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hey y'all it's addison ray and these are
the tick tock moments that made me
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my first tech talk was around july 2019
and it was actually of my dad and it was
to this turning sound like
if i smile with my teeth and so i
recorded my dad doing it but he had like
these
fake teeth in and that was the first
thing i ever remember doing but the
first one on my page is with me and my
friends
and i have a cowgirl hat on and we're
singing a country song
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i think it was like august or september
when mariah carey liked my tick tock i
was in louisiana where i was going to
college
and i just did a video with my mom to
obsessed by mariah carey
and she liked it and i actually found
out she liked it from comments that were
like oh my gosh mariah carey liked this
and i was like did not believe it and
then i went on her profile and clicked
like her heart
and it had my video on it
probably august of 2019 i realized that
i wanted to do videos like consistently
i mean i was doing them for fun i wasn't
really thinking about it too much
i think that's why people liked it so
much but then when i hit a million
followers
oh my gosh it was the 27th october 27th
of 2019. i had a million followers and
that's kind of when i
started really realizing it could open
up a lot of doors
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i remember i left college or i like
dropped out of college
um probably november the end of november
2019 and then i moved
to la december 2019
i don't remember exactly what tic tac i
posted but i would assume it would be
with like
the friends i had met a few weeks before
but i'm sure it was like a dance one
it was around february of 2020 when i
went to the nba all-star game and that's
kind of when people started
noticing myself and others from the
platform outside of just tick tock and
started being interested in what we were
doing may
i started really doing a lot of videos
with my like entire family and like my
little brothers that's kind of like
what my podcast was kind of started off
of
was like me and my mom doing a lot of
stuff together and then my brothers kind
of got involved and then we started
doing like a family youtube channel and
stuff like that which
brought a lot of new opportunities to us
too
no i don't care um on august 22nd of
2020 i did
a video to the song
that was really interesting i didn't
think it would get as many views as it
did honestly i just did it because it
was like a challenge that was going
around
and my mom did it too and her video got
a lot of use too which was really crazy
and i think that's my most viewed video
which is like a lot of views
so that's wild
so on march 19th of 2021 i released
my debut single obsessed it kind of ties
back into like mariah carey
obsessed she liked my video um what a
small world
i think it was just a big message to
people to be in love with themselves
as much as they want someone else to
love them too
i don't think i'll ever kind of fade out
of doing tick tocks because it's where
i started and i think it's a big part of
you know where i am today but i'm sure
one day
i will post less with the amount of
followers i gained and how quickly it
happened
was really fast and definitely
life-changing everything in my life kind
of changed
mentally i had to adjust and emotionally
i had to adjust and physically i moved
my life really did a 180.
i've been enjoying the ride ever since
and it is definitely
an experience that i am figuring out how
to go through
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