My name is Jilly, and I Blew-A-Bag.
From Houston, Texas, born and raised.
I now live in LA, Los Angeles, California,
and I do music, I'm a musician.
And you guys may know me from Instagram,
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YouTube, and a lot more stuff.
I've been doing music all my life.
I started doing music at the age of four, five years old.
I did dance at two, so I've been doing dance,
performing, for as long as I can remember.
I grew up doing all types of sports.
Basketball, soccer, competitive cheer,
competitive dance, karate.
My last real job before I moved to LA,
I was a babysitter, believe it or not.
I was a babysitter.
I'm not taking any more applications, no.
But I was a babysitter for pretty much
all my high school years,
and I started really focusing on dance and singing,
and those were what I really fell in love with.
And I started doing high school musicals,
even middle school musicals,
and I would get auditions and stuff for them
and end up always having the lead role,
so I was like, "You know what? I kind of see a future in this.
I kind of like this.
I kind of like having an audience."
That was a fluke. It just happened.
I started doing Instagram. I got with a group of people
who were doing skits and everything at the time,
and that blew me up.
The first time I ever got a big check
was when I first signed with SAG and I was doing acting as well,
and I had a role in one of the criminal shows,
and that was my very first big check.
It came in the mail, and it had the little clear part
where you could see my name, payment to,
so when I opened it, I won't disclose the amount,
but I was like, "Oh snap, this is for me?"
I called my mom and dad so quick,
and mind you, this was when I still wasn't paying my rent,
so I was like, "Oh, all this money's going to me.
Oh snap, I'm rich! I'm rich!"
I wasn't paying for my gas to get in my car,
I wasn't buying groceries yet.
I was still calling daddy to put some money on my debit card,
so I was like, "All this is mine."
My mom was like, "So how about you pay your rent now?"
I was like, "Uh, can you all give me one more year?"
I blew up super fast on Instagram,
like crazy fast, like unheard of fast.
I did, like, two million follows in like six months.
It was crazy. It was ridiculous.
And since then, I've just been hustling,
doing my music, and building my music portfolio.
Dropping projects, dropping songs,
and dropping videos, and that's why I'm here.
When I moved to LA, I didn't have any money,
my parents were paying my rent, they were paying my bills.
My lights and water were working because of my parents,
thank you mommy and daddy.
Appreciate you. Shout out to you all.
Whenever I needed to go eat, I would call daddy and be like,
"Can you put $100 on the card? You feel me?"
I needed some groceries and stuff.
But that's when I was like, "Look, I can't be doing this."
Even though I was 18, I still felt like
that was an okay age to be asking mommy and daddy
for money still, I was like, "This is getting out of control.
If I want to go to the CVS,
I've got to call daddy for some money."
I'm like, "I can't do this anymore.
I need to get on my blow-a-bag level."
So that's when I start really picking shit up.
And the second check that I got was
when money really started picking up.
That was actually from YouTube.
So I was like, "Okay, you know what?
They love my personality when I do these Instagram videos
or when I do stories or whatnot,
so let me relate it into 10, 15, 20 minute YouTube videos."
So when I got my first first big check from YouTube,
it was like five figures, it was.
That was my first one, though, that wasn't recent.
And that's when I moved.
I definitely moved into a really, really nice place.
That rent went up.
And I started really spoiling myself a little bit more.
I don't spoil myself like crazy,
I spoil my family more than I spoil myself.
I'll be so quick to go get my brother a Gucci backpack,
the newest Gucci hoodies. My mom, purses, all designer.
My dad, all beautiful ass sweatsuits and everything.
When it came to me, I think a lot of stuff
I buy myself, I love purses. I do.
I just bought a new Louis purse the other day.
It's super, super cute.
It's like a little box with a mirror inside.
It's cute. Don't try to cop that.
So I think when you buy jewelry, you buy yourself nice pieces
and nice stuff, you're kind of like,
"Okay, this is dope. This is dope."
Except for when that big old chunk of money
comes out of your bank account. You know what it is?
The biggest time of year when I really spend crazy,
crazy bread is the holidays.
And like I said, I like to spoil my family,
so I go a little bit overboard. Even though family's about love,
family loves you and stuff, but I don't know,
for some reason, you always feel like you have to up it.
And like, "Last year I did this, so this year
I've got to do this. Next year
I've got to do that just to up this year and to up last year."
And I think that's when you're like,
"Okay, look. I love you all.
I'm not going to keep upping shit
because a bitch has got to keep having money.
You feel me?" But year, that's really when you notice.
Christmas, those bank accounts be going lower and lower
because you be swiping, swiping, swiping.
One of the funniest things is also being social media big
is the simple fact that people want to label you
as an Instagram model when the funny thing is,
Instagram doesn't pay me.
Instagram has never sent me a check.
I have never gotten a "To Jilly Anais,
Jillian Anais Moore, check from Instagram".
Instagram has never paid me.
I would actually love to be paid.
Instagram is a multi-billion dollar company.
I would love to be paid some billions
and be called an Instagram model.
Shoot. But the funny thing is
is because you have these endorsements
and these companies who you work with,
and you're getting paid to do posts,
people want to label you as an Instagram model.
And like I said, Instagram does not pay me at all.
Companies pay me.
I have endorsement deals by companies to post pictures
because of my following.
All my postings, I am making bread.
Every last post I make, I make bread.
So from them all being paid sponsorships, it's like,
"I'm not complaining." Instagram is a real job.
Just because I'm not clocking in and clocking out of somewhere,
just because I don't work a nine to five
doesn't mean I'm not working. I make more than a nine to five,
and not in any shame, putting down way,
because we need those people who work nine to fives,
we need the people in every aspect,
but at the same time, it's like,
"Don't shame me because I'm making six figures
off of Instagram."
And that's only partial, that's not everything else.
I have also more six figures on YouTube.
So all these social media instincts people are so confused
on how are they doing the same thing,
but yet not making money?
But I'm going to just keep it lit. I love Instagram.
I love waking up and being my own boss,
having my own schedule,
and I think the best part about it
is having to get dressed
for no reason, go absolutely nowhere,
but yet take a picture like you're going somewhere.
I love it, though.
After blowing up on Instagram,
I really had been spending crazy money.
Louis shoes, Rolex's, Cartier, stuff like that
because what girl doesn't love diamonds? Diamonds.
But let me tell you something, lace fronts aren't cheap.
Getting your nails done every week.
And I didn't say every other week, I said every week.
I'm not cheap. You see these are fresh.
This is a fresh refill. This is fresh.
And I would show you all my toes,
but I've got on boots.
But none of this stuff is cheap. None of it.
And let me let you know this.
Instagram probably will be gone in a second.
I have music to continue with the rest of my life.
Music is what I came out here for,
and music is the only thing I really do.
So to speak for people who are social media big,
and that's the only thing you do,
I would say save, save, save your money
before you go from rich-rich to broke-broke
because once you live this cream of the crop lifestyle,
I don't know how much you're going to like the other one,
so save your money
because there's nothing like flossing and blowing a bag.