As fans of Amelia Dimoldenberg’s “Chicken Shop Date” are well aware, the show’s charm lies in its long, awkward silences, with Dimoldenberg deliberately attempting to make her guests feel as uncomfortable as possible while they both hunker down and enjoy some fried chicken. While that’s become a hallmark of the show, the persona that she’s adopted for “Chicken Shop Date,” she told The Washington Post, is an extension of her actual self, channeling “that awkward, sarcastic, deadpan person at school,” she explained.
As “Chicken Shop Date” has grown increasingly successful, Dimoldenberg has further delineated the on-air persona that fans have come to know and love. “Well, it’s like an exaggeration of me,” she told CBS News. “I’m probably a bit more serious in real life. And maybe not as awkward.” That said, Dimoldenberg has been doing it long enough that she’s got that persona down to a tee. “As soon as I’m in the shop, then I’m sort of like, ‘Okay, it’s time to be the girl from ‘Chicken Shop Date,'” she said.
When she first morphed from magazine columnist to YouTuber by recording her “dates” on video, she was actually just being herself; when viewers assumed she was playing a character, she decided to lean into it by amping her behavior up accordingly. “It’s literally how it happened,” she told MixMag, “people must have just assumed I was so bizarre or so weird it had to be a character.”
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