Influencing for a purpose
<p>Bethany Werth sits down at her dorm room desk in Lissner Hall, flicks on her three desk lamps, props her phone up and hits record. She isn’t filming herself getting ready for a <em>Good Morning America </em>interview, unboxing a PR package she got in the mail or what a day in her life looks like as a micro influencer — the type of content that makes up the majority of her TikTok account, <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@thegirlwithmonolids" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><em>@thegirlwithmonolids</em></a><em>. </em>As she sits down with a half-eaten container of noodles in front of her, Bethany discusses the process of trying to reunite with her birth father.</p>
<p>Werth, an adoptee from Busan, South Korea, grew up in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Despite the fact that Werth’s birth was a result from a rape, she still has the urge to reconnect with her biological parents — and document the process online.</p>
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