![]() ![]() It’s like, “Where has this come from, is my name out there somewhere?” It’s very bizarre. I’ve done magazines in the past and it’s like, bizarre. Even doing this magazine thing, it’s all very new. It’s like Wendy, she’s said really offensive things and people are just like, “But it’s Wendy, she’s old, she’s been around forever, we love her.” You know? If you last a certain amount of time, you just automatically get icon status whether people like you or not.ĭid you notice a shift, and when was that? When it was like “Oh Trisha, she’s mother now”? It’s one of those things where you get grandfathered in. It’s just me – I’ve done solo podcasts before and no one’s cared, I’ve done solo things and so it’s cool. It’s so weird to have people rally behind me for positivity. I feel like this is your first moment of having press that is based on you being an icon and you being a star, and you as a positive thing. It’s more the notoriety, on billboards, on TV. I’m just like, “That’s insane.” And she’s doing it five times a week. I think for our generation it’s hard to rationalise, so we keep going back to the industry and wanting acceptance from the industry, but you get there and it’s like “No one’s even here.”īut in my head, I’m like “Oh my god that’s so cool, I wanna do a film, I wanna do something that’s tangible.” And the pay! We even looked it up, because I love Wendy Williams, and she was getting like $55,000 an episode. You were around ten years ago when it felt like you had to be part of the industry to make anything of yourself. Oh yeah, censored, you don’t get control, creative. What TV show does that? It’s pretty wild.Īnd you would have to play by all their rules, not say anything you wanna say. On TikTok you get 200 million views a month. It’s only the past three years where it’s like “Oh, this is getting more numbers than television.” And I’m so old school where I think, “I wanna be on TV.” But in reality, TV gets way less views. YouTube is social media’s mainstream, which was never the case before. My digital camera could only do like 60 seconds, all my first videos were 59 seconds long, because I didn’t know how to edit or anything. ![]() It’s cliché to say, it was like cat videos or people doing webcam videos or something. When I started YouTube no one was making money, it wasn’t highly produced. How have you seen it change from 2006 and where do you see it going? “Maybe when I actually became a mother people were like “mother”, you know?” Below is our freewheeling, at times chaotic, conversation, which took place at her home. Not ever trying to be funny, but almost constantly laugh out loud hilarious. Trisha IRL is almost identical to the Trisha we know now online, but with an added warmth. There’s something about Trisha on the internet that is both completely unfiltered and candid while also remaining mysterious and unknowable. When it was confirmed, I posted to my close friends and I got more congratulations messages from my friends than any project I have ever worked on. When I found out Polyester was doing a cover with Trisha, I immediately begged to interview her. ![]() Others come and go, but Trisha is for life. She’s the one person that my algorithm knows not to hide from me. “I don’t think there has been a day that has gone by in the last 3 years where I haven’t thought about Trisha Paytas, or consumed some of her body of work in some way shape or form. For our November cover, Polyester commissioned writer, comedian and actor Jordan Firstman to interview Trisha Paytas, one of the internet’s longest standing creators, at home in California.
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