NO. 21 — LOVE & OTHER DRUGS
was reaching people all over the world, I truly fell in love with making videos. Six years is a long time, and you’ve obviously grown and changed since first starting your channel. Can you tell us a little bit about how you and your channel have evolved over the years? I truly have changed so incredibly much! The coolest part about when I started Youtube is that it was right at the start of high school, and I made videos throughout all that: graduating high school, moving across the country to LA and starting college at FIDM, graduating college, and now living on my own. I’m 22 now and I have all those years to look back on and reflect on my life. It’s awesome to see what I was like in say, 10th grade, or to go back and see my old rooms in various apartments. But I think the best part is vlogging my traveling experiences which I do on my channel LivinLikeLindsey - being able to instantly go back and see those moments I experienced in so many different, awesome places. The biggest way I’ve evolved is by exploring and trying new things, meeting different people, and by leaving my little bubble of my small town in Georgia where I lived until I was 18. I began to know myself and now looking back I can see how independent I have become. What are some of your favorite kinds of videos to make? Vlogs are my favorite to film because they’re real and raw. I also love filming hauls or a video where I’m discussing music and festivals because that’s a huge passion in my life. Where do you find inspiration for your videos? I try to think of what my typical viewer would be able to relate to or have an interest in. Most of my audience is 18-25 year old women, so I want to appeal to them while keeping true to obviously what I want to film and talk about. :)
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As a YouTuber, you have an extremely large platform to speak to an audience. What types of messages or ideas do you hope to evoke to your viewers? What do you hope they will take away from your videos? I hope my viewers, who feel like friends to me because so many of them have been watching me for years now, can smile or laugh while watching one of my videos. I hope they watch and just know that I’m a normal twenty-something year old who is trying to figure out life just like them. I don’t ever want my videos to feel like a commercial, or something fake and not relatable. I like watching Youtubers who are real and undeniably themselves. So I like being weird and immature sometimes in my vlogs, because that’s who I am! I’m silly as fuck. I like to also empower my viewers to be their happiest selves - I feel like every day I’m getting happier and it’s a journey - there will always be ups and downs in life, but I hope my videos can bring a little joy into someone’s day. What is one of the biggest challenges of being a YouTuber? Probably worrying about if what I’m going to post is going to offend someone or make someone upset or unhappy. I always say “please don’t watch my videos if they don’t make you happy.” I don’t understand watching someone that you dislike. Why would you give them your time and attention? I’m a people pleaser so it’s hard for me to take criticism.