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“I feel like I can’t have my own personal life. “Those people that took it to that extent, I wouldn’t even call them my fans actually, because who in their right mind would do that,” Vinnie says. Well Nati Porizek, who kissed Vinnie, started receiving death threats from what Alex calls “radical fans” who are “genuinely convinced that they’re going to marry Vinnie.” In one prank for a video, setup by Alex Warren, the twin sister of the girlfriend of Hype House resident Michael Sanzone kisses Vinnie right as Michael is called into the room, so he thinks Vinnie was kissing his girlfriend. Without views, basically, the lives they created can slip through their fingers, and that’s ultimately what makes the possibility of being cancelled so scary for these people.īut Hype House also shows us what happens when the fandom goes too far, particularly related to the popular “thirst trap” posting, Twitch streamer Vinnie Hacker. Of course, the relationships between these influencers and their fans are critically important. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. Seemingly, the big concern for many at the time seemed to be the loss of content opportunities while all these influencers had to quarantine, in addition to fears that fans would turn on them. In the show, we get to see Larray Merritt bringing up Nikita’s blackfishing to her, saying that she “just can’t post pictures or post anything where you just look obviously darker than you are” and that he “can’t just sit back and let that sh-t slide.”īut Larray isn’t completely safe from criticism himself, with Hype House documenting the aftermath of his 21st birthday party, organized by Nikita, which he went to after apparently testing positive for COVID-19. “When it comes to cancel culture, you never know what someone might deem offensive,” Nikita says. 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. 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.

Hype house netflix show full#

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.