All right, all right.
Feeney talks with friends, episode 123.
I got a great guest here, Stefania Sassano.
How are you doing? I'm doing good. How are you?
You may hear me refer to Stefania during the podcast.
She is the production associate for Direct Line Media.
But today she's our special guest.
How are you doing, Stefania? Doing pretty good.
How are you?
It snowed where I was.
It's like all snow over there when I left.
And then I came up here and there was nothing.
So I was like very shocked.
All right.
Because there's only southern.
Like you say, snow to a teacher. I'm like.
No school. Yeah. All right.
My name is Eric Feeney, founder and president of Friends of Feeney.
Our mission is to help children and families
that need assistance after heartbreak or tragedy.
And I use this podcast.
Feeney talks with friends, and I talk to wonderful guests
that are doing great things.
And Stefania, you are in.
You're your internet personality.
Yeah, I that's the first time I was referenced as that.
Actually, I've never heard that prior to this day.
We're dropping an exclusive here.
You're an actress.
You're a cosplayer.
You're a content creator. Yeah. How's that?
Well, I started with content creating all kind of.
I started with acting because I did theater in college.
But then towards graduation or more
so like January of 2021 is when I graduated in May.
I started to do content creating,
because I needed to figure out what to do after college.
And I went through college last two years at least with Covid.
So I didn't really have, like, much experience
or an internship to really solidify my career after college.
So I had, like, this, like, crazy
mental breakdown, and I was like, I gotta, I gotta figure stuff out.
So eventually I was like an idea in my head where I was like,
oh, maybe I could do some content creating because I saw people doing a drink.
Covid and I, ever since I was a kid who loves dressing up and doing theater.
So I was like, maybe I could do some cosplay and see where that goes.
And that's how I got here.
Wow. No. It's great.
You have TikTok, you have Instagram, you have Twitter.
How many followers do you.
I know how many followers. I looked it up.
Yeah.
How many followers do you have on TikTok?
I don't know if it's that, like 170.
172.6 thousand.
Yeah.
Thousand on TikTok is at least the followers are greater
on there than on Instagram, which I was surprised.
Instagram 137,000. Yeah.
Twitter 9000.
As expected. Right. Yeah.
TikTok pages. Hilarious.
And I mean not hilarious but well put together.
Interesting.
Engaging.
You know you you cosplay. Yeah.
So to our listeners at home what is cosplay.
So cosplaying is basically
it's it started in Japanese culture cosplaying.
That's why you see a lot of like anime cosplays is really where it started.
But it ventured off to like,
comic book cosplays and like, movie cosplays.
Basically, you dress up as characters from any pop culture thing,
whether it's film or comics or anime.
And there are comic conventions that you can go to where you can dress
up and meet voice actors or actors or comic book creators.
Either as the character or you can,
you know, just go in anything you want,
but it's, it's a safe space for people to express themselves and dress up and,
not really, because it used to be where
you'd get bullied for stuff like this, like years ago, and now it's become
so popular and just like a regular thing that anybody does it.
Yeah.
Larp, live action role playing
kids would be in the park like sword fighting and pretending to be like
a knight,
or on a mutant or an ogre and cosplaying.
That's what I thought of when I was a kid, you know, 20, 40, 30.
A long time ago anyway.
But now it's more developed into creating content
because you have a lot of cool videos.
Rogue is rogue, your your favorite show you go to.
So Rogue is Marvel, so you'll have a rogue talking to another character.
But you're playing both characters. Yeah, right.
So sometimes I'll have both cosplay, sometimes I won't,
and I'll just like kind of finesse it where I'll be like,
I'll just put the name of the character, at least if I don't have the costume.
But most of the time I try to do characters I have the costumes for,
so that way it's like cool or funny or, you know, interesting.
So I'm interested.
I know a lot of people listening are to
what does a content creator how does how do you acquire funds?
How do you get paid?
How well does it pay?
Where's the pay? Come in with the content creator.
So, with TikTok they have what's called,
Oh, I forgot the name for.
Basically, TikTok pays you, creative fun.
That's what it is.
So they have this creator fund where you can sign up for it.
I think you have to meet certain requirements.
And based on your,
views or like, engagement you get on your videos, they have to be
at least a minute long for TikTok, for Instagram, it can be any, amount.
But it depends on how well, your videos interacted.
And based off that, they'll give you, like, a rate
and they'll do that per
the rate per view, I believe it is on the video.
So you can make
a lot of people make like
thousands of dollars on TikTok if they have like a great amount
of following and, are consistent with their videos and have great engagement.
You can make thousands or like there are people that make millions
sometimes, but that could be throughout TikTok and Instagram.
You know, between
both of those with Instagram, they have what's called like bonus reels.
So or like it doesn't do reels anymore.
It does like post as well. But reels do better.
So it could be any length of video that you post
and that's based off of also engagement I think more so views and engagement.
And then based off that you get paid.
It's not you have to be pretty
I guess consistent with your work.
Because you sometimes can make and it's only monthly,
so you get paid out monthly so you can make like maybe
a thousand bucks one month and then like just 500 the next, or like less.
So it depends. It's not a lot of pay.
Like if you have a great amount of following
and you have like brand sponsorships, that's also another way to get paid.
Then you can make this like a living kind of work life for you.
But brand versus a.
Question I've got a brand deals.
Brand is where like you can make good money
because they usually pay instead of like paying their employees
or whatever, which, you know, sucks for like,
social media people that they hire that cost a lot more.
They look out for content creators and influencers and, ask them to do
like ads or reels, and they'll pay them whatever fee they have.
Sometimes it's cheaper than like, hiring, you know, somebody for the business.
Some like professional, I guess. Well.
How well have you been paid if you want to give us a range.
What video?
I mean, a couple of your videos.
Your X-Men intro.
Do not
listeners out there, if the X-Men 97 intro comes on, you never skip it.
Never say never. No.
One of the best intros of all time.
And you have a great video on that which has 2.4 million views.
Yeah.
So I'm guessing that got paid.
Yeah. So a video like that,
I don't remember how much I got paid for that, but it was
I know one month I got paid like over $700.
And I posted it was a few videos
that like got a couple million,
or maybe like I think it was one of those videos, like,
I like over a million and then a few that got like thousands.
So you keep hitting like the million spot, then you're going to be getting paid
like, well, every month.
But yeah, that's pretty that's about the amount.
Or maybe
if so, I guess if somebody
because I've seen people get like millions of views on videos and then
their page is probably like more popular, more engagement
toward it, and they get paid a lot more.
It just depends on the rates, because everyone's rate is different
based on the engagement on TikTok, at least.
I know it's funny that I'm a teacher, so I've been teaching for 21 years.
Last year was the first time in my
whole career is like, what do you want to be when you grow up?
A kid, said YouTuber in third grade.
And I was like, wow,
so it's out there like, yeah, YouTube is a profession in a career now.
Yeah. What you're doing was like,
I would have to say agree because YouTube, being a
YouTuber was a huge thing in like when YouTube came out.
That's when it really all started, because I've been seeing, I,
I have friends that grew up watching people on YouTube,
and I've grown up watching people on YouTube
that were very popular in the early to like mid 2000
to like 20 tens, but now like you don't see them as much anymore.
People, other people have taken over.
But being a YouTuber has been a thing for years now isn't like just now.
I think that has morphed into being an influencer.
Yeah, content creator right? YouTuber.
Same thing. Pretty much.
You know, Jake Paul started off a YouTuber and now he's a boxer.
Yeah.
He's Kim Kardashian's obvious an influencer.
Yeah.
I think her TikTok and Instagram pays are pretty well.
Yeah.
Who's the who's got the best TikTok page?
Who gets paid the most from their TikTok to, you know, like, do you have a content
creator that, you know, like, oh, Zach King, he's like a magician.
You ever see him? Sounds familiar, but I don't think I've seen his videos.
It's I'm on like a different algorithm on TikTok than like others might be.
Everyone's is custom to them basically.
So you're getting all cosplay Marvel.
I get a lot of like comic book Marvel stuff.
Yeah. Oh, interesting. Or like movie stuff to
nice.
Yeah. You went to University of New Haven.
I went to, I went to Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven.
Yeah. So shout out to New Haven.
Did you have a favorite pizza spot?
I didn't really go out for pizza when I was in college over there.
But we, my family and I would go to like Modern Pizza or Pepe's between those two.
But it wasn't like constant that I would go with my friends or anything.
And then you got your,
communications and and theater?
Yeah. I majored in communications,
concentrating in film production, then minored in theater.
I wanted to do so I went is undecided in college?
Actually, in high school, I told my guidance counselor
I was scouting these schools for, like, music programs.
And I told my guidance counselor, like, because I went to U and H,
at least to scout it because of their music program.
And it was very good.
And they went to, like, Tennessee and stuff for their internship. And,
I told my guidance
counselor in school, I was like, I want to study music.
And then when I sent that, she kind of gave me this, like, look like,
I don't know if that's something you should do.
And I'm like, well, I mean, I took classes for it, but and I was naive.
I was listening to my guidance counselor. Right.
They were no best for me.
And she said, why don't you go as undecided?
I was like, okay.
So I went as undecided and then I was like, I don't know what to do.
Maybe I was interested in architecture.
And so I was like, let me take an architectural design class.
And then I really wanted to do theater because I did theater
my last year of high school, even though I've always wanted to do it.
I was always very a shy kid, though.
So I didn't do it till my senior year.
And then I took the class,
the architectural class, and I was doing theater at the same time.
And then I found out I really wanted to minor in theater.
And then when I found out what the credit requirements were for,
architectural design, it was too much where I couldn't
do a minor for, like, free or like part of the, tuition.
I don't have to pay extra for it, and I don't want to pay extra.
Yeah. So, and that meant a lot more time.
You have yet to devote a lot more time to architecture
than, like, anything else, basically, because I think it was a five year,
major instead of a four year.
So I was like, I talked to my best friend one day.
I was like, I don't know what to do.
Like, I don't know if I should stick with theater or stick with this.
And, we were talking about because I loved film.
I grew up, you know, watching films with my family and my brother really
got me into all of that, into comic books as well, into Marvel and DC.
So she was like, why don't you, like, study film?
And then minor in theater? Because those really go really well together.
And I was like, that's a good idea.
So I decided to do that.
And it was funny because I had already told the architectural design,
teacher or head of the department that I was going to major in architecture.
And one day, like, came in and he had my paper ready and signed.
I was like, actually, I'm not going to do this anymore.
And you can like, just see in his face that he was like kind of disappointed.
I was like, yeah, because I was really good at at that class.
Like, I my sketches were not bad.
They were really good. They even on like the wall outside.
So I was like, yeah, I'm not doing this anymore.
And then I decided to film in theater, and I was happy that I did that
because I really focused, at least towards the second
half of my college career on theater, a lot more than film,
just because it was a lot more enjoyable for me.
And also, I didn't know as many people I'd studied film.
I didn't know as many people in the department
or close with them as I were with people in theater,
and I found myself always hanging out in the theater,
even when I wasn't there for rehearsal.
Like, even if I was in the lobby,
just like working on homework or whatever, I would always be there.
So I felt comfortable if used to be.
Yeah, I know Doctor Short.
In high school,
I took two drafting classes and I'm like, architecture is very cool.
You know, you're the triangle and the T square and being precise.
I really liked. It.
Yeah, I still have the supplies too.
I have like maybe a few of them.
I have my sketchbooks still, and they're pretty cool.
I mean, I sometimes I look through them like this
could have been a career that I could done.
But it's funny because the, head of
the film department was like, oh, you did architecture.
I was like, yeah, I did a class.
And he was like,
that's funny, because a lot of people, or most of the time sometimes,
in the film industry, there are people that will go into it
and then decide they want to like, work in architecture from that.
And I was like, oh, that's kind of interesting,
I guess, with like set building and stuff, which is what I did in theater, too.
I helped, whenever I could if I wasn't performing or rehearsing,
I was always like in the shop helping with building the sets for the shows.
Nice.
So, yeah, you did a couples film.
And theater and university in New Haven.
Unh unh. Chargers.
Aren't you the Chargers? Yeah.
It's funny, because there's also, New Hampshire.
That's confusing.
Yeah, but they have the right to say you and we don't. You.
And we would always joke like, oh, no, that's the good you in.
We were New Haven.
Whenever people like asked.
Winter's Tale, The Wolves, Mr.
Byrne, cabaret, almost Maine, the chorus line.
Yeah, chorus line was my freshman year.
So that was like going into theater my freshman year.
I was like, still very nervous and scared, and
I my audition, like, I didn't think I was going to make the cut,
but I did, but I made it as, like one of the cut dancers.
So it's,
you know, chorus line is like, dancers auditioning to be on a Chorus Line.
So there's like, cut dancers at the beginning
that are only there for that, and then they leave.
But my friends and I, who were the cut dancers,
we stood behind the these panels on stage that turned throughout the show.
So like we had stuff to do during it.
But that was basically my end to the theater department,
because after getting this, like very, very small part,
I became more comfortable with people around me, which helped me get,
one of the supporting roles in cabaret, which is like
my favorite show, one of my favorite shows we did there, mice.
I did something rotten
just two years ago.
I, I had came out as an old lady and I went
top ins, top ins for sale, and it was a fundraiser.
It was collaboration with Summer Academy in West Hartford.
My former student Penny was in it.
Her mom, Sarah, ran the show and they put me in a little cameo.
It was really cool. So I like acting.
Yeah, it's it's fun.
It's it's, a way to kind of get out of your comfort zone.
Yeah.
Even if it's like something small,
it's very easy to just kind of lose yourself in it.
Cool shirt X-Men.
We're going to get into the X-Men.
Where'd you get the shirt?
Tell us about it. X-Men 97 on the side.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah. Show that.
Why is that 97 on there?
Never skip the. Intro.
Never. Oh, it's also like these coordinates on here.
I haven't looked them up yet,
but I think it's coordinates to the X mansion in Westchester, New York.
I don't know if it's like the Airbnb X mansion that I went to
or if it's like just a random house that painted,
but I have to look it up, I keep forgetting.
So did they send that because you're a content creator and you're on attic?
They sent that to you, right? Yeah.
Did you have to talk about the shirt and, like, do a little promo? No.
Just photos.
This was Team Liquid,
I believe.
Yeah.
Team liquid, I actually my jacket too, is from,
them as well.
And also has the coordinates too.
But it's very comfortable and
I remember when I was like, you have to pick them out.
I picked my own.
I was like, picking them out. And I was like, this one's really cool.
And then we're like, oh, it's out of stock.
You have to wait a while for.
I'm like, all right, I'll wait for it.
Because it was worth it.
Because it's like casual wear.
You can wear it out,
but it's also nerdy where it's like you, you know, people won't think twice.
Actually, with us, the airport once.
And so was like, the security guy was like, I really like your shirt.
I'm like, thank you.
You get it?
And tell us about the Airbnb.
Did you have to sign an NDA? I did. Yeah.
You told. Me that a couple podcasts ago. Yeah.
So the this was in, I think, March.
I was reached out by someone for Airbnb and I was like,
what could Airbnb want with me?
I don't do anything with that. And then,
after it was like
before I had the meeting, I was thinking what they could possibly want.
And I remember they did like these icon series houses
where they like, built Barbie's dream House or a Shrek swamp.
And I was like, oh my God, they're going to do the X mansion.
I know it.
And, I had the meeting and she was like, so we're doing the X mansion.
And I'm like, yes.
And she showed me everything about it.
Well, like a little bit not to like, spoil, but April, I think it was we me.
And like a group of people, they had different groups, different days.
We got invited to go to the mansion and, it was like, beautiful.
It's in Westchester, New York.
So where the mansion is supposed to be, the property was huge.
And in front the driveway, there's like two driveways to get in.
And you
drive, driving up this hill, and then you turn the corner
and you can see a sentinel head in front of the mansion.
So, you know, like the the robots that are.
Yeah. Yeah.
So that was like the first thing that caught my eye.
And then there was like the sign that said Xavier School.
And then the mansion itself looked like
it was actually from the series, which is really, really.
The series I know.
How about when Deadpool goes to visit?
Is that very similar when he goes to get colossal?
That one's different.
That's like I would say like the modernized version of, like the X mansion.
That's like the MCU Fox Universe mansion, which is like
the it's like a castle, but it looks like almost like a mansion castle.
This one is like a house.
And why do you think they had you sign the NDA?
So we didn't tell anybody about it because it a secret.
It's like a big secret because as soon as it came out, it it got really hard.
You breaking the NDA right now? No.
Okay.
Now because the house is already out.
Oh, this is this is way before.
This is last year.
Yeah. So, Okay.
Did they ask for feedback or a little survey or so?
We had to do content.
So I knew other people that were in the group as well.
They're also other creators, and it's a place where you could.
So it's an immersive experience.
I don't think it's open anymore. They closed, I think, in October.
Brazilians certain amount of time that was available.
But basically you can stay in the mansion, but only one night.
But it's an immersive experience.
As soon as you like, get out your car and walk up to the door.
There's people out there waiting for you and like, they're all in character.
It's not the X-Men. It's themselves.
It's like, the people that work
for the X-Men, they're like, all wearing uniforms and stuff.
And they have, like, classes, and you walk in
and it's painted like it's 2D animation, like the show.
Okay? It's so. So did.
You go in cosplay or did you go. To.
No, I went, I was myself, but I did have like, rogue inspired look.
And my hair at the time was dyed like hers.
So I just wore, like, my brown jacket and, like,
how Rogue's colors would be very cool.
I also had the Danger Room, too, where you could actually use some machines
and like little tiny balls would, like shoot out.
And, we did like an exercise to is all an immersive experience.
And they had an arcade, an arcade, it had jubilee's room,
and she had her room is the coolest.
She had, a game, like Marvel X-Men game.
Where you, able to take. Pictures. Yeah.
Yeah, I could throw some pictures up some. Pictures on the pod.
Check them out.
You're gonna be popping on the screen right now.
Well, awesome. Sure.
I just want to mind talking about my shirt.
AC automotive gave me this.
My good friend Aldo. Great friend Aldo.
What I was going to say.
He has donated four years in a row.
So it's a AC automotive.
It's on New Britain Avenue.
They fix cars and they collect a scrap metal throughout the year,
and they add it up, and then they bring it back every year and,
recycle it or whatever.
They get paid for it, and they donate it to friends of Fini.
So thank you, Aldo and all of our friends at AC automotive.
You're an amazing group.
Great business cares about the community.
They had a Christmas party over at the Berlin Truck Bar.
Awesome spot.
They had like ten corn holes.
Bar like you said, arcade. So.
And he gave me this shirt. L.L. bean shirt. Pretty nice, right?
I don't yeah, I like L.L.Bean.
I, I kind of splurged one year to get the moccasins because they're, my
I think my brother said that if they like d fluff, they'll re fluff them for you.
Yeah. And I was like, oh, that's worth.
They had a lifetime guarantee return policy L.L.
bean. Really. So people would bring
use the school bags a backpack
maybe like but but the arm strap would rip a little bit.
They bring it back and return and get a new one.
I think they. Stopped that actually.
When I went to get my moccasins, they said the same thing that like
if they, I guess, if the lining ripped apart, whatever,
they would replace them or something, something like that.
Well thanks again Aldo, because this is my first ever L.L.Bean shirt.
So although, again, New Britain Avenue, Thank you.
Four years in a row.
It was awesome. So thank you.
Maybe I'll share that with them to check them out.
Aldo AC Automotive Aldo Carducci, his dad, started
and then Aldo ran the West Hartford one has his brother Guy
ran the number and one unfortunately Guy passed away last year.
So thinking a
guy, we had a moment of silence for him at the Christmas party.
I did a dance and
we has celebrity
Dancing With the Stars, which was sponsored by Lyons Auto,
which is down the street from AC automotive.
But we and they honored Guy as in memory of God.
And I want oh yeah. You said that.
I want the dance. So what did you win
a trophy? Oh, okay.
Bragging rights because I beat Victor from NBT Bank and I beat the mayor.
And I beat Dennis house and Ronnie New in from Wycombe in John.
But it was a good time.
We raised money. It's the.
It was at the JCC through Tom Hickey and
2020 media.
But friends of Feeney won.
Best of it was the best of awards.
So we won best nonprofit three years in a row.
And this year we collaborated with Arthur Murray's Dance and we did a dance.
So I dance with Julie, Julie Rivera shout out to my dance partner Zula.
She works at Juniper Home Care.
That's also on New Bern Avenue, up the street from AC automotive.
So it goes juniper AC automotive, Lyons auto, my three people,
and we we practiced.
I couldn't even clap on beat.
It was like.
And then we did like one two step.
That was day one just to do one little tango.
And then we did a whole minute and a half routine.
I put that up there.
And you have some in the video. Yeah.
Oh, check out my dance skills.
Leave a comment in the YouTube page or on the Spotify, Instagram.
I did dance as a kid. Yeah, yeah.
Never like ballroom or anything.
It was more like I started ballet when I was probably four years old.
And then I did tap and then jazz, and then when I got older,
I started to do hip hop, like in middle school.
And then I stopped because I, I didn't like how,
like they were not teaching, but I just didn't like the choreography.
And my friends and I started our own, like, dance
group is three of us in middle school.
And we did the talent show.
I can't find the video.
We don't know where the video is for it.
We did town show twice.
But the second year, I think it was our eighth grade was like a best one.
And then we
actually, in high school started a dance team.
I doubt it still exists today, but I think it was our senior year.
We started it and we got to do pep rallies and stuff, and people loved it so much.
But I don't think it exists.
I know that you are a Chicago dance audition workshop.
Jazz and funk. Yeah.
Anything.
Broadway dance, swing dance.
Chorus line dance. Yeah.
So that was at,
Cassie, which is the Kennedy Center American
College Theater Festival, and it was my sophomore year.
That was my first time going, and I got nominated for cabaret
for the Irene Ryan Acting Award, and, for that award.
Yes, compete for it.
And that's what they do, this festival.
And, there's a musical theater one, there's the acting one,
and then there's also like workshops you could do.
And that's where I did all those dance workshops. And I auditioned for,
this Broadway boot camp that was in Florida.
And I got in, and I couldn't,
I didn't want to, like, pay for it because it was, like,
five grand, I think for the summer.
And I was already paying, going to pay five grand for,
my internship for the Cannes Film Festival in the spring.
And I was like, yeah, I have to decline this.
Yeah. Which sucked because I really wanted to go.
My friend went and she said she had a great time, and then I ended up
not going to Cannes because, the
I guess secretary messed up her paperwork for, like, travel or something.
I don't know, we just get the paperwork for it.
It's terrible.
Yeah, yeah, I tried to go to Cannes three times.
The second time I was all set to go.
Paid,
and I got my passport to.
Had to redo it.
And then Covid happened.
Yeah. So.
And that was, I came back, that was my second year at CCaC.
I was nominated again for an award and competed for it.
And then when we came back from that, because it was like the end of February
or something, we came back from that.
We had a week of school and then everything was shut down,
and then they canceled all travel and stuff.
So I was like, I guess I'm not going to France.
And then the next year or two, my senior year,
they said we could try and get like a small group to go.
And I was like, oh, that's cool.
So I can graduate on the red carpet because that's what I was going to be
seniors graduating, and we were going during the time graduation.
And then they said, actually, no, we're not doing that
because it's like, okay, I guess I'm not going to France at all.
I was so I'm kind of still am salty about that to this day.
Sounds like it. Yeah.
Well three it's like three strikes. You're out. Basically. Yeah.
Like once I get it twice. Okay.
But three. That hurts. Yeah.
I was going to.
Well, our internship was supposed to be with Paramount, so.
But because we
had a deal with Paramount, I guess for the students. So.
Yeah. Very cool.
No, it says no accents.
You can do a German accent. Southern accent.
New York accent. What's up? British.
That's like the professional way of I forgot what it means.
So I probably learned that. I didn't know.
And can you, can you really do
softball, volleyball, soccer, billiards, ice skating?
Cartwheel, handstand.
Backstep.
Basic stage combat?
Yeah. Come on.
Like you really trying to be a marvel.
You want to be.
I mean, I did take boxing classes, so what about
I was after the fact of my stage combat, but crying actually.
Yeah.
X-Men 97, episode five reaction on TikTok.
Did you cry in command?
You're crying.
Is that fake? Well, wait, which one was that?
Was that the one in cosplay? I was like.
Yeah, you're in cosplay. You're at the tissue.
You kind of like X-Men 90.
This is I'm not crying.
But oh, was my reaction for oh reaction.
Oh that was those are real really.
Episode five was like devastating.
If you know you know. Spoiler. Tell us.
Well I mean it's been it's been two years now.
I mean I was 19. 97. Right. Almost a year. Yeah.
Notice from the new show.
Oh. The remake.
Yeah.
Yeah. It's been like just under a year.
All right, tell.
Us what's since the show. So, five.
And then can you, if you can cry in command,
tell us about it and give us a little couple of tears?
I've.
If you can.
I have to be, like, in a serious situation for me to cry on command.
Command? Yeah.
I mean, if but if it's like two of like, a goofy moment.
I don't think I could do that with the.
Okay, but tell us.
But episode five, who does?
Gambit dies.
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Spoiler.
If you haven't seen it by now, I mean.
Because Gambit dies,
like in the comic book and in 90.
So in 97.
So two in Will he dies in the comics?
Yeah.
Okay.
Oh, you know what?
I don't I don't think he actually died in the comics.
I can't recall, but,
I know why he died in the show, and, why?
Like how he's going to come back,
and it's based off of the early 2000, I think was early 2000.
Run of X-Men, where he dies and, and not dies.
He, becomes Apocalypse's
Horseman of Death and, Yeah. So.
But I reckon I'll wreck, I guarantee.
Give me your best.
My impression of Gambit.
Oh, no, that's that's, You can't.
Gambit. Gambit, Cajun.
Cajun is very, very wrong.
T no, this thing. No, no.
Cajun. Not southern.
I know Cajun. Is that the word southern?
But I know for a fact.
Gambit line is, I guarantee.
No. Come on now, let's Google that.
We gotta look that guarantee. I've never heard of that.
Maybe that's the old school original one.
I looked this up.
I've never heard that. You've never. Heard.
Damn it, say that. No.
Oh my goodness.
He even did it.
And I think he did it in Deadpool.
So I'm just going to call it.
Yeah. If you want to.
You saw Deadpool right? The new one.
That was awesome. When he came out.
His Cajun accent is like pretty close authentic Cajun accent.
Like, that's what it sounds like sometimes.
Hard to understand, most times hard to understand.
Yeah.
Who was that? That was.
Channing Tatum. Yes.
Wesley Snipes blade intro was really slow mo with the goatee, which was cool.
How they came in was very cool.
As soon as I saw the card thrown into frame, I was like, I, I,
my brother was sitting to the right of me and I just started, like, punching him.
So excited. He's it's coming, it's coming. Yeah.
I didn't know it's going to happen either.
It's crazy.
They kept it a secret.
I don't know, it's going to look it up,
but I put in Gambit guarantee. But
oh maybe.
Maybe Gambit says guarantee.
But I can't believe Gambit die.
Spoiler. That's, I guess your episode five.
But he's coming back. Don't worry.
Just as a horseman of death.
So I won't be a good guy. But,
That's a spoiler for the second season.
But if you know, you know the comics.
Man, I'm here with Stefania Fasano and internet
personality and product production associate.
I can't read today
product. So we're going to do three keys.
Okay.
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What are three keys that make you great?
I'll let you choose.
You want to talk about being a production associate or internet personality?
I would use,
content creator instead of internet personality.
All right.
Content creator, what are three keys that make you a great content creator?
So one of them, which I've kind of been lacking in lately,
but should be a great key, is, consistency.
So if you're consistent with your work, then,
your videos, even if they do like not as well as you think.
The consistency is what matters the most.
You just be posting like two times a day,
or like it has to be a lot, which is crazy for you
to get great engagement, but eventually, if you're consistent with it,
it'll all pay off in the end is what that's how I view it as.
A second one.
Having a creative mind helps a lot.
So if you come from a creative field
or if you have something you're passionate about, having a passion is very big.
Then it'll help you kind of steer your way through
content creating and looking at other people as like,
influences for what kind of you want to do,
because that's how I basically started.
I saw something that I was interested in or really good at
or passionate about, and I decided to make content about it.
And then over the years, because I started this
like four years ago now, three, three years ago now. 425.
Yeah. Almost four.
And my stuff has changed over the years.
So I started with cosplaying and then I got into like the comic stuff,
and then I started doing a little bit of film stuff, and now I'm doing like
kind of a mix of all of it, but also mostly I kind of ventured
more towards like stuff that's coming out from like Marvel
and whatnot, just because a lot of things are coming out this year for Marvel.
Like Fantastic Four is a big one.
And then a third one,
a third key.
I guess
a third key would be like networking or like,
networking is huge, but especially with content creating,
having mutuals online and like commenting on those stuff
and being friendly with them.
Of course, like
because you want that friendship, but also it's great to know people,
because one day they could think of you and be like,
hey, maybe you'd be interested in being part of this
or coming with me to this event like I have a lot of people
that are like that I have become good friends with,
and I've gotten invited to an event, and I was like, this person would love this.
Let me see if they'd be interested in going.
So there's like the benefit in that, but also because, like,
you really want to make friends and mutuals
and then when you go to Comic-Con, you finally meet them in person.
And it's like a great, fun time. So cool.
Yeah, you just inspired me.
I don't do enough
commenting on other people's posts from the friends of any account.
Other nonprofits are other organizations that are doing great things,
but that'll lead and build friendship and build that network.
Yeah, like I've gotten asked to be part of a lot of things.
I'm going to take care of that.
Yeah. You're building your network.
You're building that discourse back and forth.
They'll leave a comment on you.
You'll leave a comment on them.
Consistency, creative mind and networking.
I love the three keys. That was really good.
And I'm going to start doing that.
Yeah, you just opened my eyes to something new.
Well you're welcome because I like the twice a day.
We were at the point we did twice a day. Yeah.
But we try to do a little something in the morning or something after.
Before school or after school. Yeah.
That's how I started.
I was posting like,
well, it was like Tuesdays and Thursdays.
I started doing like three times those days.
And then I started to do, like a couple a day,
maybe leaving, like, the weekends open.
But I was always constantly posting, and I was always up till like 3 a.m.
just making content.
And I would be so exhausted, like, that's how much hard work I put into it.
And then over the years, it kind of like slowed down for me.
I kind of started realizing, like, okay, I was crazy, but I got to myself.
I got myself to this point.
Now maybe I can start, like slowing down a bit.
But now I need to, like, pick back up where I left off.
No, your videos look like they take some time. Yeah.
Number one, you got to get in costume.
Yeah. Two, you got the back and forth.
There's
so much involved. How much?
How much time would one video take, say the,
rogue talks with Carol back and forth.
How long did that take to create and get out?
So getting, like,
all ready for one take probably took about, like
half hour to 45 minutes
and then the next take would be like about the same.
Oh yeah.
Because you have to know what you're going to say back and forth.
Right?
Because you had to do this whole part on this side. Yeah.
Dressed. Yeah.
So this part, I think I.
Like the dress and go, okay.
I don't go like back and forth and no particular side.
You cut.
All the parts is rogue.
Over here. Yeah. And Carol. Yeah.
Who is Carol, by the way? I'm sorry.
So Carol Danvers is Captain Marvel.
Gotcha. Gotcha. She.
If you want to know a little about
how the relationship is and why I do both their characters,
sometimes it's because, In Rogue's first appearance, Avengers Annual ten,
rogue absorbs.
At the time, she was Miss Marvel.
Carol Danvers.
She the her powers absorption.
So she can only skin to skin contact.
And, if she holds you long enough, she can either put you in a coma
or kill you, and steal your powers permanently.
Which is what she did with Carol Danvers.
She put her in a coma and stole her flight and strength and invulnerability.
Permanently.
So they did. That's why.
Rogue. Yes.
And so she was her first appearance.
She was a villain because she was part of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.
Her parents were a mystique and destiny.
Mystique?
Yeah.
So she was raised by those to, when she was a kid
because she ran away from home.
I don't know how she was, but she was very young, and,
they raised her to
to be a villain and go after Carol and.
Yeah.
And then they meet again later in the comics,
and they fight it out, and rogue gets punched.
And this is when she becomes, like, a hero.
Because then she leaves the Brotherhood and,
after realizing that she needs help with her powers and controlling them.
And like she.
Because when she absorbs somebody,
especially like Carol permanently, her psyche is also
in her hand, like Carol's in her head.
So there will be times where Carol will try and, like,
push forward and try to go over Rogue's body.
So this happens with, like, anybody she could absorb,
she also takes on physical traits.
Sometimes it's like if she absorbs mystique, she will turn blue as well.
Oh, yeah.
Mystique is the one who goes through walls.
No, she can shapeshift.
Oh. Kitty Pryde.
Played by
John Stamos, his old wife.
I forgot her name. In the movie.
And the original. Yeah. X-Men movie.
Rebecca romaine. Stamos. Yeah.
Okay. Gotcha.
All right. We do.
Favorite restaurant?
What's your favorite restaurant?
I don't really go out.
But I would say I love getting pizza, so.
All right, it's very hard to choose peppers and modern between those two.
I've had modern more often than peppers, though.
So you have modern and you could eat with.
For superheroes, we usually do dinner guests, but today's topic all superheroes.
I've got four superheroes who you win. Why?
I mean, I have to put rogue.
Is one of them. New that. She's obvious.
Here's what we're going to flash a picture of you in rogue.
Boom.
Yeah. Me as rogue or you as rogue. Okay.
Who? Hasbro.
How's playing? Hello? Yeah.
Word of the day.
Oh, Spider-Man.
Spider-Man? Yeah.
Absolutely. Spider-Man.
Because Spider-Man pizza,
they go all together.
With great power comes.
Great responsibility, which is not the original quote from the comics.
That's not how it goes in the comics.
Oh, yeah. You did that.
Well, it was like shorter.
It was like shorter.
Kind of how they did it in the movies with great power must also come.
Great responsibility. Like, I think that's how it said whatever.
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Which is like, I don't know, that was like a little nerd comment.
So rogue Spider-Man,
Have you ever cosplayed as Spider-Man?
Spider. Gwen. Okay,
flash picture of you cosplaying?
Yeah. Spider woman or spider girl? No.
I I've wanted to do Spider Woman, but, she's not like, a priority on the list
at the moment.
I don't want to leave it to just Marvel characters.
I mean,
one of my my first favorite Marvel character, actually, was Loki.
Boys of Loki.
So rogue spider man, Loki, and.
Flash. Picture of you and Loki.
Yeah.
And, maybe I'll throw in a DC character.
This is very difficult.
I like it.
See, I mean, I could do Supergirl because I cosplayed Supergirl.
Supergirl got very popular for me, last year, but,
As in you cosplaying as her.
Not popular, but as, like, as the flash version.
The flash movie version. She's in the flash.
Yeah, you'll be right. Yeah.
Sasha. Yeah. That's the actress. Yeah.
Which I loved her as Supergirl on.
I wish we got more of her, but not like that.
DC's over.
So. Okay.
So rogue. Spider-Man.
Loki and.
This is very, very difficult.
Well, here's some people I saw you dressed as Supergirl.
Rogue, black cat.
Harley Quinn,
Disney characters, Disney princesses.
Mega. Yeah.
Star Wars characters and Marvel characters.
Yeah.
So just give me some hints.
This fourth one stumped. She stumped everybody.
Yeah, I there's so many great people.
I would choose.
I would choose Harley Quinn.
Okay. She. You know why?
Because
I feel like some crazy things might be.
Interesting for conversation.
Yeah. Interesting conversation.
Also like, she's a very,
like, you wouldn't
picture her with this group of people,
so I would throw Harley Quinn in there as, like, kind of a wild card.
Nice.
So we got rogue, Spider-Man.
Loki, Harley. Quinn. Yes.
Very nice, I like it.
All right.
Your TikTok videos or your content that you've created your content.
You created new game, your first content piece.
And we got it.
All right.
We got cutting down on time.
So we got first and next.
I would do like a minute on each your first content piece,
your last content piece, your best content piece
and your worst content piece.
I don't remember the very first one that I did, but I do remember one
where I basically was dressed as rogue, and it was like this trend where,
I said I it was a comment about like,
the rogue in the Fox movies and basically like how bad of a version she was.
I was like, when, when the producers, whatever, make your character look,
like awful compared to, like, where you actually are or whatever.
And that one was my first.
That was the first video that really blew up my page.
And I got like a lot of followers from that,
first class.
Yep. The last video that I did,
what was the last video that I did?
I feel like look that up.
Well, the last video that I personally did
myself was a recap of my 2024, which is like every event
and stuff that I went to and my Comic-Con experiences and all that.
And then my best video, I think was the X-Men
97 intro with the 2.7 million views.
Oh no, it wasn't.
It was a video that got like a lot more views.
Actually, it got like 8 million. Whoa. Nice.
Actually, I kind of went through this and there is one of my best videos,
even though it wasn't personally done by me,
it was by Marvel Social and your Comic-Con in 2023.
It was me just as rogue.
And somebody dresses Gambit who's really rude to his six foot eight huge.
And we did a video with Marvel Social
and that video got, I think, 11 million views, on their page.
So I'm going to count that one as my best.
Yeah, because I wasn't it wasn't my video personally, but I was in it.
And then my worst video.
I would say my worst videos were ones
where I probably, like, just
talked about
my collections of things in my,
comics.
Sometimes those videos and do as well.
So there were times where the videos where I like gave tours of my office,
and those weren't really that interesting.
Those were bad ones compared to other ones.
The video was really like, talk to me in character.
Oh, sure, I had a character.
Oh, shake my hand. And yeah, that was the first time I did that.
I did that at Rhode Island Comic-Con.
Because I was like, this is such a genius thing
to do for a rogue, especially with no glove on. That was a whole point.
That you
heard it here first, last, best, worst
TikTok videos.
Oh, she's been in a video that's 11 million, and your own one has 2 million.
Yeah.
All right, this next question, can you answer in character.
Though? What character?
What your let's do rogue.
Okay I'm going to but I'm going to ask Stefania who her favorite teacher is.
So but talk as your rogue.
My favorite teacher
I have to answer as rogue.
Yeah. Oh shoot.
Come on, you. Can do this. Well, your third grade teacher.
Yeah.
Okay.
You're really putting me on the spot.
You like it? Come on. It's good.
Well, I would say my favorite teacher
was probably my third grade teacher, Mr.
Messina.
I can't really do the accent right now because I'm, like, in the state of mind,
or it's like I'm trying to do it.
I would
say my favorite teacher when I was a kid was Mr.
Massena, because he was real cool.
And he,
I had him for a second grade, but also for third grade,
because we loved him so much that we all want him in third grade as well.
And after he came to our pool party at the end of the year,
and he hung out with us and he was always real nice and I'll never forget him.
That was the worst accent.
And I mean, I was the worst.
I could do better, I promise. I was really good.
And then you were put on the spot. Yeah. All right.
How about another character?
What are the character has an accent.
I mean, I don't know,
I've never done a British character.
Oh, how about let's pick a language?
A language?
German rap, southern or New York?
You got a choice.
This is like Jimmy Fallon. Spin the wheel.
Ding ding ding. Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding.
All right British accent.
So British accent comes from being a fan of One Direction.
Really? Yeah.
Yeah, that's all right.
With a British accent. Accent.
Tell us about your favorite moment with a friend
because this is friends.
Afeni, in our mottos, be a good friend.
Be a good friend.
My favorite moment with a friend
has to be.
Has to be.
Probably when we went to see One Direction.
And so I'm gonna say bring one direction into this, while doing a British accent.
So, this was in 2014.
This is the first time we have so One Direction together.
And it was the stadium tour where we are, and, the band
Five sauce, five seconds of summer opened up for them.
And it's kind of like a bragging thing, because there are a lot of people nowadays
that are like, oh, I wish I was a teenager when I went to see One Direction
and saw five slots open for them in those, and I was like, I am really aging me.
So yeah,
I would say, I would say that was that was the best.
All right. Cool.
One direction with friends in a British accent.
I love it.
All right, so we got the boom boom boom.
Are you ready for some trivia?
Oh, God. Yes.
Oh, actually, first, some cosplay questions, sir.
Fire away
cosplay questions.
How long have you been cosplaying?
Five years. Four years?
What kind of cosplayer do you consider yourself?
Probably Marvel mostly.
Why do you cosplay?
Because I love dressing up.
What would you tell someone who hated cosplay?
That it's fun and you should give it a try.
Are your cosplay costumes homemade or bought?
Half and half.
I make props mostly with, like, foam and, a 3D printer.
Nice.
Oh, let's list some of your cosplay costumes because you have a bunch.
Yeah.
So I have rogue.
I've done Dazzler, I've done, Harlequin black, spider.
Gwen Mega from Hercules.
I've done a Winter soldier cosplay as well.
Like, I actually built the arm for it too.
It's, The metal arm.
Yeah, I built it with Bucky. Yeah. Bucky.
And then I also built Loki's horns as well.
That was my first ever prop making thing.
They look not as great, though.
Ray from Star Wars.
I though her staff,
those are the ones that are, like, top of my head that have come out
that I've done very cool.
How about rogue?
Was that purchased?
That was purchased? Yeah.
How much do you mind me asking?
It was just over 100.
I would say, but I it was, pieces that I took from like, different.
So I bought, a nicer suit,
but it was custom fit, and it actually didn't custom fit me.
Like, if something was wrong with it.
But I kept the jacket from that, and I just used it with the old suit that I had.
How about Supergirl?
How much was that one?
Supergirl I forgot to list Supergirl.
Supergirl. That was like.
Well, those are two fit. Maybe, like 70 bucks.
Oh, those are your two favorites.
I would say Supergirl has become one of my favorites
recently because of how popular she's become with me at least.
Because every there was a post that I did
where people thought I was actually the actress,
in The Flash movie because it was like a mirror picture.
I know if you saw that one, it was a mirror picture,
and I was on location for like a photo shoot,
and it got like 90,000 likes on it,
and people were like, oh my God, I thought, this is actually Sasha.
She's like, I thought, this is a picture from because I posted on a year
anniversary of the movie coming out, that's why. Oh, smart.
Well played timing. Good timing. Yeah.
What's your most expensive costume?
With the amount of,
like, effort I put into my rogue cosplay, I would probably say rogue
is the most expensive because I've even bought boots for her.
Two the custom suit wasn't cheap and that ended up not fitting.
Which sucked.
And then the boots that I bought were like $60 themselves,
and then I stopped using them because they're very uncomfortable.
So in total, I think that's the most I've spent, which is crazy.
And then what was your first convention? Last convention.
First convention was terrific.
Con and Mohegan Sun.
And that which is actually where I bought my first throw comic
because somebody I was dressed as rogue, somebody like rogue.
And I turned around and they were like, we have your comic, I bought it.
They're so great timing.
And the last convention I went to was Rhode Island
Comic-Con in November, and I was a guest there.
And when's your next convention?
That's.
I'm not sure of yet.
It's still up in the air.
I was supposed to go to Emerald City in Seattle, which I went to a few years ago.
But I don't know about that yet.
Based on Wizard of Oz.
Is that why it's Emerald City?
Oh, no, no, no, I know, I,
but I have a possibility
of going to San Diego Comic-Con, which is like the big, big one officially.
I know I will be on new Comic-Con again, because
that one I've been going to last years, and that's easy for me to get into.
Would you do contacts or no?
Are you can't do wear contacts or no contacts when you cosplay?
I tried, contacts, but you have to really, like, train yourself to wear them.
But it's not like I can't wear them.
I just have to practice a lot. More wigs or no wigs.
Wigs? Yeah.
Boom. These are questions from the cosplay.
I actually I sprayed my hair black for Rhode Island
Comic-Con for Supergirl because I didn't want to wear a wig.
And you're so awesome.
Do do, Photoshop or not?
Photoshop.
Sometimes I do Photoshop, depending on, like, if I wanted to look a certain.
Way and do prefer videos or photography.
I kind of prefer photography, actually.
All right, that's cosplay questions.
I would do a quick Marvel question. Trivia.
Now we're in the trivia game park.
All right.
What genre is X-Men 97 series?
Comedy. Drama. Animation. Documentary.
Animation two. Easy.
Who created X-Men 97 series?
Oh! Bow. Tomorrow. All right.
The newest one, right? Yeah, yeah.
When did the X-Men 97 series premiere?
The newest one? Yep.
Last year. Last March.
March 20th, 2024.
Oh, yeah.
Where is the X-Men series set.
In Westchester, New York
or New York City? Whichever.
Who is the leader in X-Men and X-Men 97?
Cyclops supposed to be the leader.
What's his real name?
Scott Summers.
What's storm's real name?
Ororo Monroe.
What's Wolverine's real name? Logan.
I don't remember his last name, actually.
Oh, God.
Yeah. James. James Howlett.
Howlett. James Howlett. Yeah.
He goes by two names.
What is the original series that X-Men 97 is a revival of.
X-Men The Animated Series. Very good.
Who's the head writer for the first two seasons of X-Men 97?
Jane, Julia and, the League.
It's Julia, and.
This is Beau.
Oh, for the original show or for the newest one
for the.
I think it's X-Men 9797. His email.
Well, okay, I thought you meant the original series.
Sorry.
Who's the supervising director of X-Men 97?
Is it J. It's the jackass arena.
Yeah, yeah.
You're good.
Oh. Jackass arena. No, we're we're.
Is that the guy you met?
One of the guys I met at the premiere.
But I'm.
I'm mutuals with a lot of the people from X-Men 97.
And, like, the voice actors to true.
Mutuals, like mutual friends.
Yeah, like Instagram.
And I've also, like, met them at cons.
I've met them a few times. They're always so great to talk to.
Well, what's the country of origin in X-Men 97?
The US? Easy.
How many parts does the first season of X-Men 97 series have
parts?
Oh, episodes? Yeah, there's nine episodes.
Ten, ten, ten episodes.
All right, now we're doing movie quotes.
Marvel character quotes.
Oh, boy, is it like Marvel or just X-Men?
I think they're all MCU.
Okay.
I choose to run toward my problems, not away from them, because that
that's what heroes do.
Oh, on
when I, I don't know, Thor thought,
oh, you're about to say heroes do I think, oh.
I can't control their fear.
Only mine.
Hulk.
The Hulk.
No. Oh, God.
Wanda
Elizabeth. Olsen. No.
My brother would be very good at this.
He's very good at quotes.
It's not enough to be against something
you have to be against for something better.
These are tough.
These are very tough.
This is Captain America, Tony Stark.
You know, I was thinking Iron Man, and then I was like, oh, no, cap.
I'd rather be a good man than a great king.
Is this Black Panther?
For this part of the journey is the end.
Part of the journey is.
Oh, my God, these are tough. These are very tough.
These are like quotes and nobody remembers.
Right? These are.
It's not like the super.
The Spider-Man one that I said earlier.
Oh, boy.
Oh I got, I nothing got.
You know when you say hey he'll go right over his head.
He goes, nothing goes over my head.
My reflexes are too fast.
I would catch it. Drax. Yeah.
That was so easy.
That was a good one.
That's a very Drax quote.
Oh, okay.
Love is a dagger.
It is a weapon to be wielded far and away or up close.
You can see yourself in it.
It's beautiful. Until it makes you bleed.
Someone you're gonna have dinner with as Loki.
Yeah. Okay.
When you said dagger, I was like, yeah, that makes sense.
Oh, it's from the Loki series.
He says it.
It's from the Loki series? Yep.
What'd you think about that Loki series is great.
I think Loki is my favorite, series that they've done.
Yeah. And then WandaVision. WandaVision?
Yeah, I stopped, I couldn't watch the moon one.
Moon Knight, Moon. Knight.
I didn't watch She-Hulk.
You got a pretty good She-Hulk.
You didn't mention She-Hulk.
I know I forgot about.
She did that at D23 a few years ago.
She. Had off the guns to.
You were like She-Hulk.
Which someone else is? She-Hulk.
Oh, that's something I was Gomorrah.
Oh, that's right now. I was Gamora then.
But my friends are like, you actually got buff last time we saw you.
We need to do She-Hulk again.
I was like, okay, I'll do it because I've been going to the gym.
That was so funny.
I love you, 3000.
That's Tony Stark.
Better get that one.
Or Morgan Stark because Morgan says that as well.
His daughter on a train.
Part of the journey. But, but boom, boom.
Let's see a lot of Tony Stark, a lot of Thor.
Who's the ancient one?
Oh, in Doctor.
Strange. Yeah.
Oh, okay.
Another dinner guest of yours.
Okay. No man could win every battle.
But no man should fall without struggle.
No man can win every battle.
But no man could fall without struggle.
I feel like Loki wouldn't say those.
Spider-Man. Let's say that.
Yeah, Spider-Man. Very good.
Oh, but what is grief if not love?
Persevering vision.
Oh you're good. Okay, okay.
That one's a memorable quote. Oh, yeah.
Shoot.
I could talk to you forever.
There's a lot of stuff that that can be brought up.
I could just talk about. How do people reach out to you?
Or if you aren't, they how do they find you on TikTok?
If you want to share your, your Instagram or your email.
So my email is linked usually to my bio.
So just my socials, would be easier.
So on Instagram you can find me at Stefania, underscore Sassano or on TikTok
and just TikTok really or at YouTube
as well is at Stefania Susana because I do YouTube sometimes as well.
That one's very hard to be consistent with very, very hard.
I know I noticed that too, because we have so many platforms
and it's like you got to put each one up every time.
So this time I hope that doesn't pick up.
That was out
and pretty embarrassing.
But yeah.
Hey, so how's your podcast flush?
Be a good friend.
I mean, this is Stefania. Susana.
She is a content creator.
She has 176, 72,000 people, 1000. 72.
Point six.
Oh. Sorry. Okay. What was I going to do?
Hold on.
I just had under 76 earlier.
176, oh eight, 173 of you.
Round source.
Like thousands of followers between then and now, coming.
On the friends podcast, they're like, oh boy, are we going to get some clips?
Are you going to share some clips on your page from our podcast?
I mean, I could like, usually what I do with my, podcasts, I'll like post story,
stories on my thing consistently.
So yes. Yes.
Because I notice, like with stories, there's a lot more people that
tend to view stories.
Or they're easier to access view instead of like posting.
Sometimes posts aren't like they're all over the place, not like,
oh, this was recently posted.
It comes up on your timeline because the timeline doesn't do that anymore.
Instagram used to do that where it's like it was in order
of what came first posted.
All right.
If you're listeners out there, do you have any questions for Stefania?
She's going to be with us next podcast too.
She is the production associate for Direct Line Media.
I'm so happy that she was here.
We got to learn behind the camera.
She stepped in front of the camera as our content creator.
She doesn't like internet personality, but I love it.
I want to be an internet personality.
I've gotten celebrity as well a lot.
I'm like, I don't think I'm quite there yet, but multiple times.
Cosplayer.
Cosplay. I'm going to start cosplaying.
When's the one at the casino? I want to go to that one.
In July.
They usually do it.
How about I dressed up as Spiderman at camp
for a parade and snuck up on the kids?
That costume is.
You gotta be pretty confident to wear that.
That costume. There's,
You learn from a lot of other Spider-Man cosplayers
what to wear with the suit.
Yeah.
I wore it to my friend's birthday for his kid.
I snuck on the kids.
Yeah, I went change, snuck up. John. Script.
His son in, had a birthday script.
I showed up with the kids.
The kids were like, they start chasing me around.
I'm chasing them. Yeah.
And then, like, I dipped away, but, like, you know,
you're a full suit.
Yeah.
So definitely motivated.
I'm like, all right, maybe
we should, to do a couple more push ups and some more set ups here.
Teeny mix in a salad, buddy.
Yeah, there's a lot of costumes. Just spandex in here.
Like, okay, I have to do something about this, so.
Yeah. But it was so great to talk with you.
We'll talk more again if you have any questions.
She'll be here next episode. We'll shoot her the mic.
She sits right over there today.
She's sitting right here. Stefania.
You can find her on TikTok, Instagram,
YouTubes, Twitters, all the good stuff.
Any closing remarks?
I guess for people that want to like do cosplay
or content creating out there,
just to just do it, I mean, there's no other advice I can give
because I kind of I went I got to a low point to get to a good point.
So yeah, someone said,
do it even if you get no likes or something.
Yeah. It's like, just do you're passionate.
Passionate about it. You love what you do.
You enjoy it.
I mean, you're getting free swag.
That's a perk.
It's I mean, sometimes you're getting a check once in a while.
Yeah. It has to be consistent.
Sometimes not consistent with brand deals, but once you get there, you know,
you're in.
It's got to be where.
Where am I got to be consistent,
creative and networking.
Yeah. Three keys.
But again Stefania, thank you again.
On three will say be a good friend okay.
123 be a good friend.
Say it is rogue.
Okay.
Be good friend. Sugar.