Complete BreakdownCharli and Dixie D’Amelio Talk About Life on the Internet: What They’ve Said

Staying Grounded

“It’s mostly our everyday interactions with the people around us and still being parented and having rules and living under my parents’ roof and all the normal teen things,” Charli told  J-14 exclusively in September 2021. “Everyone else my age is figuring out: What’s my major going to be? Where am I going to go to college? I’m also figuring out, well, what do I want to do for my life? What makes me happy? What makes me feel like I can make a career out of this? I can make a job out of this and be continuously happy for the rest of my life. We’re all kind of thinking the same things just in different ways.”

Staying Positive

“At the end of the day, I don’t think that anyone can kind of take this away from us,” Charli also told Paper magazine. “There’s just so much to come and I can’t think of, ‘Well, this is gonna be bad in this amount of time, because people are going to say whatever.’ It’s not going to take away from the fact that we have been able to do all of these cool things.”

Internet Fame

Dixie told Paper magazine in August 2021 that the plan for notoriety is “doing as much as we can while we have this opportunity. There’s gonna be a time where no one cares to do this kind of interview … I feel like a lot of people just forget that nothing ever lasts forever.”

Keeping a Family Unit

“We say this a lot. We really don’t know what we would do if we didn’t have each other,” Dixie told Variety in August 2020. “Because every person we’ve met, they don’t know us. They didn’t know this giant portion of our lives, so meeting people here, it’s hard to put all your trust in someone. So being able to come home and have family all around you is what helped us get to where we are.”

The Constant Criticisms

While appearing on Dixie’s YouTube series The Early Late Show in May 2021, Charli spoke about “losing” her love for TikTok.

“When you have opportunities that are so amazing but then an entire world of critiques for your every move, it’s very difficult to find enjoyment in things that are torn down so much. It’s extremely difficult to want to continue doing something that people say how much they hate,” she shared. “It’s hard. It doesn’t feel like it used to, where there were collaborations and fun and everyone was friends.”

Using Her Platform for Good

“A lot of people around my age, some younger, some older, are the prime ages for most types of bullying,” Charli told Seventeen during an interview published in September 2020. “We all need to be more conscious of the things we say about people because it can really affect them … As a society, we definitely need to be more careful with our words and make sure we are treating people with kindness.”

Ignoring the Haters

When it comes to dealing with haters, Dixie doesn’t listen to them.

“I have all my comments off so I don’t really get mean ones,” she told Seventeen in September 2020. “But I usually just make a joke out of it or ignore it, because it doesn’t matter. They don’t know who you are as a person so it’s not worth my time to argue with someone or defend myself.”

A Close-Knit Bond

“If anything, our bond has gotten even stronger as sisters because the ‘fame’ isn’t always the easiest to navigate,” the duo told Us Weekly in July 2020. “We are consistently there for each other and always supporting each other, on camera and off. Our parents play a big role in making sure that we stay grounded and keep us feeling like normal teenagers — we’re still told to drop our phones and do the dishes or clean our rooms!”

Getting Hate

“I do try to talk about it as much as I can. A lot of people are afraid to. I feel the more I talk about it, the more normalized it is for people to open about their feelings,” Charli told People in May 2020. “When you do discuss it, you tend to get more [hate]. But at the same time, there are people who reach out to me with stories of how they are struggling through similar issues. It brings a lot of people together, and that’s what I do it for.”

Body-Shaming

Charli has been rather vocal about the negative comments about her body online.

“STOP TALKING ABOUT MY BODY! It’s not your place to tell me if I’m losing weight or gaining weight,” she wrote in a series of tweets from April 2020. “Why don’t we all just be respectful and understand that we should just be kind and uplift everyone instead of trying to bring others down. I’ve seen these videos about me my friends and complete strangers but it doesn’t matter who you’re doing it to.”