With Her New Podcast and a Landmark Theatres Partnership, Film Influencer Megan ‘Jstoobs’ Cruz Levels Up Beyond TikTok Fame

variety.com:

Katcy Stephan When Megan Cruz downloaded TikTok in March 2020, she didn’t think much of it. “The first video that I uploaded, I was like, ‘It could be cool!

I could get 10,000 followers or something!’” 550,000 followers and nearly four years later, Cruz (known to her followers as JStoobs), has become one of the most prominent voices in the online film community — and she’s started dreaming a lot bigger.

While she went to school for animation, Cruz had tabled the idea of working in the entertainment industry, instead working in the food industry before running a prominent restaurant chain’s social media.

Now that she’s able to focus full-time on content creation and facilitating conversations around media, Cruz is starting a new podcast, “The Broad Perspective.” “When I was doing research, I noticed that there were there a lot of podcasts about film featuring great voices from women, but I felt like there was something that I really wanted to see that I wasn’t getting: people talking about all of the ways that media specifically can be inspirational and speak to women,” Cruz tells Variety. “Not just women, but marginalized groups.