the algorithm ruins creativity: why everything online looks the same

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  • Опубликовано: 26 окт 2024

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  • @afrobutterfly
    @afrobutterfly 5 месяцев назад +33

    I got fatigued from content creation and haven’t found the motivation to resume AT ALL because i know i don't want to keep up the grueling pace anymore.
    As a creative person, this decreases my drive greatly 😢😢😢

    • @AleciaRenece
      @AleciaRenece  5 месяцев назад +13

      🫂🫂🫂🥺💛🌻 I completely understand this. I'm sending you so much love. It really makes me sad because so many people have such beauty to share with the world, and these platforms shoot themselves in the feet by exhausting and discouraging artists who wanna share.
      And you're absolutely right. The pace and pressure to keep up on social media is absolutely violent. It destroys confidence and drains energy.
      People are nature, and nature goes slow. We are not machines.
      🫂🫂🫂💛💛💛

    • @364anw
      @364anw 5 месяцев назад

      My feelings exactly

    • @shosho4real
      @shosho4real 5 месяцев назад +1

      It's so painful when you put in so much work into your art(videos,songs, books) and nobody watches, patronizes you or cares.

  • @MsFadir
    @MsFadir 5 месяцев назад +34

    This ➡️ "Computers cannot compute nuance" 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾

    • @AleciaRenece
      @AleciaRenece  5 месяцев назад +4

      ‼️‼️‼️💛💛💛

    • @arnystalking.3849
      @arnystalking.3849 5 месяцев назад +1

      Yet.... have you heard about AI ?

    • @MsFadir
      @MsFadir 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@arnystalking.3849 No, not yet.

    • @yolondawilliams5078
      @yolondawilliams5078 5 месяцев назад

      ​​@@arnystalking.3849Computers will never be equivalent to the human brain and neither will AI.

  • @CamJames
    @CamJames 5 месяцев назад +14

    despite my moderate success on here, I have days where i wake up and don't wanna write, shoot, or edit. i don't really have a choice though if i want to maintain it. plantation 100%.

    • @nebulasinthesky
      @nebulasinthesky 5 месяцев назад +1

      thanks for sharing this! i love your vids, so inspiring to the collective ❤

  • @barbarabuford5795
    @barbarabuford5795 5 месяцев назад +20

    'Wow, it's like they've just created another Plantation for Us'! Phenomenal Words! YES, Be Yourself, Break 'FREE'! 👍♥️👏

  • @sophieramati
    @sophieramati 5 месяцев назад +26

    You are my new favorite channel

    • @AleciaRenece
      @AleciaRenece  5 месяцев назад +4

      Awwwwww 🥹🫂🥰 I am HONORED. Thank you so much for being here.

    • @chickaliciousnyc
      @chickaliciousnyc 5 месяцев назад +1

      I second that emotion! 🩷🙏🏾🩷

    • @Keyboardmom
      @Keyboardmom 2 месяца назад

      Same!

  • @MsFadir
    @MsFadir 5 месяцев назад +15

    I've been thinking about ads and RUclips. Like, why accounts that are not monetized have ads on their videos...

    • @AleciaRenece
      @AleciaRenece  5 месяцев назад +7

      It's awful. These platforms are benefiting off of people's labor, genius and work. It's literally exploiting people without paying them. It's gross. 😮‍💨💔

  • @justzee1574
    @justzee1574 5 месяцев назад +9

    Yea, I remember social media was for the everyday person. Now mainstream media and celebrities are competing with content creators

  • @barbarabuford5795
    @barbarabuford5795 5 месяцев назад +14

    WOW, I never thought they could penalize you if you stop, take a break, but you are so right! They will say things like, This was recommended for you, we think you will like it, meaning, They can control suggesting you to others, WOW!

    • @AleciaRenece
      @AleciaRenece  5 месяцев назад +6

      Yeees! These platforms will stop suggesting your stuff if it doesn't get "enough views" or if you stop uploading for a while. The content creation cycle goes so quickly and we burn right through it. 😮‍💨💛

    • @barbarabuford5795
      @barbarabuford5795 5 месяцев назад +2

      Interesting. It's almost like the world is controlled, ..because the content IS!

  • @barbarabuford5795
    @barbarabuford5795 5 месяцев назад +10

    'Feel the fear and Do It Anyway'! What makes You Happy? STOP Appeasing! I LOVE THIS! 💞

    • @AleciaRenece
      @AleciaRenece  5 месяцев назад +3

      Yeeeeeeeeeees! That feels so freeeee 🥰🫂💛🌻🌺

  • @nakiatexas10
    @nakiatexas10 5 месяцев назад +27

    Calling RUclips a plantation is mind blowing AND accurate.

  • @LovelyDayOneDay
    @LovelyDayOneDay 5 месяцев назад +10

    Your channel is medicine. Much love. ❤

  • @wildflower8028
    @wildflower8028 5 месяцев назад +8

    I agree! I’m so tired of trying to be “perfect” in the workplace etc. It’s so draining and I’m looking forward to fail as well! I always look for to your videos. Thank you so much! ❤

    • @AleciaRenece
      @AleciaRenece  5 месяцев назад

      Yeeeeeeeeeees! Perfectionism EXHAUSTING. 😮‍💨😩💛🌺🫂 Awwwww! 🥹 I'm so blessed by this comment 🫂🫂🫂 Thank you so much for blessing me. Much love and joy to you!!! ☺️💛💛💛

  • @barbarabuford5795
    @barbarabuford5795 5 месяцев назад +5

    Girl, your Brain is SO On Point! I enjoy how you break things down in lay terms! You make it understandable and is able to send the verbage out there, (saying things I just can not grasp to say), placing it into the perspective context of Iconic, Thought- Provoking Words. THX, 'YOU Go Girl'! 👍♥️👏

  • @funkyredhead1
    @funkyredhead1 5 месяцев назад +3

    💯💯💯💯‼️🥴😥. At the end of the day we have to BE OURSELVES, not get sucked in and BEAT the algorithm. So, so sad.

  • @sheresefrancis7691
    @sheresefrancis7691 5 месяцев назад +2

    Thank you for this! It's so resonate with a workshop I'm leading tonight called Coding Your Cosmos, exploring creative writing and creative practices and politics of the current digital landscape. I will share the video with the attendees.❤

  • @TrangPakbaby
    @TrangPakbaby 5 месяцев назад +6

    You have SUCH a beautiful voice. I could listen to you read the phone book 😂😂❤

  • @Forrrdppl
    @Forrrdppl 5 месяцев назад +2

    Fellow weirdo here! I understood DEEPLY everything you said. I was shocked multiple times during this video when you’d say things I’ve literally said, thought, or written in the past! Just goes to show our shared consciousness✨ it brings me great joy that you are who you are. Thank you for existing 💛

  • @prhippie9878
    @prhippie9878 5 месяцев назад +1

    I’ve watched so many of your videos and I love your mindset. Your words are raw, authentic deeply relatable, comforting and inspiring.

  • @SharonMalonza
    @SharonMalonza 5 месяцев назад

    Whew A WORD. Perfectly articulated and much needed. "Social media is the new plantation" woah. You have dropped so many gems. Thank you Alecia for allowing us to see you, so that we can also allow ourselves to be seen.

  • @leslynmoore
    @leslynmoore 5 месяцев назад +2

    WOW!!!! this video though!!! admittedly I have no words this time around. This is such a relatable topic and issue, and I love that you put this out for us. Thank you. Girl at some point, I'm gonna send you a video!!.

  • @CamJames
    @CamJames 5 месяцев назад +4

    social media has definitely thinned the veil. it has benefits and costs that won't be fully understood for decades. I work for an ad agency and create content professionally (and I'm a musician/camera-human like you), so I see both sides of the capitalist system. my company pays creators for ads, and i get paid by those same companies to make videos. seeing people attach dollar amounts to view counts is wild from this side, and it's just another day at the office on the day job side.
    your thought about editing out the imperfections is a very salient one. I have to do it for my scripted series on here but it's exhausting. I know for a fact that it results in more views and engagement, but at what cost? i just wanna talk sometimes.
    we're 100% being pimped out before monetization. it's highly unfair. the 45% cut is not ok either but we tolerate it. you're on the money and these are the reasons why we burn out.

  • @kadlacdixon-thedrawmylifep3293
    @kadlacdixon-thedrawmylifep3293 5 месяцев назад +1

    6:19 I hit 1000 subs only once YT shorts started competing with TikTok but it's so hard now to get watch hours because those that find you through shorts tend to not watch your longer than a minute videos, and they don't even show your content to your own subscribers anymore making it almost impossible...

  • @kadlacdixon-thedrawmylifep3293
    @kadlacdixon-thedrawmylifep3293 5 месяцев назад +1

    17:32 I literally thought that, I had to leave Facebook because it is even more impossible than RUclips to make it, I thought my content had to be garbage because no matter what I do I couldn't get it to grow until I took the same content from RUclips over to TikTok and many people engaged with it, the same exact videos...
    But I do feel like more and more TikTok is trying to figure out an algorithm too that eventually will be like all the other platforms...

  • @lisambartonllc
    @lisambartonllc 5 месяцев назад +2

    Needed this, Keep speaking your words to power, They are needed and greatly appreciated! ❤

  • @Seasaltbreeze
    @Seasaltbreeze 5 месяцев назад

    I get so much heart lift from your talks. Thank you for sharing this particular talk!

  • @abimbolaiyun8575
    @abimbolaiyun8575 5 месяцев назад +2

    Thank you for sharing this with us ❤

  • @Antonio_Todd
    @Antonio_Todd 5 месяцев назад

    Keep doing your thing Alecia, you’re killing it fr! Just subscribed last week. Your content is sooo relatable lol

  • @ebonysportal
    @ebonysportal 5 месяцев назад +1

    This video brought me to TEARS! Beautifully said. Thanks for sharing

  • @TheFifthWorld22
    @TheFifthWorld22 5 месяцев назад +3

    I'm a witness to the oppression of Saturn I love everything you say
    thank you
    It's funny because we are on the same Natural Human Algorithm- The Truth Algorithm- there was many synchronicities in this video I just told a friend (before I watched), that I'm trying to carve a new life where I am not rigid haha
    We are forming the natural human Matrix again
    Ma matrix
    You help me do my work sending you love and peace

  • @shirlebryant9427
    @shirlebryant9427 5 месяцев назад +4

    Every day is fantastic, but we had storm on the lakes of the Ozarks...... houseboat 😂😂66 degrees clouds

    • @AleciaRenece
      @AleciaRenece  5 месяцев назад +3

      I'm glad you're enjoying yourself. 😊🌺🌻

  • @Pondering2b
    @Pondering2b 5 месяцев назад +1

    "I've had enough" girl sammmeeee😢

  • @yolondawilliams5078
    @yolondawilliams5078 5 месяцев назад

    You are so on point in this video. We are definitely being pimped out by social media and I'm starting to think that was the point all along. Why else would they create these platforms.I know this is going to sound crazy but another issue I have with social media is that when people post their creativity and artwork on any of these social media platforms, it's forever there in the internet universe. Even if you were to delete those images, we all know that it's never really deleted. So who has control of those images and what are they doing with them. I believe it's being stolen and used by the wealthy. I saw a young lady's youtube video a couple of months ago where she designed her own crochet patterns and ended up seeing her creations on a big fashion designers website, but she's just a small youtube creator, what can she do. And don't get me started on the Kardashians, who have blantantly stolen clothing designs from lesser known fashion designers. This really angers me the most. You know that people are just trying to escape the rat race of needing to have these mundane jobs that aren't fulfilling nor profitable, only to be used and exploited. It's infuriating! Plantation indeed!

  • @kokog8013
    @kokog8013 3 месяца назад

    Thanks for sharing this insightful video, Alecia. It's good to know other people are thinking the same thing that I'm thinking. Now I know I'm not crazy to see things the way they are. Why do we need to rush in life and compete?

  • @amoraslucha
    @amoraslucha 5 месяцев назад +1

    ufff what you say around 8:00 in response to folks saying "it is what it is" and YT taking half of super chat $ (which i did not know and is WILD) - "is it?" absolutely agree with you!!!
    i know that's more of a tangent to your original topic but it's something i have so many feelings/thoughts/ideas about xD. there are alternate social media platforms that explore more what it is for people to have a bigger say + investment in how social media is managed (like mastodon) - it is an approach, one way we could do things and there is yet so much more to explore!!
    the internet started out so much more different from what it is now, the way capitalism has taken over and extracts from us / from life like it only knows how is something we need to be more actively aware of, reject it, find and create alternatives rather than be complacent "it is what it is" about it!!!

    • @amoraslucha
      @amoraslucha 5 месяцев назад

      so much more of what you say are things i've been sitting with and doubting whether to put it out there cause i doubt myself a lot so listening to you is very affirming. ty! i hope you have other aritsts on your channel, i'd love to hear you have convos with other folks

  • @MsFadir
    @MsFadir 5 месяцев назад +5

    Oh, I didn't know you're on Spotify! What's your profile? 🥳

    • @MsFadir
      @MsFadir 5 месяцев назад +1

      Found it!

    • @AleciaRenece
      @AleciaRenece  5 месяцев назад +4

      I aaaaaam! Awwwww! 🥰🥹💛🌺🫂 Thank you so much for even looking me up. It means a lot to me. And thank you for asking. I didn't even consider folks may look for me. 😅💛🫂
      For those who may also be curious. Here's the link to my Spotify 💛: open.spotify.com/artist/2WO0BqhWzFinzIKPv1Cwvd?si=5kgfIXK8TAm1mGlMT0EtzA

    • @chickaliciousnyc
      @chickaliciousnyc 5 месяцев назад +1

      💜🩷💜

  • @abimbolaiyun8575
    @abimbolaiyun8575 5 месяцев назад

    This is hitting and hitting well on so many levels ❤thank you

  • @homeofwren
    @homeofwren 5 месяцев назад +4

    I’m an artist as well. And this is so timely. Art is a slow process…it’s an experience. The fast consumption of art…as content…feels a bit…unsatisfying at times.
    Plus the pace as which creation happens is much slower than an algorithm. So many thoughts here.
    It’s a new plantation out here sis…
    Social media flattens the process for the artist and the viewer of the art.
    Girl I have so much to say and this comment box ain’t big enough…🤎

  • @Seasaltbreeze
    @Seasaltbreeze 5 месяцев назад

    Still People pleasing ..,via the algorithm. I hear that. Thank you.

  • @kadlacdixon-thedrawmylifep3293
    @kadlacdixon-thedrawmylifep3293 5 месяцев назад

    1:22 Myspace too before they figured out the algorithm...

  • @callmeclove
    @callmeclove 5 месяцев назад +1

    fuck the algorithm n all that good stuff but thanks algorithm for bringing me here

  • @kadlacdixon-thedrawmylifep3293
    @kadlacdixon-thedrawmylifep3293 5 месяцев назад

    25:12 Yes!!! that is what I use my RUclips for now, just like a video diary of where I am now and maybe 🤔 one day it will be something more but I'm not expecting that no more...

  • @domloveart
    @domloveart 2 месяца назад

    And what's even worse is everything is so rushed! As an animator, I need at least a week to produce a 30 sec animation of decent quality :/ too many times my content has been overlooked because of this, I can't post quality content consistently AND rapidly unless I never sleep lol

  • @onecleverpig
    @onecleverpig 5 месяцев назад

    I cant remember how i found this video, but im so glad i did! You have such great insights and present them eloquently.
    I saw one of those randomass community posts on my feed from a large channel i dont follow and it was a quiz asking "what is the correct way to edit videos?"
    And it just set me off. Like isnt this supposed to be art? Arent my videos supposed to be an expression of my personality? How could there be a right way and wrong way to do this? However i choose to make and edit my videos is the correct way.
    But you nailed it - its so easy to fall into a pattern of pleasing our robot overlords because thats what they deem "successful".
    Im getting rambley, but really appreciate this video. Watched the whole thing. Hope you get that $0.0004 and i hope to live in a world where we all give each other high fives after a clean wipe

  • @kadlacdixon-thedrawmylifep3293
    @kadlacdixon-thedrawmylifep3293 5 месяцев назад

    6:19 Also because the viewers don't realize how much time working on content takes, many don't appreciate it for what it is similar to what you were explaining about your photography...

  • @kadlacdixon-thedrawmylifep3293
    @kadlacdixon-thedrawmylifep3293 5 месяцев назад

    6:19 like two years ago I used to edit everything and I did get more views like 70 to 100, but one video could take 3 days to a week to finish editing and still not bring in enough views to get paid, making all that work for nothing, so my last few years i literally record and upload, that's how TikTok is you could just pull out your camera and just be you for a few minutes and get way more views than you could ever on RUclips...

  • @kadlacdixon-thedrawmylifep3293
    @kadlacdixon-thedrawmylifep3293 5 месяцев назад

    6:19 I'm not monetized and at this point I'm thinking I never will be because everytime I reach a bar, they up it...
    I've been on RUclips since it started in 2008, and my current channel since 2013, posting daily since 2020 shut down, so I've given RUclips a whole lot of free content and haven't gotten the first cent back...

  • @kadlacdixon-thedrawmylifep3293
    @kadlacdixon-thedrawmylifep3293 5 месяцев назад

    18:15 I know it doesn't mean much in the sceme of things, but I love your content and you are so inspirational...

  • @shosho4real
    @shosho4real 5 месяцев назад

    Alecia your vulnerability is freeing up so many. You're our Harriet Tubman of RUclips

  • @MommihasSol
    @MommihasSol 5 месяцев назад

    You are appreciated Alecia. Thank you for being.

  • @itskwenaa
    @itskwenaa 5 месяцев назад

    You’re preaching 👏🏾👏🏾

  • @kadlacdixon-thedrawmylifep3293
    @kadlacdixon-thedrawmylifep3293 5 месяцев назад

    11:00 and as a artist it's harder, but what other options is there for an artist...

  • @Seasaltbreeze
    @Seasaltbreeze 5 месяцев назад

    Your brain works faster than mine. I love it. I’m catching up…. Actors play a role, some get/ got too caught up in their role and have/had a hard timee undressing from the role and becoming themselves again after “that’s a wrap.” Now social media says, “be yourself. Be your authentic self.” The quiet part is, “we’re happy to monetize your authentic self and find an audience for you.” And now artists may have a hard time knowing who their authentic self is because they don’t have a crew saying, “th@ts a wrap.” Their stage is their home and they’re always on stage and they’re supposed to “act” like their authentic selves multiple times a week to stay relevant.

  • @LizNeptune
    @LizNeptune 4 месяца назад

    I got a $50 super thanks comment the other day and RUclips took roughly 52% of it!

  • @afrobutterfly
    @afrobutterfly 5 месяцев назад +3

    Also, can i get a vocal mix of BBLDRIZZY 😂

    • @AleciaRenece
      @AleciaRenece  5 месяцев назад +2

      Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I am cracking UUUUUP!!! 😂😂😂💛🫂🌻🌺 You're amazing. I have to say... 👀 That production is SO well done. It's actually really pretty. 😅😂💛💛💛

  • @abimbolaiyun8575
    @abimbolaiyun8575 5 месяцев назад +1

    If I choose to show up I don’t want to edit myself. Period 🎉. I love the way you love yourself.

  • @sixtyblackmystictraveler
    @sixtyblackmystictraveler 5 месяцев назад +1

    Six ads 30:41 so far. My wish is that you are making some of this money they are making off your creativity. And it’s spot on with your conversation.
    Yesterday I found myself thinking that I cry so often in my videos that it must be a turn off to people. That is the voice of male patriarchy within me and society where having emotions other than anger or rage is supposed to be shameful. I cry easily now because my heart is more accessible to feel than I ever was able to give myself permission. I was conditioned to feel shame at crying in front of someone, not able to “control” my emotions so who I am now has had to evolve many times over.
    And yes once they discovered how to make MORE and MORE money from other people’s labor (Amazon taught them a lot) AND pay all concerned the minimum possible we got into another slave labor situation. I was qualified for monetization and then RUclips changed the rules of the game. I stick with what is authentically me and what I authentically want to share. If there’s money in that (there hasn’t been so far) great if not I followed my guidance. I’ve also followed guidance to eliminate social media and done that too.

  • @ashleydoreen000
    @ashleydoreen000 5 месяцев назад

    I’m happy you exist 🧡🧡🧡

  • @TheFifthWorld22
    @TheFifthWorld22 5 месяцев назад +2

    💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯🌟🎶💗💗💗🙏🏽

    • @TheFifthWorld22
      @TheFifthWorld22 5 месяцев назад

      I wish I could say more haha I wonder if you'll get the AdSense from the I'm watching now, I know I haven't on mine hehe

    • @AleciaRenece
      @AleciaRenece  5 месяцев назад +2

      Awwwwwww! I appreciate you so much for your support and kindness!!! I'm hoping you get your adsense monies soon! If you're doing work and they're advertising on your creations, you deserve your coin 💛💛💛🫂🫂🫂

    • @TheFifthWorld22
      @TheFifthWorld22 5 месяцев назад

      @@AleciaRenece I'm a witness to the oppression of Saturn I love everything you say
      thank you
      It's funny because we are on the same Natural Human Algorithm- The Truth Algorithm- there was many synchronicities in this video I just told a friend (before I watched), that I'm trying to carve a new life where I am not rigid haha
      We are forming the natural human Matrix again
      Ma matrix
      You help me do my work sending you love and peace

  • @kadlacdixon-thedrawmylifep3293
    @kadlacdixon-thedrawmylifep3293 5 месяцев назад

    2:07 They only show people who are also spewing the narratives they approve of, if you go against the grain, it's a good chance your content you worked so hard on, will never be seen...

  • @BastettheGh0st
    @BastettheGh0st 4 месяца назад

    While I agree with your thoughts, but I'm happy that the algorithm brought me to your channel 😊

  • @fae3821
    @fae3821 5 месяцев назад

    RUclips takes *45%* of the superchats!? wow😵‍💫

  • @abbagirl8819
    @abbagirl8819 3 месяца назад

    What about something where people can come bring their gifts and talents and share,sell freely? Something different.

  • @kadlacdixon-thedrawmylifep3293
    @kadlacdixon-thedrawmylifep3293 5 месяцев назад +1

    Interesting title because these algorithms will have you thinking you are not good enough to be heard or seen, quite frustrating for an artist and content creator...

  • @princessbagley
    @princessbagley 5 месяцев назад +1

    Hi Friend you look pretty and well rested!!

  • @kadlacdixon-thedrawmylifep3293
    @kadlacdixon-thedrawmylifep3293 5 месяцев назад

    16:59 so it just puts out one narrative...

  • @kadlacdixon-thedrawmylifep3293
    @kadlacdixon-thedrawmylifep3293 5 месяцев назад

    Money always ruins the art, just like hip hop was ruined once it started to go mainstream...

  • @BettyHaney101
    @BettyHaney101 5 месяцев назад +1

    ❤ Good morning, and have a wonderful, lovely day!

    • @AleciaRenece
      @AleciaRenece  5 месяцев назад

      Good morniiiiiing!!!! Happy Wednesdaaaaaaay 🥰💛🫂🌻🌺

  • @FinallyFreeandHealing
    @FinallyFreeandHealing 5 месяцев назад +1

    💗🤗💛

    • @AleciaRenece
      @AleciaRenece  5 месяцев назад +1

      🫂🥰💛🌺✨ Happy Wednesday 🌻🌻🌻

  • @janeblaze1
    @janeblaze1 5 месяцев назад +1

    Sis you are so beautiful!!! Come on skin 🥰

  • @kadlacdixon-thedrawmylifep3293
    @kadlacdixon-thedrawmylifep3293 5 месяцев назад

    25:28 Oh that's the worse when you record a whole video and it was so good just to replay it and have crumbs on your face or lint on your shirt... And your too embarrassed to release the video...or me I put lotion on my face so I won't be ashy, only to see traces of the lotion still on my face in the video...

  • @papertape7911
    @papertape7911 5 месяцев назад +1

    Leaving a comment for engagement!

  • @mpricemsw
    @mpricemsw 5 месяцев назад +6

    "I don't want to insult my community." WOW. I feel this!! Rejecting the need to palatable for these algorithms that function as overseers 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Thank you for this 🤎🤎🤎

    • @AleciaRenece
      @AleciaRenece  5 месяцев назад +3

      Yeeeeeeeeeees! This is so beautifully stated. Thank you so much ☺️🫂💛✨🌺 it's wild how easily these controlling systems wiggle their way into EVERYTHING. 😩 We just wanna create, heal and connect. 💛💛💛

  • @VoyageHER
    @VoyageHER 5 месяцев назад +1

    This is so real! I love this new era of Alecia 🩵🩵🩵 The messages you're putting out are hitting every time