Vanilla says when she first read this, she had never thought twice about her eating habits on livestream. “At the end of the day, as long as I still feel like I’m being healthy…if I want to eat this donut every now and then, I’m going to eat the damn donut,” says Vanilla. “Now that I’m aware that more people feel that way, I’m like, wow, there’s so much stuff that sticks with people about my content that I never intended for it to be, which is amazing.”

Incidentally, Vanilla’s video deterring people from visiting certain locations of ICE in LA in early June was one of the first of its kind to appear in my TikTok algorithm. “I have a platform,” she clearly states in the video. “Nobody is illegal on stolen land.” But Vanilla is very clear on her audience knowing where she stands. “People come into my chat asking, ‘oh, do you support x, y, z?’ If you are actually someone who watches my stuff, you would already know the answer to that question. It feels like rage bait.”

I ask Vanilla about whether cancelation or the classic loved-to-hated pipeline feels unnerving to her, (ironically, only a few days before she found herself in a debacle with a small tooth gem business over a gifted service).

“I feel like anyone in this space, you’re just worried that somebody’s going to interpret something the wrong way or try to just do anything in their power to make you look like a bad person,” says Vanilla. “If you’ve watched my stuff for a while, and even the stuff that I was posting when I had 300 people watching on my Twitch…the content never changed. It’s still very much the same whether I have 10 people in front of the screen or 10,000. And a lot of people that are actual supporters of me know that…People know where my heart is.”