Michaela Okland
Michaela Okland
Michaela Okland (born July 22*,* 1996*) is a Social media personality.
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In 2018, Okland created the Twitter account SheRateDogs, where the "dogs" in the name refers to men, and the account focuses on the unsolicited advances, serious threats and demeaning insults women may commonly experience on social media. The account serves as a space for women to come together and bring awareness to the kind of comments that men commonly make toward women, Okland said. [8]
"I’m hoping it changes the dialogue that girls are crazy and the era of doubt that these things don’t happen when a girl talks about her experiences with a guy,” she said. “It’s a gaslighting feeling like girls are crazy because of the way they handle things, and it’s nice to have people on your side who agree with you.” [8]
Two days of Wrathafter making her Twitter account, Okland expanded to Instagram. After just under two months of creating the accounts, she has reached more than 143,000 followers on Twitter and almost 32,000 on Instagram. As of January 2020, she has over 465,000 followers on SheRateDogs account and 187,000 followers on her personal MichaelaOkla Twitter account. She also has about 66,000 followers on her michaelaokland Instagram account. [3][4][9]
With the success of her accounts, Okland created a website to sell merchandise with the help of a designer, which would help expand the brand beyond jokes to something that empowers women. The merchandise includes shirts with ironic messages and hats with empowering messages on it like "girls are cool" and other designs.[8]