OG: Approved - Emily Wilson
Featuring the Next Generation of Storytellers Rising from the Creator Economy
Welcome to OG: Approved—where rule-breaking creators shape the future. Hand-picked by Open Gardens, they’re not following the playbook—they’re writing the next one.
Name: Emily Wilson
Instagram: 99.3K Followers
Tik Tok: 91.9K Followers
Youtube: 7.36K Followers
Who Is Emily Wilson?
Emily Wilson tells a full story on stage, then hands you the exact thirty seconds your group chat will pass around. The hour makes you feel something. The clip brings you back.
Her center of gravity is a teenage reality-TV audition that went sideways. She kept the footage, wrote songs about it, and built FIXED so you watch a kid chase a dream and an adult turn it into something sharp and funny.
What separates her from other comics that simply post clips is her intent. She writes with the camera in mind without shortchanging the room. Jokes arrive in clean beats that stand on their own: a grabby cold open, a lyric that sticks, a tag you can quote. Each moment belongs to a bigger story, so the clip is not a throwaway. It is a trailer for the piece.
She builds the work in front of people. Small rooms, real crowds. When the beat turns, she hears it. She swaps a word, adjusts a breath, then records. The capture is clean. Multiple angles, clear audio, captions that support the joke. The edit holds when a face needs space and cuts when the song lifts.
Her feed behaves like a release plan. Fans ask for the song, she posts the song. They want the backstory, she posts the scene that sets it up. A line becomes a chorus in the comments and shows up as a button in the next clip. The audience is not just watching. They help surface what matters.
Most comics lean on crowd work because it travels. Emily leads with craft. A narrative with stakes. Original music that moves the story forward. The scroll stops, the share happens, and you end up watching the whole show.
Start with a song that grew out of that audition. Follow with the quieter scene that sets the stakes. Then a recent club clip to see the voice live. Three pieces, same point of view. You will get it in one sitting and want another.
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Three Things We Love About Emily Wilson
The album and the singles: The hour is the album. The clips are the singles. She drops a chorus worthy moment, follows with the scene that sets it up, then a live cut that seals it. The feed feels like a proper rollout, not leftovers.
Commentary without combat: Emily tackles reality TV culture, politics, internet shame, ambition, dating, and New York status games with a light touch. The jokes are pointed but humane. You get the critique and the laugh without being pushed in any direction.
Shot to travel, cut to land: Clips are framed and miked like they matter. Multiple angles, clean color, tight captions, smart crops for vertical, and edits that hold for a face and cut on the lift. It looks good, it sounds good, and the button hits.
