Woman Behind @CondeElevator Reveals Herself
<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">Hot on the heels of </span>@GSElevator<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"> being revealed as </span>this gun-toting Texan<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">, the woman behind </span>@CondeElevator<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"> has also chosen to go public. </span>
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Since we're all coming out now http://t.co/qaCNPkTv1z : I was @CondeElevator !
- Lauren Bans (@LaurenBans) February 25, 2014</blockquote>
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Former GQ writer Lauren Bans is responsible for amassing nearly 76,000 followers by Tweeting humorous t<span>hings overheard in the Condé Nast elevators.</span>
<span>Here's a taste of her work:</span>
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Condé Nast is, of course, responsible for titles such as <span>Vogue, The New Yorker, Glamour, Vanity Fair, W, Architectural Digest, Wired, and GQ, among </span>many others.
But unlike the man behind @GSElevator, who never worked at Goldman Sachs, Bans was an associate editor at GQ when she started the account. [For the record, her parody account came before @GSElevator.]
Today, Bans <span>-</span> who is currently pursuing a career in TV writing in Los Angeles <span>-</span> told her former employer, GQ, <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">how she became the mastermind behind the popular parody account.</span>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span>I was at a bar after work with coworkers, and we were joking about something someone had overheard in the elvs that day. I think it was a lady seeing another lady's cup of carrot sticks, and saying so enthusiastically, "That looks </span>delicious!<span>" I've never been so psyched on carrots, or any raw vegetables, so it struck me as funny. I brought it up that night over drinks-like, wouldn't it be funny if there was a Twitter account for this? And I think I started it that night after work.</span>
<span><span>But she had no idea how popular and far-reaching the account would become.</span></span>
<span><span>"I just thought of it as an inside joke between coworkers," explains Bans. "I was really surprised when people from, like, Indonesia, started following the account."</span></span>
<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">Eventually, the account became so popular that media reporters started sniffing around and Bans soon quit Tweeting for fear of losing her job.</span>
<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">The last post on @CondeElevator is from August 2011. </span>
<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">RIP.</span>
<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">To read Bans' full interview about creating a viral Twitter account, read her interview </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"></span>here on GQ >
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