And you thought the inauguration was going to be this week’s biggest news.
Disgraced influencer Olivia Jade Giannulli returns to the fertile soil she came from – no, not a huge privilege – YouTube, where she posted her first video in over a year.
21-year-old Giannulli starts the video with the words “This is so crazy!” Deeply undercut things titled “daily vlog x olivia jade”. (We are with her so far.)
Her introduction refers to her ‘Red Table Talk’ performance – which angered ‘RTT’ presenter Jada Pinkett Smith’s mother and made Sofia Richie happy – and prompts viewers to revisit if they have questions about her opinion on the admission scandal that put both of her parents in prison.
She then interrupts the video with an apparent edit that suggests she “[didn’t] mean to say that in a dismissive or pretentious way, “or imply” I went on Red Table Talk and now my name has been erased. She also thanked the show’s hosts for having her.
The video continues with pretty standard influencer material, with fake VCR filtered footage, soft EDM, and lots of beach footage – pre-COVID though, notes Olivia Jade in another edit – followed by a painstaking recitation of the details of Jade’s day. . Some coffee and toast is made, pictures of the dog, pictures on the treadmill, dinner, a sunset in LA, her confession that ‘I feel very lucky to even call this a job’, her skincare routine, and so on and and so on.
The entire video is a hair over 15 minutes long. To enjoy.