomorrow Wednesday So this edit was gonna be really quick and hopefully you guys enjoy this episode and I hopefully I didn't forget anything I'm looking at my iPad. I think that's all oh Oh my god, I almost choked on something what the heck was that sound I love you guys so much. I'll see you in the next podcast episode and don't forget to like comment and subscribe Give us a five star wherever you listen to the podcast. Let me know where you're listening from as well And if you ever want to send me anything, I'll let you know where you send not to Oh, okay. I love you guys. Bye for now