Monica Geuze stops immortalizing her life after eight years of vlogging. The 27-year-old YouTuber said so in her latest vlog on Monday night. Why did she decide to share joys and sorrows with her followers at the age of nineteen? And why does she stop now?
“I really don’t know how I’m going to do it. But my idea was to film everything I do every day from now on.” With those words Monica Geuze begins her premiere video blogs. The YouTube video, which was released online in August 2014, has been viewed nearly 900,000 times.
The idea to film her daily activities came from her then boyfriend, rapper Lil Kleine. She often sees Geuze watching her vlogs and asks her why she actually doesn’t do it herself. “I thought it was a rather unreal idea. Why did I have to film myself every day? Wasn’t that narcissistic?” Geuze writes in his book My way (2017). However, she decides to do it, because her idol Mascha Feoktistova (Beautygloss, now Vloggloss) also became famous for it.
Geuze already had a taste of showbiz: at sixteen he started as a DJ with rapper Ronnie Flex. The YouTuber has a taste for music and released her single in 2015 Let it go off, on which Flex can also be heard. The video has been viewed more than 21 million times.
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From career to hangover: Geuze shows it all
Viewers of Geuze’s vlogs enjoy her musical adventures, but she mostly films her private life. A dinner with friends, a hungover Sunday morning or a trip to the McDrive: all images familiar to most twenty-somethings. Seems to work exactly. “People don’t care what happens,” Geuze says in a conversation with One today. “It’s mind zero entertainment.”
Geuze doesn’t seem to hide anything from his followers. When reports surface that her relationship with Lil Kleine is over, she tearfully confirms that she’s over. “I’m just saying it now, so it’s out of this world. The more ambiguity there is, the more questions you get, and the more you’re reminded. That’s the downside of sharing everything on social media.”
Geuze also notices this when she is pregnant with his daughter in 2018. An entertainment editor calls her out over rumors that she is pregnant: “If you don’t reveal it, we will.” And so Geuze feels compelled to bring the news himself.
Geuze becomes a well-known Dutchman. She is active as an influencer and is called by RTL as a YouTube channel presenter Focused. In 2019, he will be the face of the Dutch version of the dating programme The island of love. He also writes two books about his life and does a podcast with colleague and good friend Kaj Gorgels.
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“Keep sharing this, I can’t do this anymore”
In 2017, he decided to no longer upload a vlog every day, but only once a week. Yet, five years later, the cake is truly gone. Geuze has her hands full with her presentation work, her lifestyle brand Sophia Mae, and all other endeavours. And then there’s her private life too, with her four-year-old daughter Zara-Lizzy and a brand new breakup.
“Vlogging has brought me wonderful things,” says the YouTuber. “I’m living my dream life, but that also comes with obligations and a lot of privacy that you sacrifice for it. Now I’m at a stage where a change is needed. I struggle with myself.”
And so Geuze takes the plunge. “From early jobs, to living together, dating Zara-Lizzy’s father, meeting Robbert and moving again – it’s so sick that all those moments are documented. But I can’t go on sharing it anymore. . It was good.”
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