I want to write a dissertation on Hype House. If you get a sick day, you lose followers, which is a loss of revenue, which is, you know, your job.” “When you stop posting in this line of work, you lose engagement. I feel like I’m not allowed to be depressed,’ says Alex Warren in a confessional.
What do you have to be depressed about? But that’s what I struggle with. There’s one teen who’s about to have a mental breakdown over his decline in engagement, following and relevance: There’s stress, there’s angst, there’s toxicity whilst ‘entertainment’ to some, on the whole, it’s rather concerning viewing. Cancel Culture is a reoccurring topic, and one that puts a quiver in the voices of these teenagers when they discuss the very real idea of not being relevant anymore. No one on the show really appears to be having a good time. Whether intentional or not, Netflix effectively documents a bunch of kids living beyond their means – and whose sole job is dictated by followers, engagement and content – miserably failing at holding onto the very little fame they have.
Hype House alumni also include TikTok heavyweights Addison Rae, and sister Dixie and Charlie D’Amelio, who currently have the most followers on the platform.Ĭan we talk about how EVERYONE on the hype house show was so toxic except for vinnie, larray, chase and baron “You either have to be talented at something, or a weird funny mix, or extremely good looking.” – Chase Hudson This house is about creating something big, and you can’t do that if you’re going out on the weekends.” It’s not in line with anyone in this house’s brand. “If you want to party, there’s hundreds of houses that throw parties in L.A. This whole house is designed for productivity.,” Thomas said in a story by the New York Times. “You can’t come and stay with us for a week and not make any videos, it’s not going to work. Those who live in the house have made it very clear that it’s not a party house, so there are ‘strict rules’ to living in the house. The duo is joined by Jackass-wannabee Alex Warren, his girlfriend Kouvr Annon, Nikita Dragun, Larri Merritt and Jack Wright. Hype House was formed in December 2019 by two of TikTok’s biggest rising stars, Chase Hudson aka Lil Huddy (32.4m TikTok followers) and Thomas Petrou (8.1m TikTok followers), with Petrou taking on the responsibility as the clan’s mother hen. The stars of the show are simply kids playing house, with their respective ages spanning 17 to 23.
Kids running around, spending ludicrous amounts of money in the name of content, doing stupid and dangerous stunts – or just dancing around in their pajamas – is just not reflective of the current social zeitgeist. Most of them initially seemed happy to live together in the Hype House – a sort-of schoolies-like experience but much grander.īut I think it dawns on the cast pretty quickly that no, living in this house of wonders isn’t cool, but rather embarrassing. Throughout the eight-episode show, you gather a sense that these influencers are rather fed up living in this house together, creating pointless videos that allow them to live the very lifestyle that they so desperately yearned for.
What the Netflix docu-series highlights, however, is that teenagers bore quite easily, and the ‘Hype House’ isn’t what it cracks out to be.ĭo you mean to say that living in a multi-million dollar home with eight rooms, ten bathrooms, a pool, tennis court, basketball court and cinema, day in and day out, isn’t much fun? Iterations of Hype House have been running since 2019, where influencers will pay for the rent of these extravagant homes from the brand deals they secure (the Hype House featured costs around $80,000 per month to rent). This collaborative house of sorts is a space where these TikTok somebodies can come, collaborate and curate content for paying brands around the world. That’s pretty much the idea of Hype House use the clout of respective social media influencers to build more of it. Picture a multi-million dollar mansion in the hills of California and now dump a bunch of teenage TikTok personalities from Los Angeles into said house in the name of ‘content’. A post shared by Hype House is Hype House
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