{"id":248,"date":"2026-02-23T00:34:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T00:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brianarichardsonsportjournal\/?p=248"},"modified":"2026-02-23T00:34:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T00:34:05","slug":"social-media-persona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brianarichardsonsportjournal\/2026\/02\/23\/social-media-persona\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Persona"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1303\" height=\"2432\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-251\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brianarichardsonsportjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40670\/2026\/02\/persona-bd-1.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brianarichardsonsportjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40670\/2026\/02\/persona-bd-1.jpg 1303w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brianarichardsonsportjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40670\/2026\/02\/persona-bd-1-161x300.jpg 161w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brianarichardsonsportjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40670\/2026\/02\/persona-bd-1-549x1024.jpg 549w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brianarichardsonsportjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40670\/2026\/02\/persona-bd-1-768x1433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brianarichardsonsportjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40670\/2026\/02\/persona-bd-1-823x1536.jpg 823w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brianarichardsonsportjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40670\/2026\/02\/persona-bd-1-1097x2048.jpg 1097w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brianarichardsonsportjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40670\/2026\/02\/persona-bd-1-833x1555.jpg 833w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brianarichardsonsportjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40670\/2026\/02\/persona-bd-1-103x192.jpg 103w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1303px) 100vw, 1303px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\">Social Media Persona<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a glimpse of my social media persona, and I honestly can say that in the beginning, I tried. I wanted this persona to be a girl who is balancing life, friends, school, the military, her mental health, and physical health. For a long time, I did just that, I posted workouts, I posted collages of me doing my favorite hobbies (riding motorcycles, reading, etc.),  going to school, and working out. I realized while making these that it is extremely hard to have this balance, and I might need to show the bad side of things. In the same breath, making the videos made me not only feel better about how I was doing balancing it, but also the progress I was making. During the past couple of months, I found out I have Stage IV Chondromalacia in my left knee, and I was born with a bone deformity in both of my knees. I in simple terms am missing a lot of cartilage in my left knee due to this bone deformity, and I have issues in my right knee as well. The &#8220;common&#8221; knee pain I had as an active woman and athlete was not so common. This cause me to stop posting for quite a long time while I started trying to deal with my new normal, I did a lot of physical therapy and I also talked to my mental therapist as well, you can imagine how it messed with me mentally to be told I can no longer do certain things like running, box jumps, stair master, anything more than a 90 degree bend. My social media persona was coming to an end, until I realized it didn&#8217;t have to. I recently started to pivot a little bit online. I still work out and post, but now they&#8217;re a little more centered around doing it with Chondromalacia. I started doing more calisthenics and started adapting my weights and workout split to better fit my new body&#8217;s needs. I will eventually transition more into overcoming living with chondromalacia as grade IV. There is not much they can do for me, so it is a lifetime type of thing until im ready for a knee replacement. The small community I have built with my persona on Instagram has been so amazing and supportive! I get a lot of workout questions, supportive comments, dm&#8217;s, and even some sharing my posts with their own followers. I am very grateful to have built my persona into what it is now, but i cant wait to see where it goes with my new pivot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for reading! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bri <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":30667,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brianarichardsonsportjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brianarichardsonsportjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brianarichardsonsportjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brianarichardsonsportjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brianarichardsonsportjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brianarichardsonsportjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brianarichardsonsportjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brianarichardsonsportjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brianarichardsonsportjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brianarichardsonsportjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}