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Dalia Mya on TikTok.
The Berliner has six million followers and is a star on the video platform.
Dalia gives beauty tips and sings along with her favorite songs.
It's not provocative - and yet she receives hate messages almost every day.
How does she deal with it?
We visit Dalia at home.
In order to protect your privacy, we do not show the surroundings of the apartment.
Dalia shot her first videos in 2017, after graduating from high school they became full-time employment - including the hate messages.
Dalia Mya, TikTok star
“I picked out these comments last night. I found it from the last day or two: 'You should go to die. Nobody needs you. ‹› You are so ugly. ‹› Your poor parents, who gave birth to something like that. ‹› You are the very last thing. ‹› You are so disgusting. ‹
I definitely feel like it's gaining weight all the way right now. In the Corona time. Everyone is at home and I have the feeling that because of that I had even more people, because everyone is boring and they have nothing to do. And who then spend a lot of time on social media. I also just think that a lot of parents don't even know what their children are doing on the Internet. Because in some cases it is very young people who have what you can see very often in their spelling, to be honest. "
According to the company, more than 100 million people in Europe use the TikTok app.
According to research by the financial magazine Bloomberg, there should be 10.7 million, mostly young, users in Germany alone.
The balloons are leftovers from Dalia's 19th birthday.
When she started TikTok, she was not yet of legal age.
Dascha Lehmann, mother of Dalia
“I said I wasn't going to throw them away yet, I thought that was nice. A bit of color now. "
Rachelle Pouplier, THE MIRROR
"How was it for you as a mom back then, when Dalia was still young, when she got comments like that for the first time?"
Dascha Lehmann, mother of Dalia
“It's difficult and sad and incomprehensible and that sometimes makes you angry. But there is nothing you can do. It's good that she knows that you don't have to take it too personally, because I don't know either, most people are, I think, sad who write something like that, or something is at home with them. I dont know. I also find it really incomprehensible, but she handles it well. Better than me. «
Dalia's handling of hatred and resentment: stay positive, ignore haters.
But she doesn't always succeed.
Dalia Mya, TikTok star
“If it's something against you personally, or if you say something you're proud of or what you might have achieved and then people don't allow you to do it, then it's definitely hard, I think. So, for example, I won the ›Kid's Choice Awards‹ last year, and of course a lot of people didn't allow me to do that either. But as I said, a lot of people have allowed me to do it and I always try to keep that in mind. "
Rachelle Pouplier, THE MIRROR
»I can imagine that you are still afraid: What if there is somehow a crazy person from these anonymous profiles or something. I don't know if you're worrying like that? "
Dalia Mya, TikTok star
“Yes, yes. I'm already thinking about it and I don't like to be alone too. Not even now in the evening or anything, but I think that now has not only something to do with it, but in general. But of course I do worry sometimes because there are a lot of weird people who write to you. I think so. Ok, what if I actually met the person now or something. But I'm actually not traveling alone that often.
You just have to try to stand over it and think to yourself that they are just jealous and always try to see the positive and not just the negative comments. «
Dalia has not yet filed a complaint against any sender of the hate messages.
So far she's got along well with her strategy: Ignore it - and keep dancing.