Nikolai Gogol Quotes

To be a successful Viner, you have to find your own style and be consistent. That will help you stand out from the rest.

It's very easy to make a viral video, but longevity and consistency, that's hard.

I never focus on success; I only focus on listening to my online community and being consistent.

I started on Vine because it was such an engaging platform that was the most popular at the time. It came natural to me, and I understood the type of content I needed to make on it so that people could enjoy it. I knew it was a great start, but I had to spread my wings and create something that would last forever - a career.

It's much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won't keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don't know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we've got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, 'Is this it? Are we still relevant?'

I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.

I write my own tweets.

The problem most people make with their media presence is they're trying to craft a media presence as opposed to just consistently publishing who they are.

We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short.

I had a personal blog, but why does anyone care that I went shopping for hats?

If your work doesn't speak to people, it's beyond comprehension and risible, but if people engage with it, you become tarred with the brush of populism.

Once I took to Twitter and shared those jokes, they became a huge hit. My following grew, and some of the posts got thousands of retweets. With so many shares, money from sponsors followed.

You have to be dope; you have to find an audience and reach that audience with your identity and your message.

I started making skits, and I started, like, getting more followers, and, like, my friends told their friends, like, 'Oh, she actually be funny.'

I'm like a big kid. But it's not like a called myself the Instagram King. I put up what people want to see and that just happened.

I took a break so that I can entertain my audience properly.

YouTube has changed my life in a huge way. I mean, I wouldn't be able to pursue music and do what I love each day if it wasn't for the YouTube platform and for the people who watch my videos and share them.

A lot of people think YouTube is quite easy, when it just isn't. I've been doing YouTube for six years now, and I'd say the hardest years were definitely the first three or four. You have to constantly put out content that is good just to make people come back to your channel, and I work every single day just to try and expand my brand.

I was doing some YouTube covers, and I had a decently popular blog on Tumblr.

Make an account, start uploading videos, and then be yourself; it's very cliche, but no one else can do it.

Engaging with my fans has helped me grow to more than 3 million followers.

There are only two kinds of people who are successful at this social media thing: those who are funny and those who get real.

With social media, the gatekeepers are our followers. It has opened so many doors for me not only musically, but fashion-wise as well.

Social media is kind of the same across the board, so you just have to know how to engage your audience, and you will be popular on any platform that comes up.

I've just always been making videos. And then I just put them online and, luckily, they all took off.