Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of Hi-Lo with Emrata. This is the solo episode.

Emrata asks where I pose a question. We investigate. I'm excited about this one today.

If you didn't listen to this week's episode with Iggy Azalea, please do. I really love that episode.

We get into commodification of body and taking back control even through cosmetic surgery.

She talks about starting her only fans and I'm excited to do an episode where I incorporate a lot of people who have used only fans or sex workers in general.

If you'd like to join that conversation, I think the episode will be next week. Go to Hi-Lo.fm and submit your audio voice note.

I'm looking forward to hearing from all of you on that.

I saw something online that I would not normally respond to. I'm hesitant to talk about this today because I don't want everyone to think that I pay attention to everything I'm tagged in.

I don't, but I will say now that I have the podcast. I definitely want to interact with all of you a lot more.

I read comments and I did before, but now it feels a little bit more intentional.

I saw some tweet by a guy who doesn't have a large following. I haven't even looked him up because I don't want to give him the time of day.

But it was a picture of me and he said something along the lines of emrata is the definition of mid and she's the most overhyped woman in the world right now.

And I got tagged in all these responses to it where people were calling him out for the way he looks.

But then the thing that really got me going was how many people responded being like, oh nice way for you to get attention.

This is a really great tweet to get your Twitter popping again and to show your back on Twitter.

Again, I don't know who this person is. I'm assuming it's someone who has a lot of hot takes essentially.

And that started to get me thinking about what I wanted to talk about for this episode, not about whether or not I'm hot.

I don't care.

But about hot take culture and the way that we approach getting attention and getting interactions.

And even how maybe hot takes aren't always just about being deliberately provocative to get attention.

But also how it can be a way of establishing an identity and feeling good about yourself and building out this sort of curated persona that exists online.

I want to be clear here. I do this all the time. This is what I built my career off of right in the early days of Instagram.

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