THE BROWN SOCIAL MEDIA SPACE
I feel like sometimes I'm caught in the middle of this social media realm. My agencies and my clients couldn't care less if I don't post because there has not yet been a modeling agreement where you're like, okay, you are shooting a brand campaign. It’s not like, “You're going to be on set for 12 hours, but also, we expect you to do a post and three stories.” That's just not how our job is structured and how our payment is structured in any way. When you are on set as a model, you have no expectations to post that because they don't care about your following. In fact, they prefer that you don't post any of that because you're now giving out their secrets of what their setup might look like or anything like that. So, I feel very conflicted. A lot of times, as a model, you are not to have your phone out on set. I don't have my phone out even here. Despite this being a little bit more of an intimate setting - so I do feel kind of caught in the middle. I am loving that so many of my content creator friends have brought so much positive light to the South Asian space. In that part, you can see I can't fight the smile because that makes me really excited and really happy. What I hate is when people are like, oh, ‘why is she posting? She thinks she's all that.’ I think we can be less judgy. We definitely have a lot of that.
THE INDIAN STANDARD | 99
