An adorable little blonde person ventured out to the East New York home of former Gawker advice columnist Tionna Smalls to ask her what she thinks about Internet fame. "It's all a lot of fun of games in the beginning." But. "If people think you're getting more burns off their site than they are, they'll get rid of you. It's jealousy."
"Even with all the jealousy Nick Denton has for me, I would do it all again," she says. The video's at pop17.com [via The Fake Nick Denton]. But, seriously? Who is that tiny blonde girl? She's just darling!












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Also "darling": the leggy tipster that sent this to you!
@Hez: Well I don't really know that yet, now do I?
Tionna's back, Foxy Brown's out.... This is just like the time Michael J. Fox went into the past and stole a briefcase full of coke from John DeLorean.
Yay Tionna! I missed her.
Sometimes,well alot of times,there are things on Gawker that I just can't figure out.
Ian, it's because she nods a lot. Nodding is sexy. Witness:
"Do you mind if I take this off of you?"
*nod*
"What about if I put my hand here?"
*nod nod*
"You don't mind if I have another scotch, do you?"
*shake shake*
Ok, shaking is sexy too. Basically, girls with moving heads are just damn hot.
@Don Is: Stupid. I meant "Can I take this off of you?" Stupid stupid Don.
Noelle! Let the stalking begin . . .
tionna -- on the borderline between making it and not, and she is so smart and talented
Tionna remains the bee's effing knees.
I'm never genuinely happy for anyone, and certainly never for their success, but I'll make an exception.
Today, my heart grew three sizes. Still no where near the size of them tittays though.
She could totally answer the phone at 3 am.
@IBentMyWookie: I believe it's spelled "tittehs".
(Not that I'd know anything about that.)
I still miss Tionna. Foreal.
Sarah Meyers works for Gawker?
@Don Is: I gotta say, it's the crazy eyes that get me. What is it about crazy, crazy eyes?
@scarletmenace: Me too! My catbag is lost & confused without her guidance.
@seejanewrite: I don't even have a catbag, and I want her back!
@ian spiegelman: Ok. It's the eyes and the awkwardness. Notice how she doesn't quite know what to do with her Vitamin Water? She seems like this interview was suddenly thrust upon her. And nice teeth. God I feel so sexist.
Tionna will rise again. Getting ditched from Gawker is like getting fired from a temp job. It's just another anecdote to cheer up your friends as we all crawl through the creative underclass job market.
@IBentMyWookie: Re: The bees knees? Seconded.
I miss her tremendously. And I agree with you, in a world full of Julia Allisons and other useless attention whores, it does my heart good to know Tionna is out there. I sincerely hope she makes the big time. God knows I'm rooting for her.
Tionna has more savoir faire in one hefty mambozo than a thousand Julia Allisons could have in their entire careers.
Though that's not to say that JA's mambozos are necessarily lacking in their own kind of charm.
@Don Is: I think she's a pretty little white girl who found herself in East New York. Granted, I haven't been there since I used to buy weed there in 1993, but it was an imposing landscape back then.
@sassypants: I think she'll land on her feet. Not so sure about fake Nick Denton. Certain command initiatives have been sent out.
Good to see Tiona's still keeping it real and her boobs are now emitting sparkly orbs of light. The world is as it should be.
But what was up with Count Von Denton? The man has MILLIONS of dollars. Already. So why be so harsh over Tionna getting a smidgeon, a tidbit? Is that absolutely a necessary part of the whole rich thing?
@donmiguel: Back it up, Don Redski. We don't take that kinda crap around here no more. Or hadn't you heard?
@ian spiegelman: You don't got Google where you come from?
Jayzus, boy, I invited her to a lecture and she shows up with a camera man!
@raincoaster: If only that were Tionna rather than the Obviously Estimable Hez.
I was a late recruit, but she can have me. Any time she wants a Left Coast audience I will be there for her.
@raincoaster: maybe i'm too tired... but i don't know what yer talking about... and i am very tired...
@ian spiegelman: Raincoaster invited me to do a thing this week and I showed up with a guy and his gear.
There was somebody else in this clip? I only noticed Tionna. And she was amazing.
@Hez: That's the sketchiest sentence I've heard all day. Right after "it's like covering your bed in whipped cream". Aah breakfast chatter.
@Pope John Peeps II: Good. I was going for maximum skeeve factor. I like to keep Spiegelman up at night wondering about my madcap Canoodlian life.
@ian spiegelman: That's okay. I was drunk and didn't know what I was talking about either. Good thing Hez has our backs.
@Pope John Peeps II: You. Have. No. Idea.
Tionna, you're still the best thing smoking foreal.
@skahammer: Amen. Would love me a Tionna versus Julia smackdown. Style and substance (and size) would win, hands down. Tionna keeps it on the real--I miss her unique voice.
"You can't fire someone who works at home"! Thank you, Tionna, I will always remember that. (I also enjoyed "This is my hair.")
@brechtgirl: Worked. Like, last summer or something. Video department. Now she's doing her own thing (i.e. Pop17).
Tionna is a great lady. Seriously.
That would be Sarah effin' Meyers. And yes, she is quite darling.
That's Sarah Meyers who first broke onto the tech scene after getting kicked out of a TechCrunch meet-up. She has since done quite a bit of video blogging, and even hosted a tech radio show at UC Berkeley:
[en.wikipedia.org]
[twitter.com]
Sarah Meyers is the little blondie FTW! Love her to death lol
Sarah Meyers was also lifecasting with justin.tv for a bit.
[www.justin.tv]
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