Storytime! I Died and Came Back! Do You Want To Hear The Full Story?
Welcome!
Welcome to my new blog: The TikTok Tea. If you've already subscribed to The TikTok Tea Times and read your first email from me, you'll know a bit of my story. If you haven't, you should do that now. But the story in this video is one I'd rather share on TikTok, live, so I can reply to your comments and let you know how it feels to go through something that hard and conquer it.
Why?
I know you're going through things in your own life right now that you can't talk to people about, and that sucks. You sit in your room and ask Google how to cope, but unless you know what you're dealing with it's hard to know what to ask Google. One of the things that comes with age is working out the best questions to ask, not so much having all the answers. Nobody has all the answers, but we can all ask better questions. If you're live with me on TikTok, I can help you with those in real time. Would you like that?
What You Need To Do Next...
Although I have a STACK of experience in social media, as a pioneer of the space, a magazine columnist on social media culture for half a decade, and someone who has beta tested for everyone from Google to Twitter, I'm new to TikTok. So, I need two favours from you. Oh... British, by the way, so get used to favours having a 'u'.
Favour 1: Follow me on TikTok (TheRebeccaBardess) and comment there and here so I can check out your stuff (and maybe feature you here and in the newsletter if you impress me) and get enough followers to go live and tell you the whole story... and...
Favour 2: Leave your comments on the posts I make here so I can see how TikTok is making your life better or worse, and help you improve the good things and minimise the bad ones. (Again, we use 's' where you use 'z' in America quite often. If you fail your spelling tests, don't blame me!)
Keep grinning!
Rebecca
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Rebecca Bardess
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Rebecca has written social media magazine columns for Writing Magazine and two magazines in the entrepreneurship industry.
She coaches celebrities, entrepreneurs, and creatives from around the world. This gives her insights into what really happens when you become MORE than 'TikTok Famous’.
One of the first social media influencers, Rebecca won the Ms Twitter influencer contest (beating all the Kardashians) a decade ago, and was a Finalist in The Shorty Awards, beating JK Rowling in the Literature category.
She was also one of the original Dot Com Pioneers, and her cat was one of the first lolcats on the web before the term 'lolcat' was a thing. Rebecca turned her into a gif with flashing eyes that told fortunes on a celebrity blog in 1999.
Random trivia:
She was invited to a party in Johnny Depp’s room in a hotel once, but turned him down because she was having too much fun singing for a bunch of BAFTA Award winners at an aftershow party.
She had pizza with Stephen Fry and interviewed him for a student newspaper in 1997. They’re still friends.
She is camera shy but that didn’t stop Google randomly roping her into testing live-streaming tech for SIX YEARS so you’d be able to go live on places like YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok.
Music for TikToks
If you tag me on TikTok (TheRebeccaBardess) you can use snippets of my music (up to 1 min) on TikTok.
If you're looking to act one out, I constantly get positive feedback about Falling Forward, so you might want to start there.
Please tag me if you use my music. Thanks.
