The Hype House is a collective of teenage
TikTok
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personalities based in
Moorpark
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,
California
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, as well as the name of the
mansion
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where some of the creators live.
It is a collaborative content creation house, allowing the different influencers and content creators to make videos together easily.
Current members include
Thomas Petrou
Thomas Petrou is an American social media personality and entrepreneur of Greek descent, known for his TikTok and YouTube channels. Petrou is a founder of The Hype House, a group of online-content creators and the Hollywood Spanish-style mansion t ...
and Mia Hayward.
The house itself is a
Spanish-style mansion perched at the top of a gated street. The mansion itself includes a palatial backyard, pool, outdoor gym, jacuzzi and a large kitchen and dining quarters.
The Hype House location has changed twice; the collaborative originally used a series of two different houses in
Los Angeles
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proper before moving to their current house in Moorpark.
The membership of the collaborative has also evolved over time.
History
The collective formed in December 2019, and includes around twenty rising or established
Gen Z
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influencers
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from TikTok. Most of its funding for creation came from Daisy Keech,
Chase Hudson
Cole Chase Hudson (born May 15, 2002), known professionally as Huddy (formerly known as Lil Huddy or LilHuddy), is an American social media personality, singer, and actor, known for co-founding the TikTok collective the Hype House, and populariz ...
and
Thomas Petrou
Thomas Petrou is an American social media personality and entrepreneur of Greek descent, known for his TikTok and YouTube channels. Petrou is a founder of The Hype House, a group of online-content creators and the Hollywood Spanish-style mansion t ...
,
Charli D'Amelio
Charli Grace D'Amelio ( ; born May 1, 2004) is an American social media personality. She was a competitive dancer for over 10 years before starting her social media career in 2019, when she started posting dance videos on the video-sharing pl ...
,
Dixie D'Amelio
Dixie Jane D'Amelio ( ; born August 12, 2001) is an American singer and social media personality known for her videos on TikTok. She is the elder sister of Charli D'Amelio. She was born in Norwalk, Connecticut. In 2020, she starred in the You ...
, and
Addison Rae
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. During its peak in membership, it had twenty-one members until founding member Daisy Keech left in March 2020, citing internal disputes with other members as the reason for her departure.
In May 2020, the D'Amelios' representative confirmed the sisters also left the collective when "The Hype House started to become more of a business."
Larray
Larri Merritt (born July 22, 1998), professionally known as Larray, is an American YouTuber and social media influencer. He produces comedic video content on his YouTube channel, and is part of the collaborative TikTok collective known as The Hyp ...
, who was already an established
YouTuber
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Influence
Influe ...
and TikTok personality, joined in January 2020, but confirmed in his livestream that he had left later that year. Vinnie Hacker, an internet sensation, joined the house in January 2021, which was a surprise to a lot of the Hype House's fan base. Russian model Renata Valliulina (also known as Renata Ri) joined the house in December of that year.
After being interviewed by
Thomas Petrou
Thomas Petrou is an American social media personality and entrepreneur of Greek descent, known for his TikTok and YouTube channels. Petrou is a founder of The Hype House, a group of online-content creators and the Hollywood Spanish-style mansion t ...
, leader of the house, popular content creator Tabitha Swatosh was accepted into the house and became a Hype House member on January 28, 2022. Sam Dezz and Brooke Monk joined the house as of April 1, 2022. Paige Taylor officially became a member on May 14, 2022. Throughout May of 2022, the Hype House frequently
collabed with Breezy Boys LA, another
content house
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. Then, on June 3, 2022, all the previous Breezy Boy members (Ace Akers, Bryce Parker, Eddie Preciado, Jacob Day, Jackson Dean, and Kristian Ramey) became official Hype House members.
Reality series
On April 22, 2021,
Netflix
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announced that they would be airing a reality series at The Hype House, starring Annon, Dragun, Hacker, Hayward, Hudson, Merritt, Petrou, Warren, and Wright. ''Hype House'' premiered on Netflix on January 7, 2022.
Controversies
On July 21, 2020,
Nikita Dragun
Nikita Nguyen (born January 31, 1996) known professionally as Nikita Dragun, is a YouTuber, make-up artist, and model.
Early life
Nikita Nguyen was born in Belgium and attended high school in Virginia, United States. She is of Vietnamese and Me ...
held a surprise birthday party for Larray during the
COVID-19 pandemic
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at the Hype House mansion.
The party included internet celebrities such as
James Charles
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and others.
At the time of the party,
California's COVID-19 cases had just surpassed
New York's cases. There was an estimated 67 people in attendance,
many of whom were seen
without face masks despite local health laws. Photos and videos of the event appeared on social media sites such as
Instagram
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. These posts drew criticism from the public, including other influencers like
Elijah Daniel
Elijah Daniel (born January 9, 1994) is an American comedian, rapper, record producer, songwriter, and author. He became popular online through his satirical social media posts. Daniel began rapping under the name Lil Phag in late 2017.
Daniel ...
and
Tyler Oakley
Mathew Tyler Oakley (born March 22, 1989) is an American YouTuber, actor, activist and author. Much of Oakley's activism has been dedicated to LGBT youth, LGBT rights, as well as social issues including health care, education, and the preventio ...
.
Merritt, and some of the other attendees of the party later apologized.
Residents of The Hype House later tested negative for
COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei, identified in Wuhan, China, in December ...
.
See also
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The Hype House (TV show)
References
External links
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2019 establishments in California
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