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“I was a really sad kid,” she says, suddenly still. “My dad left. My mom worked two jobs. The only time anyone paid attention to me was when I did something wrong. So I kept doing it. And then… it turned out I was good at it. And then it turned out that being good at being bad made other sad kids laugh.”

She started small. At 16, she replaced the town’s “Welcome to Halsey” sign with one that read “Welcome to Halsey — Please Set Your Watch Back to 1952.” The town council was not amused. Her mother grounded her for a month. naughty natt

Last year, she was banned from three different miniature golf courses in a single weekend for “re-interpreting the rules” (her words: “If a windmill is a hazard, why can’t my foot be a hazard?”). In February, an entire New Jersey Target banned her after she spent an hour moving every “Sale” sign one aisle to the left. “I was a really sad kid,” she says, suddenly still

Naughty Natt’s new podcast “Let’s Be Difficult” drops Tuesdays. Her memoir, “I Didn’t Read the Rules,” is available for pre-order. The audiobook includes a bonus track of her calling a wrong number and pretending to be a pizza place. The only time anyone paid attention to me

The first viral video? A two-minute clip of her rearranging a grocery store’s “Express Lane” sign to read “Expressive Lane,” then proceeding to check out a single stick of gum while dramatically lip-syncing to a Evanescence song. 12 million views. What makes Natt naughty rather than, say, awful ? It’s a fine line, and she knows exactly where it lies.