It felt incredible being named
one of the most influential teens of 2016 by Time.
I was very surprised and extremely honored, of course,
because there's plenty of teenagers in the world.
I am an artist, first and foremost, of course.
But today you can literally make a living out of being you.
You know, you could start a YouTube channel, a podcast.
Um, you can do Instagram videos.
You can be funny on Twitter and all that and just be yourself.
And I feel like for me, to do something that I love,
and the people love back, it's really (smooches).
Technologies that I heavily rely on is definitely
my computer and my phone. Those are the two things.
When they released the iPhone- the first iPhone,
and Steve Jobs said, "This is revolutionary, guys!
We have an iPod, we have a phone, and we have a computer!"
and it was like, "Oh my gosh!" People were freaking out
it was all these three things in one thing.
And now it's like, "Of course we have internet,"
"Of course we have music,"
"Of course we got a camera," and all that.
There is a lot of things that my parents don't understand.
'Cause I'll feel like,
(imitating) "You don't know what it's like to be a teenager!"
but I feel like they do, though.
Memes, my mom will probably not get that.
Teens get memes. It's just a part of the culture and
that's just something you gotta stay on top of.
I was just visiting another office
and they had written down all the memes
and it was just like a complete wall of all the memes.
And I just remember being like,
"Oh my gosh, I remember that one!"
"I remember that one," "I remember that one!"
I go out, I do stupid stuff.
I do behave like a teenager, as I should.
Love, breakups, you fight with friends, you make new friends,
you fall in love again, and you know, all that.
But just growing up in general, it can be really tough.
And people will look at you in a certain way
because you are younger and
people will definitely look at you in a certain way
because you are a girl and if you combine that,
I feel like it's really easy to feel small and-
or for other people to make you feel small.
Of course teenagers have great ideas
and that's why I don't really understand some people
on social medias that I see that preach
that teenagers shouldn't speak about political things.
Of course we should
and I feel like it's so good to see teenage magazines.
You You know, I open the page and it's like,
"Oh my gosh, they're talking about the war in Syria."
We need to know because we are growing up.
So sometimes it's okay to take a break
and it's okay to not speak up on every issue,
but I will always back people up who does it.
We do have the power and
if we don't have it right now, we're gonna have it someday.
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