# @thecut on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DdRqKvlmphT
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/70611357-thecut-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/80087c23d0.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-09-14T17:22:05.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Cut (@thecut) — https://gondola.cc/thecut

## Caption

quenblackwell has always been online 💻

Like many children of the aughts with a family computer in the living room, the 25-year-old spent a lot of her formative years posting. She started her first YouTube account at nine years old with two ambitions: to be a model and to get invited on ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show.’ “There are so many videos of me putting brooms on my back and walking down my parents’ hallway like, ‘I’ll be in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show one day,’” she tells samuelhine. “By the time I got lit, Ellen had fallen off.”

In her #CutCover story, the influencer revisits her online origins, explains what she's learned from her earliest internet scandals, and tells us where she hopes to take her career next. Read the full interview at the link in bio.

Photography by mar_______vin
Written by samuelhine
Styling by jessswill
Photo assistants: chadhilliard, Diego Garcia
Digitech: kilkwangyoshiparkllc
Hair: nikkinelms
Hair Assistant: theharmlessway
Makeup: michaelabosch
Manicure: nailnori
Set Design by henriqueciriloneto
Set Design Assistants: Nicholas Kozmin, sterlingjuandiaz
Styling Assistants: jcolenorton, jacknovotny__, lili._._.ilil viavitale
Tailor: lindz_tailor
Production: kindlyproductions
The Cut, Editor-in-Chief: lrpeoples
The Cut, Photo Director: nono_elle_
The Cut, Deputy Culture Editor: brkmrn
The Cut, Photo Editor: sofia_mareque
The Cut, Fashion Market Editor: emmaoleck

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