A Celebrity TikToker’s Assistant on the Ring Lights and Mechanical Bull She Bought on the Job

Stephanie’s boss kept these ring lights scattered throughout the collabhousebecause he liked the size and brightness of theLEDcompared to other models from the brand. They were used as productionlights, she says, adding that this model was durable and easy to transport. During daytime shoots when theLEDwasn’t needed — “Natural light was definitely preferred for creators,” Stephanie says — her boss would keep his phone in the expandable tripod with the light off as he recorded inselfie mode.

To monitor deadlines and think through brand strategy, Stephanie says four or fiveclassroom-sizewhiteboardswere placed around thehouse. One in the living room became a message board for guests, while others were kept in designatedwork areasand near Stephanie’sdesk. Her board contained the week’s running to-do list, key upcoming dates, and possible content concepts. “There were very few moments when there was structure to the actual work environment because, as you can imagine, it’s not a professional environment — you’re in a house with people who are creating content,” she says. “For me, whiteboards were great because we could all try to keep track of what was going on.”

A “game changer” is what Stephanie calls thisadapter, which her boss liked because it charges three times faster than the standardfive-watt block. “They were plugged into almost every single outlet in every room of the house,” she says. “I just rememberSharpie-ingmine to have my name on it in case I found it in someone’s room.” Stephanie always had at least one charger on her at all times and kept multiple in her boss’s car.

Stephanie says many L.A. content creators, including her boss, wereobsessed withthe West Hollywood restaurantSaddle Ranch, specifically its mechanical bull. Because of COVID-19 restrictions at the time, guests weren’t allowed to ride it, so her boss would request that she rent one to re-create the experience forbirthdaysand other events at the mansion. The rental company would set up theinflatablein the driveway and send an operator along for a few hours to run each ride. “It was always in good fun and in hopes, obviously, of creating good content surrounding it,” she says. One such video racked up more than 1.5 million views.

The digital creator’s fitness routine consisted of dry-scooping pre-workout (swallowing apowdered supplementdry instead of mixing it into water) before heading to the gym for a few hours ofweight lifting. Then, depending on his schedule, he would dry-scoop again before heading out for an afternoonworkoutsession. To Stephanie’s surprise, he wasn’t loyal to any specific flavor or brand, mainly because the collab house was stocked with countless samples companies had sent. The one common denominator, though, was that they “always had very hypermasculine names,” she says, like this “Bucked Up” pre-workout that she remembers seeing in the house.

The brand did matter when it came to his preference forhard seltzer. “His love language was building these towers of White Claws” for friends’birthdays, Stephanie says, for which he’d request a case of the beverage for each year of the celebrant’s age. (So for a 21st birthday, he needed 21 cases.) Stephanie was in charge of ordering the White Claws and became such a fixture at local stores that they’d lend her a dolly to transport the cases to her car, where she’d then “Tetris” them in the back, she says.