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It was the grilled cheese sandwich heard 'round the world.

In 2011, Hannah Hart made a video. Then an unknown delight with boundless creativity and access to Mac's Photo Booth application, the fledgling YouTuber created a five-minute segment, titled "My Drunk Kitchen Ep. 1: Butter Yo Shit," as a joke for a friend.

Documenting her hapless attempts to drunkenly cook a grilled cheese sandwich (without any cheese at her disposal), Hart's glowing warmth and welcoming nature oozed from lens to playback. It was the start of something spectacular.

Now, Hart boasts 2.4 million subscribers on YouTube, 1.2 million followers on Instagram, and another 1 million on Twitter. She has also served as a judge and host on the Food Network, presented a series on the Ellen DeGeneres digital network, appeared in Taylor Swift's "You Need To Calm Down" music video, started a podcast, acted in multiple movies, and published a memoir, as well as a cookbook, both of which climbed to the top of theNew York Times best-sellers list. Her third book, My Drunk Kitchen Holidays! How to Savor and Celebrate the Year, isdue out this October.

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Oh, and she's also newly engaged to another beloved internet personality, Ella Mielniczenko — a fact us Hartosexuals can't quite get over.

Years later, that grilled cheese video continues to wrack up nostalgia views, as well as "Who's watching this now" notes in the comment section. Although Hart has made dozens of other successful videos, plenty of them cooking-related and plenty of them far more personal, the original remains a delightful digital artifact. For many of us, it was the moment Hannah Hart became our best internet friend.

Driving down the I-5 on her way back to her home base in Los Angeles, Hart chatted with Mashable on the phone about what celebrating Pride means to her, how she hopes to help create a community of self-care and respect, what she does and doesn't share with her followers, and what being a queer icon means in 2019.

The interview below has been edited for length and clarity. 

Mashable: You’ve talked about not celebrating Pride much in the past. How do you celebrate now?

Hannah Hart: What's fun about being a gay person in your thirties is that you can celebrate a lot more and start to make your own traditions. The next book I have coming out isMy Drunk Kitchen Holidays! How to Savor and Celebrate the Year. In the book, the entire month of June is devoted to celebrating Pride and finding ways to make traditions or holidays that we maybe never had as kids.

"It’s about making new traditions."

The holidays were always a really difficult subject for me. Times around Thanksgiving and Christmas are when I feel kind of at my worst and most depressed.

So now I’m thinking about the holidays more in terms of celebration and more in terms of staying in the moment, and easing up on this kind of countdown to the holidays by recognizing the holidays that are around all year and finding reasons to celebrate them.

Mashable: What Pride traditions have you made for yourself?

HH:Well, we like to grill. [Laughter] I mean, there’s a variety of things we like to do, and it kind of just depends on what we're in the mood for.

One of the rules that we do have in our home is that we and our guests all make and serve things that we like to eat and drink. So it's always going to be some of our favorite snacks and our favorite foods and our favorite cheeses and charcuteries and whatnot that we’re sharing with our friends.

That’s what this month means to me, I guess. It’s about making new traditions. I've only ever been to a Pride parade twice and the second time was just this year. The first part of making new traditions is seeing what you are drawn toward doing, what you gravitate toward, where you feel safe and ready to celebrate.

Mashable: How were your first and second Pride parades experiences different?

HH: They were exactly the same pretty much. [Laughter]

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Ella works over at BuzzFeed, so we were able to get on the BuzzFeed float. During the parade, it's this really wonderful moment where you see all these different people that you might not necessarily consciously think of as queer allies. You see people out on the streets being their best ally selves and their best queer selves.

I really love to see the moms and the dads and the parents that are out there supporting their children, or organizations like the fire department and the LAPD that are supporting their out and proud members. That for me always kind of gives a moment to show just how many people and just how many allies you have, even when you can’t see them.

Mashable: You talk about allies that you can't see, but in many ways you’ve created a massive, very visible network of supporters, including people like Ellen DeGeneres and Taylor Swift. How do you wrap your head around the reach that your content and your role in the webspace has?

HH:It’s so intangible. I kind of just focus on what I'm doing, and focus on the work. I don't think there's much else to think about. You have to be present to do the kind of work that we like to do.

Right now, I'm focused on building back up my YouTube channel, having a regular content posting schedule, and working on this great series with BuzzFeed called “Edible History.” I'm hoping we can do more of that show with Ellen, A Decent Proposal, too.

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Yeah, I don’t know. There's not really ever a moment to be like, “Wow. I am like so famous.” [Laughter]Everyday it’s more like, “I’m just so happy that I get to do more work.” I am so happy that this is my job.

Mashable: You put so much of yourself online. How do you decide what to share and what to keep private?

HH: All I can say is I have a private life and I'm comfortable sharing someof that life.

It's kind of an easy compass for me. It’s easy to know what I should and should not share, because I like to share things that I feel like sharing. And then other things are private.

"My life matters to me and I want to enjoy those sacred moments, and the way I enjoy that is privately and on a smaller scale."

It's kind of like you have different friend groups and you're not going to all be on the same level. You only have one or two best friends, and then you have a handful of acquaintances, and then you have a lot of people that you just know, right?

So the public, for me, that’s the people that I just know. But that doesn't mean I still don't have best friends.

Like Ella and I recently visited our wedding venue for the first time. We took some pictures and we recorded our drive up.

But then, we get there and I was like, “You know, this is really important to me. Let's just be present for this. We can talk about it more later with the camera, but right now let's just be present.”

I’m not even remotely tempted to invite anyone into that. My life matters to me and I want to enjoy those sacred moments, and the way I enjoy that is privately and on a smaller scale. Then when I want to share those moments, I enjoy sharing it.

It’s like the way you would tell the story to a friend. I'm going to go home and tell my friends all about the wedding venue. I didn’t need to FaceTime them when we first got there.

Mashable: How do you cope with the pressure that comes from fans who see you as a representative or even an extension of themselves?

HH:I think it’s a great honor and the way I wrap my mind around it is to remember that it's a gift that I am the carrier of. That kind of trust and respect is a gift to me. That's something that is being handed to me for me to take care of. And I take that very seriously.

Now I know people are out here being like, “I'm not a role model.” And I'm like, “Yeah, I guess. But I'm really trying to be.”

"I just want people to feel like they can love themselves. Like really bad."

I'm trying to be the best person I can be and trying to be the healthiest version of myself and that involves a lot of self-awareness. I'm really lucky in that it's not hard for me not to share something. I’m not so desperate for the attention.

For years I’ve talked about the importance of reckless optimism. I feel like it's so important to take care of yourself and to know yourself and to honor yourself.

I just want people to feel like they can love themselves. Likereallybad. That's what I want for everyone.

I want everyone to feel like they have enough force and ownership to have privacy and joy. I don't want to create this farcical version of myself as a distraction. I want to create entertainment and storytelling and shared community, and I don't need to expose every aspect of my life so constantly to retain attention. It should be deeper than that.

So in those ways, it’s being mindful and being aware of what is a healthy sense of boundaries for you, and that’s unique to every single individual.

Mashable: Particularly as it pertains to young queer viewers, what do you hope the community you've built teaches the people who are part of it?

HH: The world is full of people and full of stories and full of experiences. I just hope to foster the kind of community that knows what the difference between their experience and everyone else and the world’s shared life experience is. And that has enough self-knowledge to be like, “OK. I'm going to stay resonant in my story so I can leave room to hear other people's stories.”

There's this great quote from a summit I was at years ago that says, “Is there room amongst the woke for the still waking?” I hope that the community that I foster has enough self-love and self-worth and self-respect and healthy boundaries and priorities in their lives that they can make that little bit of extra room to be patient with someone if they invite them into a better understanding of the queer experience.

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