Dumb Blonde - TBT: Kristi Howard

Episode Date: July 3, 2025

The beautiful Kristi Howard joins Bunnie this week to talk about manifesting a career as a social media star, even when no one was watching. She opens up about her sister's tragic death and how it impacts her every day, what it's like to have millions of people watching your every move, why she loves sharing stories both in front of and behind the camera, and more about the new love in her life. Kristi talks about moving to Nashville, the Jenna Marbles comparisons and what's next for her in 2023. Kristi: TikTok | IG Watch Full Episodes & More:www.dumbblondeunrated.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Today, I have the ultimate TikTok sensation, Christy Howard in the house. What's up, baby? How are you? Hi. I love that. I had to get that out of the way. It's so iconic.? How are you? Hi. I love that. I had to get that out of the way. It's so iconic. I love that because I do that too. We were doing that last year with the Why Is It Spicy? Like we were so fucking, that was like our jam.

So when I heard, when I stumbled upon one of your TikToks and I heard you do it, I was like, this is my fucking people right here. I really feel like I don't do it that much in person. I think I just like did it one time, like in a video and people were like, do that again. And so then I would do it again and now it's like if I post a vlog or something and I don't do it people are like where's the high and they're like I don't like it and I'm like okay fine that is so funny you know who you remind me a lot of um I don't know if anybody's

ever told you this but you remind me a lot of a younger Jenna Marbles. I get that all the time. I've got that even before social media. When I was 14, no matter what hair color, no matter what, I've always got that. And I personally don't really see it. I mean, I'm flattered. I love that because I watched her. She's a genius.

But I never watched her in where it was where I would want to get her mannerisms and that, like that. Right. I don't see it. I think it's more your vibe. I think it's more your vibe where you're just like funny. You'll talk about whatever fucking tampons, fucking yeast infections, whatever. And yeah.

And so like, I think it's just your openness and your vibe that people are, you know, comparing that to, but it's definitely she's a fucking icon. Yeah. We wish I was Jenna would come out of fucking hiding, man. I know what I feel like she will eventually. I hope so. She's gonna pop up on these hoes. Well, let's, I want to get to know you because you know, we get to see the person on the camera

that's on TikTok all the time. And you know, I know as well as you know that there's always a person behind that, you know, and I want to get to know that person. So where did you grow up at? I'm right from right outside of Atlanta. OK, a Georgia, Georgia peach. I am.

Yes, my parents are very southern. And I went as like crazy. Where's your accent? I don't know. Like I went to college in Arizona and everybody met my parents and they're like, why don't you sound like them? And I was like, my theory is truly

because I feel like we were growing up with social media. So like I've I talk the way of the people I watch and the people I, you know, I don't know. Yeah, my mom, like my OIs I say like old vinegar, like toilet, like certain stuff like that. I don't know, I have words, but I don't really have the like twang that they do. I love it.

I'm from Houston. I don't have an accent because I grew up in Vegas. So if I do have an accent, it's a Valley girl accent. Yeah, I always tell everybody I'm a Valley girl because Vegas isn't a Valley. So you grew up in outside of Atlanta. What brought you to Nashville? Literally nothing. I didn't know a single person here

and I didn't know anything about it. I'd never been and I just wanted to move because I was living the same life every day. How old were you when you moved? This was two years ago. Oh, okay. So recently you didn't move with your parents here. I wanted to move because I was living the same life every day and I don't know. How old were you when you moved? This was two years ago. Oh, okay, so recently you didn't move with your parents here. It was COVID like 2020, uh-uh.

Okay, gotcha. And I wanted somewhere that was like driving distance because I am very close to my family. Yeah. So I was like Charleston or Nashville, I don't know. And so I just like got a really shitty hotel and I drove and I toured two apartments and then I brought my mom back with me

and I like convinced them and I told them, they said, we'll support you as long as you have a job, like you know what you're gonna do. And I bartended before COVID, so my idea was, oh, Nashville, I'll bartend there when things open back up and that's so touristy, like I'll make so much money. But then social media started taking off for me,

so I obviously never ended up bartending and I just started doing that. Well, let's rewind, because we'll get into the social media thing. So growing up how is your relationship with your parents? Really good. I feel like I've taken it for granted until recently. Like I realize now I'm saying that how like a lot of my friends and stuff don't have like my parents are still together and they're both the best parents ever. They've given me such a great life and I feel like I was never grateful for it until recently and like now I can really appreciate it and see it and see I just consider

myself very lucky and I just I don't know I love my parents are great. I love that so there's no trauma. No not yeah no not with my parents. Gotcha. How long have they been together? Should I know that? I don't know. She's like, bitch, I don't know. Just as fucking as long as I've been alive. Yeah, my mom always says, cause my dad is like literally a sweetheart.

Like I love my dad so much. And my mom always says, well, he was a player before, like they dated for nine years before they got married. She's like, it took him a while to finally settle down with me, but now he loves me. He must be a Sagittarius. He's a Sagittarius. He's a Taurus. Oh, okay. There's my whole team over here. Yeah. That all the Taurus's are hooting and

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So my brother and I are 14 years apart. My sister and I were 14 months apart. So that's like a huge age gap. But my mom had my brother when she was 18 and he never knew his dad. So my dad basically like raised him. I don't know when my parents exactly met, but for the most part, my dad is his dad.

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Were you the cheerleader or describe to me what Christy was like in high school? So my sister was my role model. What she did, I would do, but she would also never make me do something really fucked up. So she So she was 14 months older? Yeah older. Okay. And you know she told me to do something I'm like okay sure like she does it it's fine and so she kind of like got me into stuff but never anything bad like she never wanted me to do anything past like she you know she

wanted me to smoke weed with her when I was really little and like she didn't even drink I don't know but she never would want me to go past that or anything, it was always very motherly and protective over me. But I never realized how, I guess, like wild my life was growing up until now, I talk about it to my friends and they're like, that's fucking crazy, like I smoked weed with her when I was like 11 and 12, like,

holy shit, literally 12 years old and I was probably like oregano, but you know, I didn't know, but we would just get like high and be like weird little 12 year olds and smoke out of the Sprite can and stuff like that. How would you guys know to even smoke weed that young? I was still fucking making my Barbie dolls hump. So no. Okay. We did that too. We really didn't do that. Playing house with the neighbors,

with the neighborhood boys in the forts. Like that's what I was doing. Well, she always looked like 30 when she was 14, 15. Wow. She always looked so grown. Just an old soul probably. She got double D's when she was in fourth grade. Holy shit balls.

And so whenever I was in fourth grade, I hadn't had my period yet. And so I was like, where are mine? When are they coming? They're gonna be, one day I'm gonna have big boobs. They never came in. So never got boobs, but it's okay. Well, they're gonna be one day. I'm gonna have big boobs. They never came in so Never got boobs, but it's okay

But she always had like, you know perfect teeth and huge boobs and like long hair and it was just like I don't know So she always hung out with like older people and stuff like that. I guess I don't know. She was just so cool I was always Kat Howard's little sister like no one knew my name like I was her little sister She like ran shit and she was like known, everyone knew her. She was like very popular around Gwinnett County, I guess. Oh, I love that though. And I just tagged along. Seems like you idolized her a lot. So did you, so smoking weed, did that turn into anything else

or was it just always partying? Like, you know, like partying. Even to this day, I still try and get myself into it and I can't and like people always suggest it for me with my anxiety and stuff and I'm like, y'all don't understand, like it makes it worse and I'll try like gummies, I'll try and get myself into it and I can't. People always suggest it for me with my anxiety and stuff. I'm like, y'all don't understand, it makes it worse. And I'll try gummies, I'll try everything. It doesn't mean I don't do it, I still do, but I can't get into it.

But I became more of, I'm like the drinker. And she never really liked drinking. She just did other things, but I only would drink. But even when I think back about all the parties that I'd be a freshman at and there'd be all seniors, I don't even think that, what was I doing? Was I even drinking or was I just weird and talkative? I was so outgoing when I was around her and growing up

and now it's such the opposite, it's weird. She was your safe space. Yeah, I feel like I have to have a drink in my hand to be in public or be anywhere. Yeah, I understand that. Which might be a problem, but I just don't go anywhere. Yeah, I understand that. Which might be a problem, but I just don't go anywhere. Yeah.

So do you struggle with anxiety? We'll reel it back, but you said that. So Kat was 14 months older than you, so you guys both graduated, or she graduated, then you graduated, and then you moved here? Or what happens after graduation? So she actually didn't do high school the way I did. This was when we were young and when she was a freshman in high school, no I was a freshman

and she was a sophomore, she I think got kicked out. What kind of girl? I don't know, she got kicked out of a lot of places we went. I was always moving schools but lived in the same house because I would just follow wherever she went. My mom would pick me up and say we're going to somewhere else so the next day I'd be the new girl. Was she just follow wherever she went. My mom would pick me up and say, we're going to somewhere else. So the next day I'd be the new girl. Was she just like fighting or? It was like, it started as in like her having a pink strip in her hair.

And then it started as in her calling a teacher a bitch. Like it wasn't ever anything that was like crazy. Yeah, that warranted the punishment. But like we first started at a private school. So like the things we were doing were insane. Like people, I don't know. And it wasn't even bad. And I just get picked up from Carpool

and be like, okay, where are we going? Time to meet new friends here and here. Like people, I don't know, and it wasn't even bad. And I just get picked up from Carpool and be like, okay, where are we going? Time to meet new friends here and here. And like, you know, she'd walk in somewhere and make friends by the end of the day where I was quiet and it was like, I don't know, but she would just introduce me to people and stuff like that.

Yeah. But yeah, so anyways, high school, we were in a new high school and she didn't last very long. I don't remember exactly why this time, but she always went to like alternative schools at that point. She would be in and out of rehabs and behavioral places, and since she was under 18, she would have to stay in them.

Rehabs just for her behavior or for substances? So that's probably when all the substance started. Gotcha. So how I said she was really pretty, and looked, you know, whatever. So when she was 14 said she was really pretty and like, you know, whatever. So when she was 14, she dated an 18 year old. And his dad was like a doctor,

but his dad was like really like a sketchy doctor, like was prescribing people things they shouldn't. Like the hair, he like one of those doctors at the film house. He did it like in his house. It was something really weird. Like I know his license is taken away now. Oh my gosh. So he, the son-

Those are the most dangerous doctors. It literally blows my mind to this day. Yeah, no, it's crazy. And so the son would get stuff, I literally am gonna sound stupid, but triple Cs, cough syrups, skittles. I don't know, yeah. So I remember that's what he would take

and he'd give them to her. And he would just, she was just 14. I can't even remember my brain when I was 14. I was weird, I was a different person. And she said yes one time and then it led to other things and then eventually her body would start hurting and she'd move on to more hardcore stuff. Right.

And it was always. So she did develop a habit. Yeah, and it was weird because I personally never knew anyone that did any of that stuff. Right. I just didn't understand it. So to me, I just didn't get why, like, what are you doing? Like you have everything handed, you're beautiful,

you have everything handed to you. You're watching your idol. We have great parents, we had a great upbringing. Like why are you doing this gross stuff? That's in my head what I was thinking. Well, it's gotta be hard as a child too, just to watch your idol go through that. You really cherished your sister.

To see that and not be able to help her probably took a pretty big toll on you. Yeah, for sure. And she'd just be like embarrassed. She'd be like, you think I wanna do this? My, like I'm in pain. She would wake up with like nightmares and I'd be, you know, like 15

and I'd hear her screaming and getting sick, like dope sick. And I'd just go wake her up and I'd be like, what are you doing? And she'd be like, I'm hurting, Christy, I'm hurting, I'm hurting, but I don't wanna use like sweats. And I did not know what was going on because I wasn't educated about this at all. And I don't think my parents really understood

what was happening either. It was just so, it just developed into this huge thing that no one could ever, you know. And that was when she was like 14 and you know, she battled that, never went away for, I mean, it's the rest of your life, you know, when you're an addict, you're always gonna fight that even when you're clean, you're always every day.

Like, it's just from then on, it just kind of went, not downhill, she always was the same bright, full person, but it went from me looking up to this person I idolized, watching her be so confident and cool and so popular to being the person, I've never met anyone but her who's hated themself so much. She just was so insecure and just like,

it just wasn't herself, it was so weird. And I felt like she just started then envying me and being jealous of me, because I was going to proms and I was going to football games and having friend groups and we were the same age and she was just having to fight every day and just get sick and it was like,

it flipped and it was probably like, you know, really hard for her and sad. Did they ever find out like, if maybe she was battling like bipolar disorder or- Our whole family has like mental illness. Like we're all like, all of us. Same sister. All of us, every single, my mom, my brother.

My huge advocate for speaking about mental health because I have battled suicidal depression and anxiety to the point where I couldn't even what's up? No, he's snoring. He's sleeping. His name's trash. What is it? That is so funny. Trash. Is it really loud? Baby, you got to wake up. Sorry. He's asleep in my lap. Me as a dog. That is funny. I think we need to name our next animal trash. That would be awesome. I like that. I actually don't mind it. It doesn't bother me at all. Um, no, we're huge advocates about mental health on this podcast because you know, I have battled it for a long fucking time. My mom was fucking diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, so I get it.

Mental health is a topic that really needs to be talked about way more than it is. So do you battle with anxiety and stuff like that? Yeah, I have terrible anxiety. Was this before or after your sister's death, which we'll get to that. A lot of people ask me that, but it was before. I think a lot of people think

that it didn't start till after. No, I would think that it would start before when you saw her start crumbling and felt helpless. Yeah, and it made me, I feel like I always had her with me going places. She wasn't ever present anymore. She was always off places. So it made me just like go from kind of being enabled

by her literally, like she was like a mom to me To you being her caretaker. Yeah, and then I just like didn't know how to speak to people and didn't know how to like Like I don't know I just started getting nervous about going places without having someone next to me when I was grew up only having someone next to me I didn't know anything else. So it just made me like a really like next to me. I didn't know anything else. So it just made me a really socially awkward person and very just anxious about everything I do.

And I used to not be like that at all. Yeah, it's trauma. It's just what you went through is trauma. Yeah. So do you think that you moving to Nashville was you trying to get away and separate yourself from your sister? Yes, which makes me feel like shit.

Because the last year of her life was out of every single year ever, was the least close we've ever been. And I hate that because even when we had each other blocked, we're in fights, didn't speak for weeks, whatever, I still, you know, we'd still come back, whatever. And it was like the longest period of time we'd gone not being okay.

And I really hated that. And we resolved things before she passed, which thank God, but she was begging me to come visit her. And I kept saying, I don't have time, because she was in a rehab in South Florida. And I was like, I don't have time to visit you. Like, I'm trying to move. I just like, don't have time for all that.

When you're clean, like we can talk. I was just like annoyed. And I was- I get it, I understand. And so to visit you. I'm trying to move. I just don't have time for all that. When you're clean, we can talk. I was just annoyed. And I was- I get it, I understand. And so I carry that guilt with me, but at the same time, I don't know. She always had this thought that she thought that I hated her all the time.

Even I go through all her journals, and obviously I went through her texts and stuff. I had to delete all her nudes before my parents got her phone. That's shit people don't think about. That's a good sister though. Yeah, my mom was like, can you get in? My mom doesn't know how to work a phone and any technology.

And she's like, can you find her passcode? Passcode's my name. First thing I guessed. And then I went straight to the camera roll and I deleted all her videos, all her pictures. Because I hoped someone would do that for me. Yeah, absolutely. And that's just something you don't think about.

But yeah, because my mom's trying to snoop through stuff. I'm like, uh-uh. She doesn't need to see that. Yeah, you saved your mom a lot of extra heartache. So you moved here for two days, or five days. You had been in Nashville for five days. And then what happens? Walk me through that.

So I was here for five days. And my parents agreed that they'd help me out moving here if I was in school. So I was still doing online college, trying for like the hundredth time. And then I got a nanny job and it was my first day ever on the job. And I finished by 11.30 AM,

like I started like 6 AM to 11. It was just like a trial thing. And right when I finished, that's when my dad called me and gave me the phone call that she passed away. And it was literally so five days I hadn't even been there a full week the first day of my job in this place And my dad's like you need to get on a plane and come home and I'm like

How am I supposed to get there by myself? I how do I what what do I pack? What do I do? Yeah, I like I just it was traumatizing and I sat for like 12 hours straight in my room in Nashville and finally- You froze. Yeah, and I had no one come, you know, I didn't want them to come to me, but it's like if she were alive, she'd be the one that'd come to me

and help me get my stuff together to go. So it was just so weird. What did she pass away from? Was it an overdose? She overdosed, fentanyl. But like that bitch was strong. Like she literally like could take a lot and I just you know she did heroin. So when someone does heroin you know and they're active you know there's a chance. Yeah. All the time. But in my head my sister

Kat Howard was never gonna die. Like I knew I wasn't stupid. I knew that that's what happened. But you just really don't actually think it's gonna happen to like you and your family. So I was just convinced like dude, stop because she'd be like I'm so and so day's clean. And you just believe that and then it's just never it really never ends. But then she passed away in the rehab facility or would the day already release her? It was a whole thing. She was in a detox center.

Wow. And I had girls reach out to me and tell me the full story after she passed because we only knew really nothing. Nobody was helping us at all. And my mom was like bat shit crazy, like getting a detective, like we need to get to the bottom of this.

The deaths in South Florida, they just kind of walk over them like they're nothing. Especially having to do with drugs. I hate that because they feel like people who are addicts don't deserve justice. We're like, well, where was she? What was the, did anybody do save her? Nobody was telling us anything.

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She got caught. And one of the girls in there who called me after she died and explained, I'd never met this girl before, she told me like, Christy, I knew something wasn't right. Like her lips were purple and they sent her out of there. They bought her a lift and they sent her to, from a rehab to a detox center. And they bought it for her and put her in that car

with her lips blue and everything. She died in the car on the way to a new place. Oh my gosh. In a lift. In the lift driver, I even tried to like get in contact with my mom. Couldn't find this person on Facebook. She couldn't find him. Like just to ask what happened. I found the lift driver on TikTok and he doesn't speak English, but he followed me back and messaged me and it just, I mean, there wasn't much he could tell me clearly, but. Oh yeah, because he didn't speak English. Yeah. But still, just like I went on detective shit.

Like I was able to find out so much stuff and like get into all her iClouds and literally like detective this shit. Because nobody helped us, literally no one. That's a good sister though. Yeah. I'm sorry that happened to you. Like I'm sorry that happened to your family. That's just all around hurtful.

And I'm just glad that now you're using your platform for awareness Yeah, start talking about that. So what happens after her death and you Coming back to Nashville. How's Christy feeling? I'm okay. I Don't know. I guess I just try and be normal. I really didn't, like I was doing social media before she passed away. So it's not like I was trying to like use that to build.

No, not at all. No, I'm just saying like that's not why, whatever. Like, so people, I was vlogging that day because I do daily vlogs. Were you vlogging on like YouTube or were you still doing TikTok? Well, both. But this was, I just set my camera up the day

of my first day of my nanny job and I do my daily vlog. So I vlogged me that morning, waking up, and I wasn't expecting that to happen. So people were like, you know, whenever I first posted a video of the day, whatever, people were like, who like records themselves doing this? And I was like, I didn't know I was gonna get that phone call.

I recorded myself because I do every day. I love that though, that's your real life. Yeah, and you see how I'm literally happy, like I moved into a new city. It's my first Friday night. It was the first weekend I ever had. I was like, am I going to go out with new friends? Like, what am I going to do? And then literally my whole entire world flipped over just like that. And it's honestly, people don't realize it's fucking therapeutic. Yeah. I was going through this journey with my mom. I've logged pretty much all of it, you know, that I could put

on the Tik Tok and people would be like, why are you vlogging your mom in this vulnerable state? First of all, my mom loved it and wanted to be on it. And secondly, it was me trying to not only help people, but to help myself and processing all of the fucking emotions that I was going through. I don't even care if no one watches it or listens. Like, I want it for my timestamp, my fucking collection of memories. Yeah. And my sister hated being on camera, like didn't ever let me,

because I always was vlogging on YouTube and stuff, didn't barely ever let me put her in anything, just because she was so self-conscious about the way she looked and stuff like that. And she just hated social media. We were total opposites in that aspect. And there's some vlogs and some clips and little things I have of her.

And I'm just so thankful that I was annoying and it would cause fights of me pulling the camera out and her be like, put that down or I'm gonna leave. Like I swear to God, if you're recording right now. Just be able to hear her voice. Yeah, and I'm so glad I have all those clips and that I was annoying because now that's all I have left. So that's why I literally record everything

at all times of what I'm doing. And even people that have like shit on what I've done or what I do in the past, they're all like, that's really cool that you made that video. Like I recorded my whole senior year of high school and carried my camera around to parties and stuff. And at the end of the year- Wow, that's awesome.

Yeah, I always liked to go with the camera. Were you doing this for, you weren't doing it for TikTok, it was for YouTube? No, TikTok wasn't out there. I was just always doing, so like I did Vines, I did social media. I don't ever remember not like recording myself in my life. Like even when I had just like, I did social media. I don't ever remember not recording myself in my life. Even when I had just on MySpace.

That's how far, like Xanga, do you know what Xanga is? Do you remember Xanga? I was never on it. I always did. See, I'm always late to the fucking party. Ask her, it took me forever to get on TikTok, but once I figured that motherfucker out, here I am. That's how I am with social media

Like I love it, but it's like I I think it's the Aquarius in me. I just don't ever jump on every trend Yeah, I wait to see like what it's gonna do and then if I can monetize off of it. I will yeah So I never got into the Zynga or whatever. Yeah, was it Zynga? What was Zynga? I don't know. I was like way too young to be on it though. Like I just, I shouldn't have been on there. I love that though, that you've always had that vlogger mentality though. Always. I was just determined.

Was your break on YouTube or did you, your following blow up whenever you got on TikTok? It was TikTok, but on YouTube. TikTok's life changing. It is. But on YouTube, I was like posting for years and it wasn't growing. I grew a lot on Vine, but on YouTube I was like posting for years and it wasn't growing I grew a lot on vine But then vine died

Thanks, but I never it's crazy cuz vine like blew the fuck up I love and was insane and then as fast as it came it was gone Yeah, and I still don't really know why it was gone. Yeah me either I thought it was so weird cuz I was on vine too But I never I got on vine very late and then fucking as soon as I got on there, it fucking went to shit. So I was like god. All right Well, you scared it away back to Facebook, you know, whatever I was doing. Um, so You know your cut you came back here You are moving on and picking up the pieces of your life and tick tock starts blowing up

What is what paint that picture for me of when tick tock starts blowing up. Paint that picture for me of when TikTok starts blowing up for you. Well, it actually blew up kind of before I moved to Nashville. Okay, cool. So I'd say like in 2019 and... God, you were on it. You were like one of the first people on it. Early, like when I was like the oldest person on it.

Like, it was only little kids and it was when it was just dancing and I used to be a dancer. So that's all, I was just a dancing page. I just danced. And I think that's so funny to think about now, but I loved that. And then-

That's why I wouldn't get on TikTok. Yeah. I was like, motherfucker, I'm 40 years old. I'm not getting on TikTok. And now people still think it's like that. And I'm like, no, no, no, now it's not like that. No, it's completely different. Yeah.

But I loved, I was like a dancing app. Oh my God, I'm on it. So I was doing that. And then I got banned. And this was, you know, before, when I was complaining about getting banned on TikTok, you know, my friends are on it. So I was doing that and then I got banned. And this was before when I was complaining about getting banned on TikTok, my friends are like, why do you even have that app? That's literally a little kid app.

And this was like even before COVID. And then COVID happened and everybody got the app. And then I, but I was still the only person from like my town or whatever that had TikTok. So people knew I had grown a following on the second account. And then as soon as COVID, everybody started getting it, my second account got banned.

And I was just so annoyed because now everyone has it and now I finally built a following. Yeah, and so that's why I was like- I got banned a few times too. It's so dumb. And I was like, I'm just gonna give up on this and I wasn't gonna make another one, but it's what I like to do.

So I made a third account and I just made my username queen of getting banned. And I think that's so dumb. I didn't put any thought into it, but it's what I like to do. So I made a third account, and I just made my username, Queen of Getting Banned. And I think that's so dumb. I didn't put any thought into it. And then, of course, that account blew up. And now it's like, I'm stuck with that username. If I change it, I just, I mean, you're able to change it. But I feel like it's just who I am now.

Yeah, you can't. Once you start branding yourself, you have to keep that. And I made it as a joke. So that's why I just don't have this connection to it. I see a lot of other people who have kind of bit off the name, too. Yeah. You started a trend with that.

And it actually got my attention, too, whenever I first stumbled upon you. I was like, Queen, I'm getting banned. Like, why is she getting banned? You know? Yeah. So I like went on your page and stuff. And I was like, oh, she's cute.

And I haven't been banned in like a while. So people are like, what raunchy shit do you do? And I'm like, it's not bad. I just used to dance and get banned. Like, literally, that's it. I literally do nothing. I breathe and exist on that app. And I thought I could get banned. I've been banned that's it. I literally do nothing. I breathe and exist on that app, and I fucking get banned. I've been banned on-

I have account warnings on both. Oh, me too. My main account, I think we're at what, 2.7 now? I've been banned three times. Like, completely taken away? On that same account, yes. I haven't gotten banned on my backup account yet, and we just hit a million over there, but yeah.

Yeah, I have a backup or spam account too, but- Yeah, you just put whatever on there. Yeah. Better views than my fucking main account. People like I put hours into my vlogs and stuff. And then my backup one is just me like literally talking on the toilet. Same. So stupid. And people are like, we like this better. Yeah. Why? No, it's crazy. The same fucking shit happens to me. So what has TikTok done for your life? Like as far as changing it? You don't have to obviously be a bartender. No and I'm glad because now I'm so like I just

can't even imagine doing that um because it's a lot of socializing literally like my job when I was bartending was to like talk to people and now I do cocktails. I don't even know how I did that for that long. Yeah. I don't I hate talking to people. Besides having one-on-one conversations like those, being in a fucking bar now, I'm sober. Are you sober? Or do you drink? I drink. Yeah.

What are you drinking right now? This is an Elani Seltzer. Oh, gotcha. They sent it to me. No, I love it. That's awesome. I don't drink alone. I only drink when I go out.

And I only go out with my boyfriend. I don't ever go out other than that. Aw, are you in love? Yes, I am. I think I saw a video that popped up on my FYP and you said that you guys are in a long distance relationship. Yeah, so Walt's been my best friend since high school.

Walt? I love Walt. That is awesome. You look like you would be with a Walt. What? No, it just fits the aesthetic, I think. No, I always roast him for his name. I love it.

But he's like literally this, he's happy to be alive. He's happy, I don't know, he has no mental illness and no, who doesn't have family drama, family trauma or fucked up, like nothing. And I know that everyone has secrets, but he literally is clean, has nothing.

And it's so weird to me, and we're polar opposites, but it works. We were best friends since we were in middle school when I was new to my high school, or well, I moved to middle school. And we were just friends. I dated someone else for seven years and he was still my best friend.

And then after my sister passed away, we started dating because I was dating someone else. And just the way he was there at my house, just as my friend more than like my actual boyfriend was I just started looking at him in a different light and like I've always loved him but like I I just I don't know I fell in love with him and I I don't know if it was like my sister bringing us together or what but we yeah I don't know we were friends first but now we're dating I love that so where does Walt live he

lives our parents houses are like five minutes away. Okay, gotcha. So he's from Georgia also. Yeah, but he just interviewed last week for jobs here in Nashville. So excited. Yay, are you guys ready to take that next step and like live together?

Yeah, I've always said like, I want babies. I wanna get married and like stuff like that. Yeah. But now that I like hear it, I'm like, ew, no way. Yeah. No. Not yet. You're like, no, let's wait. Give me 10 more years, please. I love that, but you never know when you guys move in,

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Yeah, no, I just got a pet cat and I can't. Soy sauce, right? Yes, I can't. One of my followers named her. I love the name. I think that's awesome. I did see you hanging out with our dear sweet friend, Dimps.

How was that? Yes. Isn't she fucking hilarious? She's insane. But in a good way, she's the same as she is online. Oh, no, definitely. She is just a little drop of golden sun. I love it.

Everybody has this whole community that just like, she hates her. And I had no- Do you have one of those? No, I didn't even know what it was. I just learned like this year, a few months ago, and people were so upset at me for hanging out with her, which I think is like- Oh, they were talking about trying to cancel me for having her on the podcast and I was just like and I just still

Can't figure out why? She's just a normal person these people are sick and it's like I tell everybody I won't even say the websites name on my podcast I was I ever get no it will Because I don't ever give them any clout It's literally a place of people who don't belong anywhere so they fucking have they just see then swim in toxicity and they literally just have found their beehive of Just toxic bullshit of just tearing people down and it's just disgusting. It's literally this I don't even go on at that website

I can't crazy because none of that hate reaches me unless I go and I look for it. That's how not powerful that site is. It's literally a bunch of people that are just bound to that one place because nobody wants to deal with their fucking bullshit. But it's like, they're pretty scary. A lot of them have really came after a lot of creators and it's just sad.

Why is it so personal to them? I don't know, and I don't know how it's legal. I don't know and it's just sad. Why is it so personal to them? I don't know and I don't know how it's legal. Yeah. I don't know how it's legal or how that site is even available to be up. I think it's gonna take them really hurting somebody before they'll even look at that website to get it taken down.

Yeah, because it's- Unfortunately. I haven't even had that bad stuff that I saw about me, but one little thing like drove me into, because you know TikTok kind of like doesn't people can be mean But it kind of limits out. Yeah, that people say yeah, so I don't really get that much hate and hate that I do I live in my nice little pink bubble. I don't laugh with it I'm like like people please roast me because I feel that it's like a good like, you know, yeah, you're right

Whatever. It's nothing like actually deep and on that thing Like I saw it because people were emailing me my business email like oh no It's all of me too And they're like hey like I love you And I just want you to know that people are saying this and like sent me the link and I was like what? And then it's like they know everything Everything and or think they do right my family and stuff and that's the scary thing That's the scary thing is that these people can say whatever they want and it's solid. And if you try to defend yourself against them, then you're the bad person.

You're the bully. Like you're supposed to let these people just punk you. Like I don't care the way I have every time I do a podcast drop or I announce who's coming, I do it just to stir it up because literally their hate gets me so many views and downloads that it's like, I just use it to monetize off of them. Like keep talking about me, baby. You know, like, I don't care what you say about me. The more shit you talk about me,

the more it's gonna make people curious. So bring it on. I luckily don't have a page yet. I do not want a page. So if any of you fucking shit bags are listening, I don't want one, okay? But I mean, yeah. I'm literally gonna cry.

But I mean, if you guys do make one, just know I'm still gonna make money off of it. Even more money than I already have. Get my name out there. Yeah, exactly. So what can we expect from you for the next year? Like going into this brand new year, you know, 2023, what do you have any goals that you want to reach?

Anything exciting? Um, I don't know. She's like, bitch, I'm taking it day by day. Leave me alone. Yeah, I don't know. I just this is all so cool to me. It's what I've always wanted to do. And like, even when it was like weird that I made YouTube videos and like no one did,

like I never stopped. It just became the thing where like, I was the girl that carried the camera. I never, that was just my thing. That was like my comfort thing. I loved editing videos and then I started doing weddings. And then I started doing, you know, sports videos. And I never.

Do you think maybe because you were so socially awkward that having that camera in between you and other people. I love telling stories through my camera. sports videos and I never do you think maybe because you were so socially awkward that Having that camera in between you and other people. I love telling stories through my camera I never spoke about my sister's addiction or her story ever when she was alive But when I was in like eighth grade was the first time I did my project on her It was when she was in a rehab and I made like a whole video and I did a voiceover to it It was an eighth grade and my language arts project and I shared her story and I wrote like a letter to her, like a letter to my sister. And it was like that and I presented it to the class.

And then I would just start doing like visual stuff and I just loved that. And I loved even for like birthdays, just making montages and I cinematic, I would take out a loan to get a camera and I would just, I just love telling stories through video and I love video creation and stuff. Well, you're amazing at it.

Well, thank you, but then I would do weddings and stuff and I realized like, this is, I wanna be in the camera. Yeah, you're like, I'm the star bitch, okay. I love being in the camera, but I love editing and stuff like that too. But that's why I was like, I'm just gonna keep doing YouTube and try this. And that's why when TikTok went off, it was like the best thing that could ever happen to me because

I got to do a little bit of both. Like I could edit and make cinematic shit, but I could also just talk and be myself because I am a personnel or whatever. But also I like to do the other cool vlogs and stuff like that. Yeah. No, I love it. I love your content. It's always fucking entertaining. Thanks. So I think you definitely are onto. I love your content. It's always fucking entertaining. Thanks. So I think you definitely are onto something and you've found your niche and you have your hardcore, you know, cult fan base. I think all of us TikTokers have like a cult fan base that

loves just us. And like. It's still shocking to me. It's so cute. Isn't it amazing? They will literally go to war for me. So much love. I don't have to do anything.

But if I get one hate comment, I would just pin it. And I don't say anything. And they're like. Why did they take the pin away? I don't know. I thought it was just my phone. No. I don't have to do anything, but if I get one hate comment, I would just pin it, and I don't say anything. Why did they take the pin away? I don't know. I thought it was just my phone. No, they did it to me too, because I used to do the pin of shame too.

Yeah, and I just let everyone else eat them. That's why now I just respond to hate with positive messages, and then I just let everybody else fucking handle the person. Because the love outweighs the hate, no it's always there's always going to be more people who love you than don't. And the people who don't like you always end up probably fucking loving you and they're your number one fans because

they watch everything you fucking do. Yeah. So it's like either way it's like motherfucker. You love me. You just want to hug. Come here. Yeah. Like hug a hater like our t-shirt that we had. So Walt's moving in. You're just going to kick it next year. You don't have any plans. You're just like fuck it I'm just gonna fucking keep riding this wave I just want to keep I guess growing like I just never even when I didn't have views and stuff and never you know

Really grew a platform before I was doing this full-time I never stopped doing it right like when people ask me for advice stuff I'm like I just in my head even though I wasn't seeing any growth and I was just doing YouTube or whatever, and even when Vine went away, I never stopped doing it. Even if I was posting Facebook videos or whatever and no one was watching and people talk,

I never stopped because in my head, I wasn't going to let myself, this was the only career path I wanted to do. And even though no one around me, I didn't know anyone personally who was an influencer or did any of that, I wasn't going to do anything else. I was so determined, even if I was bartending

and vlogging myself bartending. You manifested. I wasn't gonna stop. I was only gonna do that. And so I'm still, yes, I'm finally doing it full time, but I don't think I'm ever gonna stop wanting to grow. I'm very hungry at wanting to do more and just be bigger and bigger and whatever that is.

Yeah, as far as your brand goes, the sky's the limit. You can do whatever you want. Yeah. Unless I get banned again. But it doesn't matter. You'll come back. I know they always find don't speak it into the earth. You just return to sender. You're not going to get banned again. Well, I'm so happy that you came on the podcast and I can't wait to have you back.

Why don't you tell people where they can find you? Name all your socials. Okay. You can find what about only fans? You got an only fan? No, I don't. Damn it. I was hoping to see that hootenanny. Is that my tootie? My cookie? Yes. Yes. I've never been on OnlyFans. Really? Yes. Oh, well, I have for years. Am I missing out a lot? I mean, we'll talk about it whenever we get off. My dad is just so sweet and I just don't want somebody like going up to okay No, I didn't mean like that. I don't want somebody going to him at work and being like I saw your daughter on blah blah blah

Oh god. Yeah, I mean don't do it if if you have a great I see I don't have a good family So I've got I'm doing fatherless activities because I have a terrible fucking family So if you have a good family and you I didn't mean it like that. No, I feel like no Listen, no, I'm always calling my just picture. Now I feel like, no, no, no, listen. No, I'm always calling myself. I just picture my dad, my sweet, like curiosity, like scrolling and be like, Oh my God. No, but it's definitely a bag you could get mama for sure. Cause I'm sure people would definitely see you. Stop tempting me.

I know. I'm the devil. I'm the devil on your shoulder right now. Um, why don't you go ahead and shout out your social so people can find you. Okay, my TikTok is, do I look at the camera? Or am I looking at you? You're looking everywhere.

Okay. We never know where anything is. Oh, your camera's right there. Yeah, right here. My TikTok is Queen of Getting Banned. And then my Instagram is Christy Howard and my YouTube is Christy Howard. And then I have spicy Christy.

I also have merch I just dropped. My social security number is We need to know what your blood type is all that jazz. I don't know it, but I want to know it Well, thank you for coming on. I really appreciate you being here. Thanks for having me Yeah, can't wait to have you back and thank you guys for tuning in to another episode of dumb blonde I will see you guys next week. Bye. I love that. I feel like that was painless, right? My sweet dear. I know we lost it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Stop, I feel bad. I didn't mean like that. No, no, no. I think that's the best response ever. You know, Mimi and I talk about this all the time. When we first started Dun Blon, it was just an idea. We had no clue what we were doing,

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