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An Interview with Vaping Vlogger
VM: What does a typical day-in-the-life of Tia look like?
By Matt Rowland
VM: Sounds like a lot of work. Do you work 9-5? 7-days a week?
TV: A typical day is really just a normal day like anyone else. I have errands to run, bills to pay, and animals to take care of. But instead of going to the office, I work at home on the Internet. I answer a lot of emails, respond to lots of YouTube and social media comments, and spend lots of time on Twitter. A couple of times a week, I might spend the entire day filming videos followed by a day or so of editing.
Tia Vapes
It takes a certain something to be a successful vlogger, an almost indefinable quality that makes viewers stand up and take notice. Whatever this quality is, TiaVapes has it in spades. In just a little over three years, her YouTube channel has generated over 10 million hits and almost 100,000 subscribers. She’s the bubbly blonde with a non-nonsense attitude that really knows her stuff. VM: So, Tia? You’re all over the web! Your YouTube channel is a big hit. And you are always posting on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. What’s it like to be one of the most popular vaping vloggers on YouTube? TV: Being a vlogger is really fun and exciting, and sometimes it’s a little overwhelming! There’s a lot of pressure to stay relevant. In the vaping world, sometimes a new, hot product comes out, and within a month, it’s completely obsolete. And if you review it too late, then your social media fills up with a lot of haters posting nasty comments.
TV: I don’t work 9-5. And while I don’t always film a video every day, I guess you could say that I work 7-days a week because my business depends on social media. And that’s pretty much an everyday thing. For the YouTube Channel, I try to post six or seven videos per week, and there’s more time involved behind the scenes than what you see on film. Experimenting with the different vendors’ products, setting up the products for the video shoot, and editing the videos afterwards takes more time than you might think. So, I really never have a “day off” because there’s always a Twitter message, a YouTube comment, and an email to answer. But when you love what you do, it’s never really “work,” is it?
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