![]() Nikita Dragun’s controversies are a particular focus, specifically being called out for blackfishing. “Cancel culture’s used as a weapon now, opposed to a means of holding people accountable,” Alex Warren adds. “If you get cancelled for something that’s what you’re known for, for the rest of your life,” Chase Hudson says, quite dramatically, in the series. ![]() We can’t talk about social media stars without bringing up their controversies, some of which are addressed on the show. Thomas suggests that Chase not only left Hype House to pursue his budding music career, but (possibly more significantly) to be closer to then girlfriend Charli D’Amelio.Ī post shared by Nikita Controversies and cancel culture Social media users will know that Chase no longer lives in the house, he didn’t necessarily leave Hype House on the best terms, with some promises to Thomas not kept in terms of TikTok content. ![]() The tension the show tries to focus on is between Thomas Petrou and Chase Hudson (Lil Huddy). “Imagine a fraternity filled with people that have millions of followers and dollars at their fingertips, with high school drama, and like, a ring light,” Nikita describes the Hype House in the show, which also helped launch the careers of Charli D’Amelio and her sister Dixie, and Addison Rae. The money the influencers make on brand deals as the Hype House crew is used to pay for the rent and other household expenses. The Hype House is a mansion in Moorpark, California. “My whole goal with this house in the first place was, why can’t people who hit millions of other people be as famous as A-list celebrities?” Thomas, the founder of the Hype House, says at the outset of the series. What is the Hype House?īack in the day, The Real World on MTV brought us the story of strangers, “picked to live in a house, work together and have their lives taped, to find out what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real,” and the Hype House series has a similar look and feel.īut instead of generic strangers encouraged to be their truest selves, this house is full of social media stars in their teens and 20s who live together and make content together, basically living and breathing social media at all times. The worlds of reality television and social media influencers collide as Netflix takes us inside the infamous TikTok Hype House (no need to break in this time Jenny Popach), with a look at the lives of some of the internet's most famous stars, including Vinnie Hacker, Chase Hudson (Lil Huddy), Larray Merritt, Nikita Dragun, Kouvr Annon, Alex Warren and Thomas Petrou (released Jan.
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