Addison Rae, TikTok Star Earns Rp72.7 Billion With A Series Of Controversies

JAKARTA - TikTok video networking application produces many new talents, one of which is Addison Rae. This woman ranks as the two most followed celebrities on TikTok after Charli D'Amelio.

Despite sitting second, Rae's fame is unstoppable. Forbes named him the tiktok star with the most revenue in August 2020, worth USD5 million (equivalent to Rp72.7 billion).

Rae started her TikTok in 2019 where she joined The Hype House agency. At that time, the number of followers began to increase.

Afterward, Rae opted out of her campus at Louisiana State University (LSU) and considered focusing on entertainment. In January 2020, the woman, born on October 6, joined the WME agency. As her fame increased, Rae experienced a number of controversies this year.

Unlike Charli D'Amelio, Addison Rae got a place to show her acting and musical skills.

The film He's All That will be his first acting project. The film is a remake of 1999's She's All That and Rae plays Padgett Sawyer, an influential celebrity who accepts the challenge of turning the most bully into a king at prom.

This news disappointed fans because the production house chose an inexperienced person as the lead. Moreover, the film is planned to be shown through the streaming service Netflix.

In the realm of music is not much different. Rae released the song Obsessed and her music video on March 18 through her personal YouTube channel. Instead of getting a positive response, warganet again called Rae aji mumpung.

"Addison Rae saved my life. A few months ago I was in an accident and paralyzed until the only thing I could do was hear. At the hospital I heard someone was twisting Obsessed, so bad that I woke up to turn it off. Now I'm cured!" tweeted one of the netizens via Twitter.

"Addison Rae - Obsessed... Is this the standard of the music industry now?" said another netizen.

Aware of the criticism, Addison Rae said, "If you hate Obsessed... listen again and tell me what you don't like about the song."

Black Creator Credit

All of Addison Rae's promotions are now related to TikTok as the social network that raised her name. Last week, he was invited to The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to talk about songs and take on challenges.

Jimmy Fallon gave him the challenge of pulling eight hits on TikTok along with popular choreography. But the netizens knew that the eight choreographers were popularized by black content creators.

Unfortunately none of the creator's content is invited or credited in the video. As a result, rae's performance video was criticized and blasphemed for allegedly stealing the creativity of black people.

TMZ online media approached Rae and asked about this. He replied, "I think they (content creators) are credited in YouTube videos, but it's hard to write credits when they're live."

"But they know that I love them so much and I support them all. I hope one day we can meet and dance together.

Paparazzi

Celebrity life is not far from the paparazzi chase, so is Addison Rae who now has fans.

But the social media star did an old-fashioned celebrity way to grab the paparazzi's attention. Visiting Page Six, Rae informed the paparazzi of her whereabouts so that she was always photographed.

On March 26 and 27, paparazzi shared candid photos of Rae in New York. She is also known as a relative of the Kardashian family so the internet suspects she knows this way from her friends.

Warganet considers Rae to be 'fake' again by calling the paparazzi and photographing her out of a party in the middle of a pandemic. At the Zach Sang Show held on Tuesday, April 6, Rae spoke about the issue that earned her criticism.

"I'm always there for them, you know, for them to take photos. Surely this is always fun but I think there are limits and do they know the limits? Sometimes I don't, and I have to accept that and try to get over it and know when I don't want to answer things I don't have to answer."

This response hinted that Rae informed the paparazzi that she would be photographed in New York. The criticism rolled back.