Anonymous YouTuber Behind 'Spill Sesh' Reveals Her Identity
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5 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Kristi Cook is the founder of Spill Sesh, a popular online pop culture focused- Youtube channel. Previously working for TMZ, Kristi started Spill Sesh in 2018; anonymously. In November of 2023, Cook revealed herself to be the face behind the channel, garnering some shock with her reveal.
The success of Spill Sesh has given her creative freedom, but also the confidence to confirm her identity to the channel. Kristi always knew she wanted a career in media and learned so much about pop culture and celebrities via Youtube in her younger days.
Kristi Cook spills with Diane Brady on 'Forbes Talks' about her work at TMZ, what she loves about creating content, and what she plans to do in Spills Sesh's future.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody I'm Diane Brady. I'm here with Christy Cook who has revealed herself. |
| 0:07.0 | I think it's been a month and a half as the genius, the founder behind Spilsesh, the channel, it's a T channel on YouTube. the |
| 0:13.3 | channel it's a T channel on YouTube. |
| 0:15.2 | Yes. |
| 0:16.2 | First of all, thanks for being and you have more than 700,000 subscribers. |
| 0:21.8 | So let's start. I want to talk about the reveal, but I want to start with what is a T channel. |
| 0:27.0 | A T channel is an evolving term these days. I feel like in the beginning when I first started it was a lot of |
| 0:36.3 | playful conversations about influencers, especially in the makeup community on YouTube and now we're even talking about celebrities and the stories aren't always just silly and fun |
| 0:47.8 | We're talking about a lot of serious things as well now. So I think it's journalistic. I was looking at me so let's talk about this |
| 0:55.8 | Reveal you were anonymous for several years. What made you decide to reveal yourself and give, bring your name to the world? |
| 1:06.0 | I definitely felt like it was time after five years to do the reveal just to expand the things that I could do within the channel. |
| 1:15.0 | I felt like things were going really good but in order to grow and you know go out and |
| 1:20.4 | maybe do interviews with people or talk to the people that I'm making videos |
| 1:24.2 | about that I would probably... |
| 1:26.7 | It's hard to be anonymous. |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.0 | Well, what's been the reaction so far? Because I imagine with anonymity comes a certain level of comfort and privacy. |
| 1:38.0 | For sure. And now of course you must be getting a lot of people reaching out. |
| 1:42.0 | Tell us about that. I think it's definitely... you must be getting a lot of people reaching out. |
| 1:43.1 | Tell us about that. |
| 1:44.1 | I think it's definitely a mixed feeling of just really excited |
| 1:49.3 | that I'm not stressed out about people finding me and you know it getting out before I could put it out there |
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