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Hey everyone, welcome back to Teenage Therapy. I'm Gayao. I'm Thomas. I'm Kayla. I'm Mark. I'm Isaac.

And today we're joined by Taylor Lawrence.

Oh, hi there!

Thank you so much for being here Taylor. Oh my gosh, of course I'm honored.

So do you want to tell the audience what who you are, what you do? All of that?

Sure. Sure. So yeah, my name is Taylor Lawrence or Lawrence. I don't even know the right way to pronounce it.

But I write about internet culture for the New York Times. So I'm a journalist and I cover things like social media,

like internet, online trends, YouTubers, all of that kind of stuff.

Pretty New York Times.

Cool. Yeah, you're a, I mean, Taylor's a pretty big deal in the influencer world. Basically everyone knows about her articles.

Yeah, I write a lot about influencers. I've probably been writing about influencers longer than like anyone.

I mean, not anyone, but a lot of people. I'm in my like mid 30s now and I've been doing it for over 10 years.

So I remember when there was like the first generation YouTubers like I was.

Shane Dawson. Yeah. Yeah, I know a lot of them are still around.

Tyler Oakley, all that. So.

Very first ones. That's cool. Yeah, you do a lot of influencers. You know, people mistake you for like a teen reporter, which you're not.

Yeah, I don't really like to. It's funny because I mean, now that I'm older, it's funny. Like when I started writing about this stuff and kind of working in like online,

I, I, people really associated that stuff with millennials. I made a bunch of really viral tumblers in like 2009.

So that's how people on the internet sort of started to know who I was and everyone just thought like, oh, like viral stuff.

Oh, like, memeers. Like, that's all millennials. And then now it's like in the past couple years, people like, oh, no, like that's just Gen Z.

Like, which is true? Like, I mean, the internet is like run by teens, but I don't, I write about stuff that happens on the internet, like any age, you know, I write about older influencers, younger influencers, YouTubers that have been on there for 10 years.

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