Can I be famous for being talented is the real question.”) A million TikTok followers doesn't mean s-t. (And, as one particularly self-aware member of the Hype House puts it, “Anybody can be famous. It’s not a pretty picture, even for the best adjusted young adult. Think of all the dumbest s-t you did at 17 and then add millions of dollars, adolescent trauma and nonstop video evidence for the world to critique. They’re playing house, reenacting the dysfunction of their childhoods because they’re barely removed from it. No one is older than 25, and a good percentage are still teenagers. A number of them explicitly say they’re trying to recreate the family or childhood they never had. Many members of the Hype House share some back story of abusive or absent parents. Hype House members Thomas Petrou, Nick Austin, Ryland Storm, Connor Yates, Calvin Goldby, Alex Warren and Kouvr Anon attend an event on March 12, 2020, in Century City, Calif. His sobbing is visceral and awful, and all you can see is a lost little boy, desperate to find anything to cling to in his broken world. It’s hard to blame him, especially after seeing him visit his father’s grave for the first time in years. Alex readily admits to using social media fame to live out the carefree, blissfully stupid childhood he never got to have. After his dad’s passing, he says his mother became an abusive alcoholic. His father died of cancer when he was in elementary school, leaving behind a trove of home movies for his children to remember him by and sparking Alex’s obsession with documenting his own life. His YouTube channel is aneurysm-inducing, with some of the worst clickbait I’ve ever seen: “We’re NOT getting married,” “THEIR FIRST FIGHT ON CAMERA,” “CAUGHT BEST FRIEND KISSING HIS GIRLFRIEND!!” But pull away the childish veneer and it’s impossible not to be moved by his devastating story. But in between the fake weddings and staged proms, “Hype House” accidentally memorializes the real, human suffering of its subjects.Ĭhief among them is Alex Warren. (Although it is a genuine delight to hear the aesthetic of one teen’s villa favorably compared to a Cheesecake Factory.) It’s an awful show, stacked with tired reality show cliches. The show manufactures a lot of typical reality show drama - relationships, fights, etc. If I had to guess, this was mostly unintentional. Joe Scarnici/Getty Images for The Original Do But “Hype House,” meant to be the younger demographic’s “Real Housewives” or “Vanderpump Rules,” instead devolves into a depressing portrait of fame and wasted youth.Ĭharli D'Amelio, Dixie D'Amelio and Chase Hudson attend Dixie D'Amelio's "Psycho" video premiere presented by The Original Donut Shop Coffee on Aug. One kid nearly impulse buys a Tesla because he’s bored. Hype House alum Charli D'Amelio made $17.5 million last year, according to Forbes, and the show is rife with scenes of opulent, cookie cutter mansions and expensive cars. It’s hard to stomach the wealth these kids accrued from corny dance routines and obscene viral antics on TikTok. “Hype House,” from the name on down, should be incredibly hateable. Lest you blame the youth, it’s not even really content “the kids” enjoy the Hype House is long past passé in 2022, which makes one assume the purpose of signing onto this Netflix show was to - what else? - drive viewers to their content. People hated it, obviously, and declared it a sign of the end times. The Hype House was created in 2019 with the goal of inviting a bunch of TikTok influencers to create content together in a SoCal mansion.
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