Laugh Out Loud, Live Life Large: Saloni Gaur on Being an Introvert, Internet Fame & Writing Her Own Future

Saloni’s content remained clean, funny and relatable, and her followers kept growing, but she saw herself evolve with time.

I used to be a lot more open and experimental, but with increasing followers, I started feeling a growing sense of responsibility too.

She finds inspiration for her characters from around her and is always keenly observing people around her, even at events and outings. Her strong point, she says, is how quickly she can create videos on news, an event or an occurrence that’s trending.

Living, Writing, Loving, Working

Her life evolved, as did her content creation journey.

She is now married to journalist Rajat Sain. She met him first in his office, and then they connected on social media.

Agar meri shaadi social media se nahi hoti, toh kiski hi hoti?

She credits him for helping her open up. He even helps her out with what to say when she’s nervous and overthinking phone calls with unfamiliar people.

If real-life conversations sometimes make her pause, her work is where she feels completely free and is most expressive.

It’s clear from the way she talks about her work and describes it that she absolutely loves it. “For me, personally, I don’t see any negatives,” she said - something people rarely say about their work in this generation.

She loves working and hopes to continue being engaged till she physically can. “I want to be busy and occupied,” she reiterated.

Her passion lies in writing, and that’s the one thing she tries to do every day. Even if her content stops working someday, she’s willing to take up writing for other people. She also hopes her writing gets good enough one day to create her own show.

In general, I want life to be slow. And a bit of fun.

What she broadly defines as fun is trying and learning new things. “I’ve just joined swimming, and for now, this is quite fun,” she said. “I tried to learn Kathak, but it didn’t work out, but even then I had fun. I usually don’t start and leave things midway, but I just couldn’t do Kathak well enough. Some time ago, I used to play badminton also,” she said.

She says she likes all these forms of activity as she had missed out on most of these during her childhood. “School mein it was all padhai, padhai, padhai. In the neighbourhood, I didn’t have many friends. Hobby or skill-based classes only happened in summer vacations, for two months. So now I really want to learn some of these things,” she explained.

She hadn’t travelled much either, and is on a mission to change that now. She’s already been to Thailand, Sri Lanka, and a bunch of other places and is keen to explore more.

The Women Around Her

A lot of Saloni’s content is based on or features the women around her, especially her mother and grandmother.

Alongside her content growing, she also saw these women evolve and discover their own interests. “During my childhood, I didn’t see my grandmother be very demure, since my grandfather was a bit strict. It was after he passed away that I figured she had opinions and dreams!” said Saloni.

She’s seen her daadi evolve, from being softspoken, to liking watching TV, which she has even learnt to use voice remote controls for.

Saloni, after her parents moved to Delhi NCR, also discovered her mother’s growing love for bhajans. “She enjoys singing, she wants to learn to play the dholak,” she said.

Despite Saloni’s career flourishing, the principles middle-class families live by haven’t faded. Her mother refuses to let the children buy her a dholak, claiming it’s too expensive, despite them insisting that they can afford it.

The women around me inspire me, with their willingness to learn and enjoy, especially at their age.

Her family is also what keeps her grounded. She’s come a long way from being the girl who created content from her shared hostel room to owning her own house now. However, she’s sure that her content will continue to be relatable to the middle class, because her way of life hasn’t and is unlikely to change, thanks to those around her. “Even if I can and want to buy them something expensive, they say ‘, Just cause you’re earning money now, you’ll spend recklessly?’” she said.

For her to even be spending on entertainment is a new experience. She’d barely watched movies growing up and was taught at home to only spend on necessities and avoid luxuries.

Today, she spends more regularly on watching movies after justifying to herself that it may help her content and her craft. But even with this shift, Saloni’s core remains unchanged. She still finds humour in the everyday and joy in the ordinary. And perhaps that’s what makes her content resonate so deeply: it’s not just funny, it’s familiar.