Her intersectional analysis of the royals brings the facts and the trolls.

Amanda Matta is officially TikToks royal expert that is,if you askThe Daily Express.

This is not an epitaph she would ever give herself.

I always say, I’m not a journalist, I’m not a royal expert.

I know the same things as everybody else.

I read the Tina Brown books to get the insights, she explains.

The 27-year-old has amassedover 800k followers on TikTokdoing what she loves: providing easily digestible and intersectional royal commentary.

I’m giving you accurate information, but also we’re just going to dish.

We’re just going to break it down and talk about why this is fascinating to us.

And say maybe what everyone’s thinking, but no one wants to actually say.

That approach is precisely why she became such a sensation.

After moving to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 2020, Matta found herself without any royals-loving friends to talk to.

“I was like, oh, I do have opinions that people want to talk about.

And just kind of rolled with it from there.

Mattasfirst videoeffectively defines her approach to coverage of the royals.

And it’s very hard to find a middle ground.

Whats the last Wikipedia hole you went down?

I was researchingElizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, who was the sister-in-law of Napoleon Bonaparte, but she was from Baltimore.

When I learned about her for the first time, I was like,excuse me, what?

So that was fascinating to me.

Whos your favorite person youre following right now and why?

Its gotta beRachel OCool.

We met during a TikTok creator hangout and I have just been loving her videos ever since.

She’s a classic beauty influencer, but she employs a lot of professional makeup artist techniques.

I’ve done like three of the tricks she’s shown in the past couple weeks.

I really love beauty and makeup that’s how I got into YouTube for the first time.

So I’ve been just enjoying learning through TikTok now, too.

Describe the first post you ever shared on TikTok.

What do you think of it now?

And my video was my theory that it was Prince William.

I wouldn’t have done that initial video differently.

I’ve actually doubled down on my theory since then.

It seems like people were probably looking for your voice in all of this.

And I think that just is a testament to how I have no skin in the game.

I’m not doing royal commentary to be in close proximity to the royals.

I’m doing it because I think this is something we need to talk about.

it’s possible for you to’t ask questions.

You’re out of the game.

Side note: I totally think it was William who said that comment, too.

Have you ever slid into someones DMs?

What came of it?

And then hearing from some people that they also enjoy my stuff.

Ive created a little pocket of the internet where I’m part of this community now.

It’s been neat.

And I would not have gotten there if I hadn’t done a few DM slides.

Whats the weirdest DM slide youve ever received?

I wish I could fix you up with my son.”

And I was just like,oh my God, I’m a parasocial relationship for people?

So wild on so many different levels.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

This article was originally published onJuly 28, 2022