No, I do not have any experience working with consumer brands. My thought process in the past was that you had to have a large following to do so. However, the more I research the more I see that is not the case! So I am planning on reaching out to a few brands and eager to hear back from them.

Last Thanksgiving I went viral on TikTok for posting a video of myself asking my grandmother to pronounce certain Massachusetts native words with her Boston accent. The video blew up and has 3.4 million views and over 280k likes. I still get hundreds of likes till this day! I used relevant hashtags in my caption such as #boston, #massachusetts, #bostonaccent, #thanksgiving, to name a few. I also made sure the video was over a minute long because from what I've learned you reach a larger audience with longer videos. I did not expect the video to blow up and for me (and my mimi) to get that much attention from it!

To stay updated on the latest trends I follow pet "influencers" if you want to call them that. They'll use certain sounds or do certain trends that are going viral with their pet specifically on TikTok. I will then most likely film it with my dog. Yes! I do have a dog. I have a five year old mini golden doodle named Bauer and about a month ago we got another mini golden doodle puppy named Leia. I also live with a sixth month old golden retriever puppy at college because he belongs to my roommate :) Lots of goldens!