Kenny

I didn't get any brand deals while I was on Vine, which was strange, but I didn't have no filter. So I was this kind of owner just making whatever I wanted to make, just being a kid for real. I posted so many Vines that my Vines were compilations on YouTube. So they were getting millions of views. So I signed with Collab and they would just claim all the money from the compilation.

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1261.588

So I would get like a monthly check. So that's how I was getting paid. So at first I wasn't getting paid, but, like, after, like, late junior year of high school, my mom was on my head about getting a job and making, like, yo, you need to work. I went to Target. They declined me. I went to Wendy's. They declined me. I'm like, bro, Wendy's? You're going to decline me?

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1280.812

I'm like, bro, I can't even put the fries in the bag. And then I checked my first collab check. I got – this was a lot for me at the time. It said, like, $550. And I was like – I was like, ma –

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1296.26

I'm like, I don't know. I'm like, I'll take it. And then like, I just kept making stuff and then eventually it went up.

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27.489

I'm gonna cherish this for the rest of my life. It literally say Vineyard a year, last one ever in like quotations.

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44.163

Yeah, I think it's a dolphin.

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57.931

I didn't know I was going to win. I mean, I was the only black person, like, in the final nominations. And I was just like, I should have this in the bag.