Aurora's Blog

Well, that was unexpected. And a little wild.

I LOVE Tik Tok. Love it. Like, cannot get enough of it. It is the one app I use purely for enjoyment.

On twitter and instagram, etc., I’m always slightly worried about my ratio and all that. And hashtags. And whatever.

On Tik Tok, I’m there for fun! I love to watch videos, and duet some. I like silly trends.

And so I thought I’d hop on a trend, just for funsies. There was a trend going around where you’d say “the top 5 (or 10) things you wouldn’t do based off what you learned in [your profession].” So, I did “the top 10 things I wouldn’t do after working on reality television.”

I thought like 10 people would see it. But no. It’s up to over 300,000 views! I don’t know if that fully constitutes being “viral” per se, but it felt viral for me! I jumped up an extra 1,000 followers in one day – getting the ability to go live! It was pretty cool!

I mean, it also had the less cool side. Overall, the comments were positive, but I had a small handful of people being like “it’s not like this!”

And sure, I generalized a bit. Not every show is awful. But all the things I mentioned are things I’ve seen happen. I tried to just be nice to anyone who did comment that and say things like “I’m happy you didn’t experience this side of it!” And for the most part, people dropped it after that. There was one guy who made a stitch. He has a big following, so that made me a little nervous. I kinda wanted to walk things back, because I’m intimidated by this guy who’s an EP and has all this super confidence on Tik Tok. But… whatever, I guess.

There was only one guy who just kept going in my comments saying things like asking me not to act like I had experience I didn’t. And I was basically like ‘dude, you can disagree, but don’t discount me. I’ve done over 20 shows.’ And he was like “Oh. 20 shows?” But then asked follow ups to try to discredit me, because I wasn’t the right positions on those shows or whatever. So, eventually, I just let that peter out.

But it wasn’t the people who disagreed who were most interesting to me. People who were ON reality shows started commenting or messaging me! And a bunch of other people in the industry did too. And most people agreed with my assessment – which, in case you’re wondering was just… don’t go on a reality show. That was all 10 things (number 10 – 1 is just don’t do it) that I wouldn’t do, after working in the field.