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19-Year-Old Vlogger Jessie Paege Teams With Hot Topic On Merch Collection

Lifestyle creator Jessie Paege is launching her own merchandise collection — and she’s teaming up with ubiquitous mall retailer Hot Topic to bring her T-shirts and pins to the masses.

Pieces will be available in over 100 stores and Hot Topic’s website beginning Aug. 27. The shirts, priced at $20.90, boast quippy sayings like ‘Your Self Worth Is Not Based On The Opinion Of Others’ — written in rainbow lettering. Other slogans include: ‘Soft Emo’, ‘Send Memes’, ‘Support Singers And Instrumentalists’, and ‘It’s Trash Can Not Trash Can’t’. Paege has been a longtime Hot Topic shopper, she says, and  she turned down collaborations with other stores in order to work with the company.

To fete the line, Paege will host a meet-and-greet at Hot Topic in Los Angeles on launch day. Ticket sales will be available in coming days. Paege, who recently came out of the closet as bisexual

, can next be seen in the second season of Guilty Party: History Of Lying, a YouTube series incubated via AT&T’s Hello Lab. Paege, who is signed to UTA, released an activity book titled Hey, It’s Okay To Be You last summer.

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Check out Paege’s announcement video, in which she talks about coming to grips with her own individuality and turning to Hot Topic as a kind of “home base after a battle” — below. Paege, who called the collection “the biggest announcement of my life,” said that additional items could be added in the future pending reception of the initial drop.

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Geoff Weiss

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