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BIG ON Stan culture used to be and mean something. Listennnn back then you were a fan, an investigator, coordinator and a shit starter. And when you were DEEEP you even know the names of the admin of the big fan pages. As an OG Belieber I can, till this day, recite the entire Jelena relationship to the tea. The timeline of the gossip was too good and you definitely had to be there… I miss my peoples fr

Call me T

Mentioning a life harrowing event like it’s nothing, hating on tiktok (deserved), abrupt cut off… this is peak kenya!!

Viet Dau

Ooo one topic could be ranking fav Beyoncé live performances!!

Autumn

I’ve been off Twitter for 2yrs but it took about a year to get off. I got back on it this on August and I don’t make it past 30mins. It helps that it’s not the same anymore and I’m just not the person I used to be when I was on Twitter. Also helps that I have a community that I’ve been working on for two years. I don’t miss the app I miss the connections and the fun. But it seems like all of social media isn’t fun just steeped in negativity

Ixa

I vote for this too

Ixa

I figured! I’m tempted go back on there bc I love trash talking Taylor swift but I’m trying to cut twitter too😩😩

Shady Tyrell

Kenya's videos/musings lately have been so timely with where I am in my life. I just turned 25 and I'm like woah, not to get all frontal lobey but when I look back on my twenties what will I see? Me in the house scrolling on twitter with a 5 hour screen time and unread books on my shelf? 😭 I've been deciding to be more intentional with how I use my time and everything she's been talking about has been resonating so much with me: being on twitter less, reading more books (everytime Kenya talks about books I feel like I'm being grabbed by the neck cause I know I should read more 😭), reading people's substacks, investing in fun hobbies, reading more articles, taking the time to find information instead of endlessly scrolling!

T.H.

The final battle between beyhive and swifties is taking place on twitter rn 😭

Kasey Kucera

Not you brushing past getting shot at omg 😭 I vote for a vlogmas mini storytime about that! Another video could be the Beyonce's worst songs video you mentioned.

T.H.

Topics: Taylor Swift and her treatment of Olivia Rodrigo Ranking the Real Housewives Franchises What’s on your Christmas list What makeup trends and or products are worth the hype lately Very excited for Vlogmas

Jordan

1. Billboard greatest popstar list breakdown (bey praise 🙏🏾) 2. Ranking the current pop and r&b girls on a tier list (maybe a live stream this day) 3. Award season predictions

𝐑꩜𝐄

When you said I’ve been in chat rooms no Doja Cat 💀💀💀

James

Please do a Sims 4 video I eattttt those up and I don’t even play that damn game

James

Ooo a discussion topic is Billboards recent list of greatest pop stars of the 21st century!

David

i hope you do a video on this AI epidemic cause it’s really getting out of hand 😭 literacy and IP (intellectual property) is going to be a thing of the past at this rate. you mention it but i want a full rant 🙂‍↕️

a.sierra

Elon musk isn’t even an American…so embarrassing. Like I have second hand embarrassment

Manna Steel

ouu updated clients list! who’s fallen further off, who’s gaining in the ranks, etc.

risa kim

content ideas: 1. sims 4 content (example; walking us through your play style) 2. favorite and least favorite albums of the year 3. predictions for 2025 4. favorite and least favorite movies of the year 5. oscar predictions

jewel

Would you join bluesky? I like it for what it is

Ofu

Beyonce’s Netflix performance

Grace

Beyonce’s Netflix prefro

Grace

Beyoncé bey g 1 on billboard

Grace

Idk if you talked about it already but the whole Taylor swift and Tyler the creator beef?

Leah L

+1 for 2025 predictions

beeg

Do you have any predictions for what kind of content will do well next year? Do you have any 2025 predictions for the content/influencer space overall?

Dara Ikejiani

i remember you being a huge fan of outer banks. are you caught up with the drama between the cast mates? would love to hear your thoughts on the mess. there's probably a YouTube video that explains it all

Nini

How you just gonna talk about you almost dying and gloss over that 😂😂?!?! Vlogmas Day 1: Why I got shot at lol

Bree Kells

Also we never really got your takes on Traitors Season 2. You could talk about that and Season 3.

Chris

not no dojacat 😭😭😭

marcelina

I love your makeup videos, sims 4 videos, I would love for you to revisit some of your viral videos from YouTube and see if you still agree with yourself, I would like to see a video of your favorite content creators/influencers. Just some light fun topics, we need some unseriousness in our lives lol.

Britney Herring

I think 2 vlogmas’ ago she was gonna do the story about her being homeless in college…….and did we ever get it

diego

like kenya said you want to call them stupid to let them know they stupid but they won’t believe that they are in-fact stupid so it’s a waste of breath to tell them they are stupid

diego

But twitter is a shithole. Bluesky is alright; kind of lame but that means I spend less time on my phone. Reddit can either be neutral (depends on what you’re looking at) or worse than twitter.

diego

Kenya you have like mastered the craft of like ranting + being hilarious + being informative + expressing your concerns. Don’t know if that makes sense but I can listen to you talk all day about anything 😭😭

diego

Erm, shot at, hello?? Good Lorrdd I'm glad you're okay and safe!!

ChrisyA (HarmonyDiaires)

Yeah Twitter is a cesspoll and i fear there's no recovering it. Someone made a good point about how It's so funny all the right-wing trolls are now complaining of the migration to bluesky, calling it an 'echo chamber' when like - yes? the point of social media is to *socialise* with people that you *like*, be in spaces that you *enjoy*, it's not to constantly be at war, fighting for your life, debating yours or other's human rights with people who just want to farm engagement to line their own pockets and/or people who do it for the love of the bigotry. Word to Azealia Banks (forgive me) but I don't want to share this with y'all. They're so mad that we just refuse to be in community with them so they can continue to hurl their abuse. Musk will pay for all this someday, but for now, me too I'm (close to) done.

ChrisyA (HarmonyDiaires)

You were gonna do Beyoncé’s worst songs, but mother is giving us a performance so maybe your top 5 faves??

Vanessa Carlos

i’ve moved to bluesky so i barely even use twitter now anyways

ischristinaok

my twitter timeline is broken bc of the evil facists that took it over. Everytime i open the app it’s alt-right nonsense and “culture wars”. I’ve been seeing ppl going back to spam instagrams. Like that Blizzy girl on twitter is on spam instagram again. A lot of my irl friends have deleted twitter. It’s time to move on

Jayden Brown

I don’t get the Tyler hype. He’s weird to me. Like a creep. I don’t get it

Alexis

Would love a ranking of iconic 2000s movies or shows or even cultural moments. Anything to get a pop culture gossip fix w/ kenya

Amber Loveshe

The girls moved to Bluesky now Kenya, so it’s okay. We all sicka Twitter

Ramone Paris

also kenya: i get what you mean about ppls opinions bothering you. seeing stupid shit makes me wanna jump through the phone and beat somebody ass, and that’s how i know i gotta log off

Imani Branch

the abrupt cut off 😭

Imani Branch

SHOTT ATT??

Mariah L.

I love watching you bake during Vlogmas! Do you have any recipes you plan to try out?

Mariah L.

You deleting Twitter and Trump/Elon being evil inspired me to delete twitter and I’m almost 3 weeks clean! 🩷

Keith Primas

The way Kenya feels about Twitter is me with TikTok and I'm not even in TikTok, but I watch a lot of commentator YouTube channels and they only ever reference shit that's relevant on that sad-ass app.

Abisola

Omg or the time she babysat her niece and nephew then quickly realized she wasn't built for it (she mentioned it on Twitter previously lol)

Abisola

I would love to see random story times, like getting shot at..?? Whatttt! & some Black Friday buys, home stuff, writing updates, baking videos, reviews on movies or tv shows

Reyhan

Full agree on the twitter rant that’s why I stopped tweeting & just lurk occasionally

Reyhan

i know kenya loves a privacy but i would love to get some storytimes for vlogmas like the old days starting with you getting shot at ??! WHAT ??! (if thats not to traumatic of course) Also movie or album reviews Discussing your approach to writing a book, and how its going Maybe also vlogs, i would love to see you decorating or preparing for christmas

John Asdf

Thoughts on Isis and her accusations against her husband ?

Dynasty Andrews

Shot at?! We need a story time.

Gabriel Benton

I’ve been enjoying a few of my favorite YouTube content creators essays etc on Substack. If they don’t have a video they post something there instead.

Dee

Shot at???

Jordan Nwokeafor

Kenya!!!!!!! I love the edge drops, I’m omw to buy my second bottle lmao

Chris Tina

How society become so right winged and how we missed ie) shera 7, Nara , podcast men ))

Judith Ben

I've always wondered do you watch Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. It seems like your brand of Housewives and this season has been epic

Keanu C Jackson

My god - actually same, peoples stupidity literally makes me want to fucking KMS. It’s genuinely so insane that people’s stupidity is bothering me so much but it does. And I really need to get back into the habit of searching for information far and wide, but Google’s just been turning me off. Then again, Twitter’s bullshit has been turning me off but I’m still on there lol.

Danielle A

Deleted Twitter when nasty ass Elon musk bought the app but I would still peek once every few weeks. officially deleted it permanently right after the election . the app has become nasty mean-spirited and low vibrational and I could feel my spirit plummet even Instagram I'm not on as much anymore and I'm still trying to free myself from the shackles of Tiktok. Pinterest is really my only happy place these days. Instead of scrolling on Twitter and hearing 60 different opinions from 60 different people about a topic that I really don't care about I've been prioritizing my mental health and going back to reading instead

T_Maureen_I

Girl I can't even spend 2 days off Twitter . 2 weeks? U strong

Deidra

also those "character of the day" things were making me lose my mind. I had to sit back and ask why I give a damn.

titi

I have ocd and got super obsessive with checking twitter so I had to completely cut myself off a year ago. im literally lighter. I did not need that many opinions in my head.

titi

With respect to potential topics for Vlogmas, what are some of your favorite things to cook, bake, or eat during the holiday season?

Joe Fernandez

Getting shot at?? I hope you’re okay

GigiM

I’ve been on and off Twitter. I go like once a week or every two weeks but I’m trying to get rid of it completely. The discourse is definitely lame. I hopped on the other day and they were arguing over who sings with a teleprompter or not and I hopped right back off. It’s all silliness.

GigiM

Same here sis. Twitter has not been fun at all. Instead of being on my phone, I’ve been prioritizing my health and reading more books from genres I love. The less I know about what’s happening on the internet, the better my life is lol.

Tiara

I said Twitter is the only social media site I get on and become a nasty person like it forces you to be mean, want to tell somebody to stfu and tell people to kill themselves. It’s just really something about that app that set the stage for somebody like elon musk to turn it into what it is. But it’s been happening since like 2018

India Barrow

The kids are also finding their niches on the internet on these discord, streaming, little pockets of the internet that I couldn’t be bothered to look into. Nobody under 20 is fr on twitter if they not apart of a very specific part of twitter lol

India Barrow

Oh my god thank you. Retrospectives are happening too damn fast! "I think it's time to admit the Barbie movie sucked" What??? It's been a year lmao what you mean it's time?? They frame it this way bc they hate being in the minority. They hate feeling seemingly alone in their opinion. Twitter is so weird cause everyone bored as hell. Why you mad someone didn't like Wicked? Be normal! lmaoskdsk

Diana

5:10 no truly everything has wack juice on it 😭😭😭

l.

Also Elon Musk is a fucking loser. I need you to do a vlogmas video just reading him for fucking filth. Like he literally disgusts me.

Zoey B.

after getting locked out of my account for like 7 months i came to realize the quality of life was much better w/o it like.... had no idea what was going on and didn't care like #trulylivelaughlove

l.

The fact that people are paying $5/month plus tax for a blue check on their profile is insane to me.

Dani

After Trump won I was like “why do I use an app owned by a person I absolutely hate and have no respect for that helped an equally despicable person get elected?” That and I also decided I wanted to be mindful of the things I consume bc it was really effecting my mental health. So I said fuck it. I might go on once in a while, but I don’t stay long bc I do not wanna waste my time on this hell app. The only thing bothering me is the fomo I feel sometimes. But yeah, I’m not really missing anything.

Zoey B.

You getting older on the internet. Been feeling very similar since I turned 25. I lived when Facebook was edgy and only invited college students could be on it. So yeah I definitely know.

Selene

and stanning not even the same no more like we’re really losing recipes, there used to be an ART to stanning, now it’s just a bunch of losers with no personalities or lives and use celebrity obsession as an extension of their identity which is ironic bc the ones that be so overly obsessed be the same ones that simultaneously know absolutely nothing about the celebrity they stan, and then they try to play catch up about celebrity moments they weren’t there for that you had to be in the weeds to know, like y’all weren’t there when taylor swift and katy perry were beefing over backup dancers, yall weren’t there when zayn was cheating on perrie for bajillionth time, y’all weren’t there when hailey baldwin was stalking Justin and Selena before she became his wife but EYE was 😭

ceeitrus

Us "old hags" (late 20s, early 30s) remember IT ALL about pre-social media, fan culture, stan culture, celebrity culture. We had to put in the WORK to be who we were because we had nothing else. We were bored teens, kids or young adults at home. We had no choice but to create our own community. Now everything is so accessible, politically correct, etc. Everything is being merged over from here to there, and it's not as fun anymore. I still love the internet in general, but certain aspects of it are exhausting. The nicheness is disappearing.

Dani

Also can we get the Beyoncé worst songs😂 im ready to dunk on word wide woman! wWW 😂

Peter

I’d like you to talk about you thoughts on Zadie smith books. You said she’s on of your faves.

Peter

"Other people's stupidity makes me want to KILL MYSELF" ugh I love that you're also a scorpio cause we see each other! I'll see one moronic comment and I'm mad the whole day. I shouldn't let it have that power over me but such is life!

Elijah Ritch

Okay so if you feel comfortable talking about it, I fear we're gonna need a "getting shot at storytime" for Vlogmas. Also another one I'd love to see would be the long-awaited "least favorite Beyoncé songs" video!

Elijah Ritch

I swear if I could quit Twitter I would be golden because I quit Facebook ages ago, never liked ig or tiktok at all so that was never a problem. Idk why I use it bc I see something that grinds my gears everyday. For example, someone tweeted that they hate tipping culture because they felt like they were expected to tip their barista for doing their job. Like why do you need to alert us ur an asshole?!

Kayla Sanders

WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHOT AT??!! LIKE WITH A G.U.N.?? ARE YOU OKAY? (I mean obvi you're okay) BUT ARE YOU OKAY????

Dani

as far as topics to discuss: im sure you probably already planned this, but i would love to hear an update on your goals(completed and pending). maybe talk about about how black women musicians face more stigma regarding everything, at an abnormal amount compared to black men or non black women. maybe one on how ppl are changing terminology to hide their anti-blackness ie: woke, “female gaze”(sabrina carpenter), dei, etc. and how this is also an attempt to push conservative values. and regular people are falling for it and parroting it a more lighthearted one can be regarding the new pop girlies. i saw a tweet that said todays popstars are better than yesterdays pop stars. i feel as if they were talking more like pop stars from 2008-2018(or really 2014 because i feel like we were lacking new & true popstars for a min) and then 2019-now. some ppl were accusing the tweet of being anti-black(it was all white woman and olivia rodrigo). some were calling out the fact that gracie was included(idk that woman but ppl cant stand her it seems). so i want to know whats your opinion. i think of all of the “new era” popstars billie is the best by far, but are we gonna act like shes better than gaga in 09? and lastly, how nostalgia clouds ppls vision. i think it was you that said gaga gets criticized because she is no longer making 2010 pop hits. do you think nostalgia makes it hard for artists to grow? how important is nostalgia in longevity? why do you think some get caught up in the nostalgia box while others dont? beyonce gets to reinvent herself often and while there will always be rnb beyonce supporters, she gets to exist outside of of the 00s(her music is better than most so it could be that)

hydia steele

Girl you got shot at? Damn, glad you’re ok

TameshaMarie Evans

People have gotten way more mean and it's so weird. Like you said, even that's just giving persona/fantasy so it's just like for what...?

Lilac S.

the internet used to be so fun, everyone had their own niche and corner where they can earnestly talk about stuff, and now the internet is filled with a bunch of brainless losers and dweebs, and those ppl are constantly at the forefront of conversation that people take seriously and I simply can’t take it, I don’t even be scrolling on my timeline no more cus Ik ima see some fuckshit that’ll piss me off, and like you said all these cultures and interests are blending together so now you get a situation where some randy who would never be interested in what I’m interested in commenting on your shit like mind your business this ain’t for you 😭

ceeitrus

So excited for vlogmas!!

Ashley Brown

You are right about the stan thing. A lot of people claim to be stans now and dont even know their alleged faves middle name or birthday.

Cosmic Orbit

I'd love to hear your review of the wicked Movie for vlogmas!

Lyghtfoot

No for reaaal. So much of the internet is just straight up laaaaame. I feel like TikTok had a big hand in everyone telling the same jokes, having to like the same things, etc. I know I'ma sound so "back in my day," but for sake of example, part of what made vine so fun was that each vine was its own thing. No one took, "I almost dropped my croissant!" and repeated it to exhaustion in their own vines. Most clips were just stand-alone as they are. Part of the corniness comes from everything being so commodified (imo), but I also think with us living in so much surveillance, too much of the internet is a huge performance? It just feels so curated and not us oogling at happenstance anymore. There's also the fear of being caught minding your business in someone's video and then turned into a spectacle, but that's another discussion. All in all, so many have lost the plot fr.

Lilac S.

Took the words right out of my mouth. Vlogmas topic suggestion? Top 10 favorite films of all time? Idk, haven't heard your film thoughts in a while...

Solomon

Kenya you are preaching the GOSPEL!! It’s the lame leading the lame

JT

shot at ?!!??

posh

I was a diehard Swiftie (pre Matty Healy), and the Eras tour ruined it all for me. Everyone coming it and not knowing anything (OR trying to) but pretending to be the biggest fan. The sense of community is gone, and now we all gotta love Travis Kelce.

Dani

I’ve been off Twitter for a month… I broke once, on my laptop, and all I did was look at Itszaeok’s thoughts on Wicked, giggled, and then got out before I got pulled elsewhere😭…

Sara

This really sums up my disdain with the internet nowadays: people can't read/ have no comprehension skills, everyone wants to talk like an expert without knowing anything and nobody thinks they're wrong about anything.

Nyongbella

I need your thoughts about RHOSLC cause you’ve never talked about it before!

Farai Bennett

Yes!

Heidi Diaz

me n my man talk abt how we need to quit social media often, but fall back relatively quickly. our main complaints; virtue signaling, racism, bots, and the hive mind mentality. all of these things make me feel like ive become almost too smart for almost all sections of social media. i thought it was because i turned 25 and stopped stanning ppl(and the last person i stanned was nicki so that shit was exhausting), but Ive been a stan of one fandom or another since I was 13 and i can see how fandom has become part of our society. it’s deeply in politics atp. stan talk doesn’t do anything for me n i feel like we’ve all lost the plot. doja fans mad at doechi cuz of her nom and slowly starting a hate campaign revolving around doechi stealing dojas swag…all i could think is, if this turns into a viral tiktok ppl would be running around saying the same nonsense. and thats how all bs starts

hydia steele

I deleted TikTok a few weeks before the election and I’m so glad I did. My weekend was a mess and all I could think to myself “life is so bad, I should download TikTok rn” (I did not) salute to you!!

TaNiyia

Got shot at?!! Omg I’m glad you’re okay!!!

Heidi Diaz

What happened to ranking beyonces worse songs? 🫣

Heidi Diaz

are we still getting the beyoncé's worst songs video? 👀

YNK

“No Doja Cat” is SENDINGGGGGGGGGG ME 😂

Dijanae

I’ve been on the internet for nearly 30 years. Twitter/Social Media has been wack for years. Everyone is parroting the same cycled talking points. Substack is really my last stop because I’m grown and have better things to do 😂

Beverly Burgess

Fr everything's a talking point and up for judgemental like were in a goddamm court room

pasteleclectic

"No Doja Car" LMFAO

Vic

relating to this on a spiritual level because booktwt is somehow never about books…. like not a single good conversation and im not even speaking only abt intellectual conversations, even the jokes are not funny. like theres not depth to anything and thats really frustrating after a while

lorena

I feel like the lack of earnestness and optimism in real life has seeped into internet culture. It's just people trying to live out a mean girl/popular guy fantasy. Just constant hustle culture and one-upmanship for clout. People don't actually believe shit, they just say stuff.

Chris

VLOGMASSSSSS

Dani

Kenya!!!!! I said the same thing on TikTok when people were randomly talking about kinks or blind items, stans or talking about super niche topics like…sometimes my business isn’t EVERYBODY’S business. Everybody had their own space and now everybody got opinions and trying to be in the know mix like ugh. Bring back secrets and if you don’t know you not in the know!!!

Kris

Not the parking lot😭😭

Kayla Sanders

I haven’t posted on Twitter in a year. I promise you won’t miss it

Dionne Ayanna

“no doja cat” 🤣

Liz Huerta

SHOT AT??? Did the police try to get you for the parking lot last year?? Seriously though, glad you made it out

Vic

You got shot at???? KENYA DJDNDJKDEK AND U SAID IT SO CASUALLY

Danielle A

hope u have as much fun this vlogmas as u did augmas! something about your spirit in august was real fun to watch, i love to rewatch those lately lol. also i think elon has made it so easy to not feel like im missing out on shit, with how he facilitated the maga and bigots takeover…it’s become even more apparent this november. and you know what, we used to be able to be like ‘ppl on twitter are doing it for the love of the game, you can’t make money off this shit like you do other platforms’ and elon has really fucked that in the ass. everything is blue checks tryna fuel discourse for coin and rage bait. i’m tired of it all. tired of that transphobic white woman who don’t stfu about bathrooms, i got no fawking energy nor desire for the nonsense.

risa kim

jaw dropped!

beeg

Would love to hear your musical faves/fave projects of the year!! It’s been a great year for music

JT

SHOT AT ??? Maybe that can be a vlogmas topic…

Daniela Ruiz

I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR YOU DISCUSS THE BILLBOARD TOP POP STARS

Danielle A

I’m so thrilled you’re doing vlogmas again this year! I’ve been here since the first time you did it. Atp, it’s basically a part of my essential holiday festivities

Natalie Stravens

now we need to circle back to getting shot at we skated past that a little too quick

Montgomery Price

We need you on the butterfly app

Art Moroyoqui


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