No Filter: Lele Pons

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4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Every day this week, a new episode of our series, No Filter: Women Owning It Online, with New York Magazine’s The Cut. Five conversations with badass women. Some old, some young. ALL have bent the internet to their will. And trust us, you don’t have to be a woman for this series to be a must-listen.

Today, Lele Pons. And if you’re thinking “Lele who?”, you’re not a teen girl. The Instagram megastar talks to Manoush about crafting her image, controlling her edits, and why she gives her cell number to fans.

Tomorrow, Transparent actor Trace Lysette. Wednesday, painter Amy Sherald, who created that stunning portrait of Michelle Obama. Then CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour, and iconic artist Barbara Kruger, who blew all of our minds. Plus, writers from The Cut.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's No To Self, I'm a new summer Audi and this is day one of our special
0:08.3	series No Filter, Women Oning It Online.
0:13.4	We've teamed up with New York magazines The Cut to bring you five days of conversations
0:18.6	with fabulous women of different generations with very different ideas about what it means
0:25.0	to live well on the internet, from sexy selfies to questioning what it means to be a feminist
0:32.0	right now.
0:33.7	We cover it all with women like Transparent Actor, Trace Lissette, Painter Amy Sherrod,
0:39.4	she did that already iconic Michelle Obama portrait.
0:41.9	You'll hear from a total hero of mine, TV News anchor, Christian Amin Pore, and the artist
0:47.9	behind your favorite protest posters, Barbara Krueger.
0:52.0	Some of them are younger than me, some are older, all have bent the internet to their will.
1:00.0	Let's kick it off right now with Lele Ponds.
1:05.0	She calls herself a digital creator, yes I did use finger quotations.
1:10.9	This job title doesn't really give you a sense though of just how huge Lele is.
1:17.9	She's 21 years old, she has over 8 million YouTube subscribers, and 23 million Instagram
1:24.3	followers.
1:25.6	When my producers told me that she was like the perfect 20 something to talk to about
1:30.0	female empowerment online, I was like what, Lele who?
1:34.8	And see that's because I'm too old.
1:37.4	But then I read a really kind of upsetting but intriguing profile Lele by this woman.
1:47.7	My name is Ali Jones and I'm a senior writer at the cut.
1:51.2	Ali Jones, we wanted to talk to you first because the first conversation is with YouTube
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