Lil Duval claims that he recognized early on that traditional Hollywood television models for black culture were failing and pivoted to social media to build his own independent influence.

“I understood early this [ __ ] is over with this Hollywood [ __ ] and at that time too how did you know just paying attention I mean what are you seeing you see I'm just looking it's just like it's just like now like people say the world [ __ ] up but it can't be [ __ ] up if you look they still bui”