“I got people trying to benefit off my motion” – Victoria Rose
This quote originates from WoahVicky’s poetry performance this past June at a clothing store in Manhattan. On stage, in a black sequined mini dress, she recited her viral tweets and personal reflections in an unfiltered stream of consciousness where she infused media culture with strong religious convictions.
We, Amal and Sophia, believe that Victoria Rose Waldrip is a poet. Poets capture experiences. Poets revoke explanation. Poets may go by stage names. Victoria Rose goes by WoahVicky. WoahVicky knows experience. From feuding with female rappers to refusing to leave a mall that held an active shooter, Victoria is now on a journey we feel privy to. And boy do poets go through journeys. Write and rewrite again. Blast their old beliefs. Raise their new ones. Romanticize needs and wants. In an age where thoughts are mirrored, recycled and there is an underlying need for relation in just a few words, we believe that WoahVicky’s Twitter threads hit the mark.
“Kill the thought right when it comes” 2/17/26
We get stuck in our own web of thoughts from time to time. We know what it is like to let our minds race and our doubts obscure our better judgement. I know that in my personal experience, overthinking can hold me back from living to my full potential. WoahVicky appears to have a clear solution: kill the thought. It seems too simple almost, to just stop thinking about something. The practice of ignoring negative thoughts, even by your own conscious force, is sometimes the best, if not the only solution. In order to take control of your life, it starts by commanding your thoughts. We must win the battle with our flesh.
“What shall i render” – 2/22/25
As talkers, creators and thinkers, we compete for originality. Instead of asking ourselves, what should we consume today? We should be thinking; what shall we render? What shall we come up with in sentence? In a world where we are drawn to consume, we should be rendering. We ask: What does Victoria Rose do besides render? Her quick-witted phrases are spoken aloud by us constantly, so much so that we become inspired to render our own language, our own decorated way of speaking that isn’t sterilized and trite as language can be today. In a world full of never-ending consumption, we must render.
“I am no longer talk ” – 1/18/25
WoahVicky is unfettered by anyone’s judgement. We think of the times that we, young college girls, have been depleted to the point where we are unnerved by the perception of others. Sometimes, we simply have nothing to say. The world may ask from us a rebuttal, to explain ourselves in fervor but we often find ourselves condensing long unexplainable feelings into catchy WoahVicky tweets. When we are left speechless, when life has sucked us dry, Amal and Sophia are no longer talk. WoahVicky’s unintentional irony makes this tweet all the more relatable. Through her imperfect grammar, she expresses she is taking a vow of silence of some kind. Right after she makes this claim, she continues to constantly tweet as she usually does, not aligning with her own claims whatsoever. She says one thing and she does the opposite, a walking contradiction. Like most young women, we know what it is like to say one thing and then do another. We are all walking contradictions.
WoahVicky contradicts what ideally characterizes womanhood. Reading her tweets in all their flair, listening to her spoken word, we take comfort in the fact that she embodies what we are forced to restrain; vocalization that is shameless and lavish. She inspires us to leave the typos within the sentence, slash the coherency of a thought, and to be free spirited with the sharing of our speculation. Victoria puts the words on the page.
Amal ‘28 is a double major in English + Creative Writing and Public Health. She loves to spend her free time writing, reading, and taking walks!
