Itsbambii

Itsbambii took the path of social media in March 2014 when she started using the platform ‘Vine’. She has also been uploading photographs and videos on her ‘Instagram’ and ‘YouTube’ pages since then. One of the videos that she uploaded is the Nicki Minaj transformation makeup tutorial. The teen’s video ‘My Real Life’ got over a million views. More than 200K vloggers follow her ‘Vine’ account. Her ‘Instagram’ account has 1.1million followers, while her ‘YouTube’ channel ‘itsbambii Playhouse’ has over 436,480 subscribers. She joined ‘Twitter’ in November 2013 and has over 60K followers. Bambii’s catchphrase is “If you are not slaying then what the f**k are you saying”.

The 17-year-old faced serious social problems regarding her sexuality since her younger days, but she chose to do something constructive in her life rather than feeling sorry for herself and brooding. The journey from being a gay male to accepting feminity is not easy any way. In one of her videos on YouTube, the vlogger revealed that since her childhood she wanted to be with girls and was inclined to all things girls did. The boys in her class often teased Bambii by calling her a faggy and it was very difficult for her to grow up this way. To survive she blocked out all the memories of her childhood, because they made her very angry. Not being able to express what she was going through depressed Bambii. In times of distress she would take out her anger on her mother because she had nobody to talk about it and also didn’t know how to express it. In the ninth grade, her mother asked her if she was gay and she blurted out that she was indeed so. She behaved badly with her mother and sister and at one time even choked her sister. Her mother found her sexuality hard to accept and took her to a therapist. From that day onwards Itsbambii started being herself. It is Itsbambii’s strong will and resilience that has made her unique.

The followers of Itsbambii were shocked after she came out with a video ‘I Don’t Want To Be Female Anymore’ declaring that she was de-transitioning and would be a male again. She rues that people behave badly with her and recognize her more as a male. But towards the end of the video she is quite sure that she wants to stick to her feminine identity. The video got her around 543,099 views.