Following her time at Emerson, Cazzie and her friend Elisa decided to write and produce a web series called Eighty-Sixed, which stars Cazzie as Remi, a social-media-obsessed millennial coping with a breakup. As she explained to Glamour in September 2017, her goal with Eighty-Sixed was to create something that felt original. "I felt like portraying a candid, hypersensitive young person interacting in this new digital world and failing at it felt new," she said. "I wanted to tap into a new sector of the millennial mind and show a genuine side to the realities they're facing."
Though Cazzie always imagined herself a writer, she never thought she would take to acting as well as she did. "I never really thought I would be acting because I had really low confidence," she told Coveteur during her June 2017 interview, explaining that she found comfort in writing instead. "I would write stories sometimes and they would end up being unintentionally funny," she added. "When you're miserable, it can be funny. That's something my dad told me."
