Cardi B built a major following with her #realtalk, hitting 1 million followers on Instagram by age 23. Some have called her a social media mastermind, but the up-and-comer put it this way in a 2015 interview with Complex:
"When I started doing videos and everything, I just took a camera and was like, talking about how corny guys are, how corny b****es are. Just doing jokes that I do with my friends. A lot of people when they meet me will be like, you are just like your Instagram video. I'm like, b**ch I know. That's who I am. I'm not trying to be funny for Instagram.
As of January 2018, Cardi had upped her Insta following to a whopping 17 million and counting, but she'll be the first to admit that she "just can't believe it. I never thought I would be this popular. That was never part of my plans. It just really happened, thanks to social media."
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