(exclaims in excitement)
- I know y'all are all waitin' on me.
I'm not a celebrity but I had to pull
a fashionably late stunt.
(chuckles)
(bright pop music)
Alright.
My name is Kalin Elisa.
I'm a.k.a. #SquatBae, and you may know me from my viral meme
that was the Squat and Squint.
I was getting ready for my friend,
Kirsty and Nigel's baby shower.
I think toward in the end, she took the picture.
My other sisters, Ayana and Joseen, it's four of us,
we're the #SquatSquad and so in most of our pictures
we gotta hit a little low ratchet squat.
I dunno where we got it from, but I don't think
it's going anywhere anytime soon.
Every girl knows the go-to moves.
Well, as of lately we've just added this "Prison Squat"
to everything, I don't know why, but it takes a couple takes
to actually get it, so you're down there for a while.
You have to readjust yourself and make sure
everything looks good, so that's why my knees
started to ache up on me.
And I was like, "Wooh," lemme just take a little break
and rub these bad boys down.
The next day, I get the pictures
and I'm like, "Oh, that's a cute picture
"lemme just put it on Twitter it'll be funny."
And, that was it. (birds chirping)
When I initially posted it, I posted it
with actually what was happening,
so, "When you're knees are hurting
"when you squat for the gram."
That's the actual caption for it.
I thought the picture was funny, I mean,
it was one of my favorite pictures out of the whole shoot.
And I knew that it was the after
to what I put on Instagram for actual likes and stuff.
Some of my very close girlfriends
and Twitter, black Twitter, just ran with it.
The first one, I think, was the $20 at the door,
like the club entry fee.
And it then it just kinda went from there.
And I didn't realize it that was gonna be funny funny
outside of my timeline until that next morning
I woke up and one of my friend, Jadis' tweet tagged on viral
and then somebody else's tweet had gone viral.
And I was like, "Oh, wow!"
The day that Lil Duval posted it,
that was kinda like, okay, so a celebrity has it.
That's kind of crazy.
"When a short man has an attitude so you have to
"get on his level to see what his problem is."
(laughs)
So that was his, that's actually one of my favorite ones.
And then, maybe 3 weeks after that
is when The Shade Room did the Battle Of Da Memes.
It was me against Spongebob, toe-to-toe.
I would leap through my phone by the end of the screen.
I was like, Shade Room!
'Cause once you make the Shade Room,
like that's when I really realized
that it had gone viral and then after that,
it was on TV a couple times,
news channels all over were using it.
Yeah. (trumpet music)
That week, Topgolf reached out with doing
a promotional stunt for them,
and then my friend had to come to that,
and of course, that was taken care of.
So I kinda got to celebrate at Topgolf.
Imma say Rihanna, it was Fenty but, Rihanna reached out
and they sent me some stuff, which was awesome.
'Cause I love Fenty, I mean, that's every girl's dream
is to get a lil' box from Fenty from the mail.
Like, oh my goodness.
I don't have any negative experiences from this thus far.
It's all been nothing but positivity.
As far as comments, of course,
there's gonna be people that have negative comments
and stuff to say, but how can you be mad
with all this good goin' on?
I think it's a blessing that everything
was going viral at the same time as me getting on Tinder.
It's been interesting to have something to talk about,
obviously, like kind of as a very good icebreaker,
to talk about going viral.
So if we start with that, that's great,
but if our conversation is only revolved around that
and nothing more, then I kinda know
that it's gonna obviously not go anywhere.
And some people just wanna take #SquatBae out for a drink
and that's cool too!
(glass clinking)
So this is where we had the baby shower at Le Gomier.
They keep their hedges trimmed and stuff,
so it makes for a perfect Instagram background.
Since the pictures, it's my first time being back.
It's kinda crazy to think that, 6 months ago,
we had no idea what we were about to do.
It's kind of a wave of emotions that I'm feelin' right now.
Just kind of gratitude, and thankfulness,
just kind of a humbling experience as well.
The only piece of advice that I could really give
somebody tryin' to go viral is don't try.
I couldnt've planned that moment.
It just all had to happen, it all had to fall into place,
so I think if you just put positive vibes out
and put good intentions into everything that you do,
you're gonna get your moment.
It's just gonna come when you least expect it.
So don't try so hard, don't beat yourself up,
just let is rise, let it happen.
(uplifting pop music)