In 2016, when the digital creator landscape was still defining itself, AOL published a profile titled “Tate Lovett is the rising social star you need to know about.” At the time, I was 15 years old — armed with a camera, an overactive imagination, and an obsession with building something bigger than myself on the internet. I didn’t realize it then, but that article would become one of the earliest public markers of the career I’m still building today. The piece was part of A