The Cut - Microinfluencers on Parade

Sarita Cuervo always wanted to be an influencer, even as a kid. “I was that girl taking pictures of my unicorn strawberry Starbucks drink on my iPod Touch and posting it on Instagram with white borders circa 2010,” the 23-year-old recalls. “Even before influencers were a thing, I was always like, ‘Oh my God, I want to be like them.’” Cuervo moved to New York from Miami last year to pursue her online ambitions full-time — the “networking” in the city, she says, is “insane” — and she certainly plays the part. Every day, she posts videos about picking out her outfits, wandering through Soho, and “pretending” to be zoomer Carrie Bradshaw. “When I woke up this morning, I had lit-er-ally no idea how hard I was going to slay,” she recently told her 152.2k followers on TikTok. (She has 21.5k on Instagram.) So of course Cuervo, like plenty of this town’s plucky and ambitious not-quite-celebrity influencers, is also a Parade Girl. Meaning: She’s one of a whole legion of femme-presenting spokesmodels for the Gen-Z underwear brand Parade, whose tagline is “The internet’s favorite underwear.”

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