Welcome to Is This Real Life, a Bravo podcast that relates our favorite shows to our own lives in the world around us.

I'm your host, Mandy Slutszer. Let's get to it.

Hi, everyone. I hope you're having a great week. And for those of you who are at BravoCon, I am extremely

jealous and please DM me as many tidbits of information, pictures, anything. I want to live vicariously

through you. I am actually in Colorado at a wedding, and so I wasn't able to make it.

So this podcast was pre-recorded.

And so instead of focusing on the shows that aired this week, I have an in-depth conversation

with Cece from Cece Loves You, the Instagram handle, about

online toxicity and how she's working through her page to be a bit more positive in the

Bravo online space. I just find it a really interesting conversation because we get into some of the,

you know, DMs and stuff that she's been having with Bravo Lebrides and what they experience

from this like online community that we have created. And some of it's positive and some of it's

very negative. And I hope that everyone who listens to

this can, you know, take stock of their behavior online. I know I've had to spend a lot of time

over the last few years thinking about how I engage online and who I engage with,

including things like unrelated to housewives, especially stuff like politics or, I don't know,

anything. If you see someone and they put something out there that you don't agree with or that triggers a negative

emotional response, is it something that you like immediately reply to? Or can you take a deep breath

and stop yourself from hitting the send button. And I think lately on Housewives,

Twitter and Instagram, people are just taking everything just very, very seriously.

And especially things like with Erica and what's going on with her. Clearly,

I have my strong opinions, but I'm not going to DM her and tell her what I think. And I'm not

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