Alethea Crimmins wants you to have a good day on purpose, you hear?

It’s hard to miss Alethea Crimmins. With over two million followers on social media, she’s everywhere online.

Whether she’s popping up in celebrities’ TikToks and Instagram reels, appearing on TV, or her viral videos are being fed to you directly, the influencer’s positive messages are teaching the internet that “You are a bad bitch!”

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Her signature signoff urges viewers to “Go be great in they face. Have a good day on purpose, you hear?” Crimmins is having a great life and she’s doing it because she has a purpose.

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LGBTQ Nation sat down with the internet’s favorite offbeat motivational speaker for a Q&A about where she came from and where she wants you to go. The interview has been lightly edited for clarity and brevity.

LGBTQ NATION: I have followed you on Instagram for quite a while. And I was even more excited when I looked at your bio and saw that you were part of the queer community.

ALETHEA CRIMMINS: A lot of people were there just start following me. They do not know until I mention my wife. I’ve had a couple of people that have to let me know. “Oh, well, I’m unfollowing you.” Okay. Thank you. Next. This is not the type of energy that I wanted here anyway. I don’t understand why we can’t just allow people to be happy and live the life that they want to live, because that’s basically all that we’re doing – being happy, being who we are, and living the life that we want to live and deserve.

@ms_hdic

I KNEW IT!!!

♬ original sound – Alethea Crimmins

You are quickly approaching a million followers on Instagram. You have barreled right past a million and a half on TikTok. People love you and your message is resonating. But how did it start?

I was born with a speech impediment; I stutter. Growing up, I got bullied because of it. Even teachers, when it came to reading out loud, would skip me and go to the next person because they didn’t want to hear me stutter. It played a part in how I felt about myself. I lost my voice a lot, and I didn’t want to speak. If somebody had told me ten years ago, “You’re going to be a motivational speaker,” I would have laughed.

I didn’t really have any cheerleaders in my life. That’s why I started this whole thing. I learned how to become my own cheerleader. And that’s actually what you see. Because when this first started, my car was my safe space. I can be as loud as I want, I can be who I want. Nobody’s gonna see me because I’m in my car. So every morning, before I go to work, I would give myself these pep talks. Like, “You got this. You need to go in there, and you don’t care what nobody else says. Just go out there and be a bad bitch.” During COVID, we weren’t working so I was just at home. And I was like, “You know, what if I just record this? You know what, let me just see what happens because I’m sure there are other people that feel like me.” And I did. And the responses I got were more than I could even hope for.

People would always tell me that I was too much. “Oh, you need to calm down. Be yourself, but not like that. Be who you are. But not so much.” It was a hell of a limit. I can be myself but also be what you want me to be.

That seems to be something that’s pretty common for the queer community. Be yourself. Just not like that.

@fentybeauty

It’s giving bad b*tch from every angle ❤️‍