Far From a "Millionaire"
Along with the malice Khalifa faced from friends and strangers alike, people started to conflate Khalifa speaking about her own experiences in the industry with a criticism of the industry at large. She was accused of being "ungrateful" for the money, fame, and attention, even though Khalifa never wanted either of those things in the first place. In fact, Khalifa had only been paid $12,000 in total for her videos and never saw a penny of the revenue earned from the millions of streams.
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