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I'll use this piece of text to expand the biography in the Let Me Explain Studios page. It won't of course be exactly like this, but I'll just reformat the information.

we visited the campus and I showed a Ringling advisor in my portfolio and oh boy did she rip me a new one I learned that I was gonna have to make an entirely new much better portfolio to even have a chance of getting in so I went back to my University dropped out of theatre for the second time in my life and took nothing but art classes for a semester I built up the portfolio and sent it off to Ringling a few months later mom and dad called me in the middle of my painting class and with tears in their eyes told me that Ringling had called and I was accepted

in 2008 I moved Sarasota Florida and started my first year of computer animation school I was in for a reality check because the first day of class I was sitting next to a fellow freshman animation major and she started doodling Disney quality drawings in her sketchbook and I went back to my dorm room and called my mom in a mild panic telling her I could not compete with these kids but she and my dad encouraged me to keep going and do my best and I made it through that first year pretty well but the summer before my sophomore year my grandmother died she was basically another parent to me having lived with our family for 12 years it was a really bad loss for us so I went into my sophomore year already an emotional wreck to make matters worse it was the first time we were working with the 3d animation software Maya and I struggled very badly to learn it I passed the first semester of sophomore year by the skin of my teeth but the second semester I failed my computer animation class despite having given it everything I had and with the way Ringling's curriculum was set up it meant I was kicked out of the computer animation major entirely and I had to wait half a year for a chance to get back in this was the biggest failure I had ever faced before and I felt completely worthless but my parents believed in me and they said I could stay enrolled and try again in half a year so while waiting to get back into the computer animation major I took classes towards my business minor the business students and faculty were incredibly uplifting and supportive I felt so empowered and by the time that I got back into the computer animation major that spring I was confident and ready to excel which I did now for all this time in school I wasn't really paying attention to YouTube and how it was changing but the summer before my senior year of school I rediscovered the YouTube scene and practically overnight became a fangirl for many creators around this time I also got into Twitter and I started relentlessly bugging the first youtuber I ever subscribed to daneboe funny enough we would eventually become good friends and his success on YouTube was a huge inspiration for me so much that I began to dream of maybe becoming a youtuber one day as well but no one at my school think it was a good idea so I kept it to myself after all I was supposed to be applying to the big studios like Pixar and DreamWorks making everybody proud anyway senior year when ty finished my thesis film and in 2013 I graduated from Ringling College of Art and Design with the BFA in computer animation and a minor in business of Art and Design at that point my plan was to go back home to Texas rework my portfolio and resume some apply to major studios like Disney Nickelodeon blue sky etc and hopefully get a job and move to California or wherever the work took me but things didn't really work out like that my parents started encouraging me to go into business for myself you know exactly what they did and don't get me wrong I love the idea of that but maybe later on down the line not fresh out of animation school having never worked in a studio before but before you can say Bob's your uncle my sister and I had combed with the name let me explain studios my dad helped me apply for the LLC and I was suddenly a businesswoman I had no idea what I was doing so with the creation of my new company I decided to make a new youtube channel to coincide with it and thus on February 17 2014 this channel let me explain studios was born however I didn't upload my first video until June 21st 2014 entitled beef we a Pokemon parody now you would think this would be an exciting time for me but really it was probably the most anxious and stressful time of my entire life because I wasn't out there getting big studio jobs like all my friends from school I started to succumb to what I call the post ringling depression it's a real thing that I've seen in some of my friends when they feel like they're not living up to the expectations that ringling put upon them it's kinda like graduating from Harvard and not being able to make it as a lawyer and everyone knows it I felt like I was being pulled in so many different directions and no matter what I decided to do with my future I would be disappointing someone my anxiety was really getting the better of me and I felt this darkness beginning to well up inside like at any moment something would tip me over the edge and I would just snap I would lose my mind and then November 18th 2014 at 9:30 a.m. dad was just gone he started having chest pains in the middle of his morning meeting with his employees and when my sister took him to the hospital he was just gone died of a massive unsurvivable heart attack I suppose this should have been the thing to tip me over the edge and send me into a spiraling depression but surprisingly it wasn't strangely enough I think it had the opposite effect there were many factors at play mostly to do with the strength and courage of my mom and sister and the kindness and love shown to me by everybody else but what I had been given was the ultimate excuse to feel sad and no one was going to judge me for bursting into tears and saying how devastated and heartbroken and scared I was because everybody else was feeling the exact same thing and that that pulling of the emotional pressure release valve in my head was what saved me but the biggest thing that losing dad taught me was that when you live through something that you previously thought you couldn't survive and you make it out okay the world doesn't seem as scary anymore and you're always a lot stronger than you think I picked my life back up and I continued to run my company which was basically just me doing freelance animation and illustration work but with better tax breaks and in my spare time I made videos for this YouTube channel which turned out to be the best therapy for two and a half years I freelance and made YouTube videos freelance and YouTube freelance and YouTube I built up a small very kind and loyal YouTube audience and made a fair few youtuber friends as well and one day in January of 2017 I got the idea of putting some of my youtuber friends in a video an alt satirical video idea that I'd written maybe two years prior and it was called how to creep out your favorite youtubers at conventions I asked TomSka daneboe and jaden animations to lend me their voices they sent me the lines I got to work and I finished the video just in time for season on May 5th 2017 I uploaded how to creep out your favorite youtubers at conventions to this channel and something happened I started getting subscribers a lot of subscribers in a very short amount of time and just shy of 2 months later on the night before I was flying out to VidCon 2017 I hit 100,000 and that was only the beginning the numbers kept climbing and climbing and by July 19th of 2017 I emailed my last client for the final time and officially became a full-time youtuber