She nodded her head and became famous: who is Bella Porch, and how she became an idol of social networks
'19.06.2021'
Source: Lenta.ru
The fame of the young American woman quickly scattered outside the social network and caused, as usual, a heated discussion about the deservedness of success, in which everyone was involved - both newly-minted fans, and freshly baked critics, and self-proclaimed experts. How a girl became an Internet superstar in one summer, and what it brought her, says Lenta.ru.
Bella Porch in August 2020 suddenly became one of the most notable figures on TikTok: the simplest lip-sync videos (their heroes open their mouths to the beat of the songs) of an unknown girl just inside the platform gained hundreds of millions of views.
Rocket flight
We may never know what happened in 2016 between two residents of the British city of Blackpool - Miley and Sophie. But as a result, Miley recorded a two-minute diss on Sophie, which four years later just tears up TikTok. And all at the suggestion of one little-known girl - Bella Porch, the owner of an account with almost 15 million subscribers. Her lip-sync to the track I'm M to the B scored 317 million views - there are not many countries in the world where more people live.
Corruption came to TikTok relatively late - only in April 2020. By that time, the most popular tiktokers had already learned how to make money: in August, Forbes even released a rating of the richest bloggers who, thanks to ad integrations only in their videos, received a million dollars a year or more. Bella, of course, could not enter this list, but by August she began to compete with his figures in popularity: her account began to grow at a cosmic speed, and Porch's videos began to collect tens of millions of views.
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All because of that same ten-second lipstick to the song I'm M to the B, which was created by Miley from Blackpool, aka Millie B. A very rough track in an amazing way perfectly matched Bella's pretty appearance, and this combination brought her wild popularity : Judging by the statistics of the SocialBlade portal, before the appearance of this video, her blog on TikTok was growing relatively slowly, by several hundred subscribers a day, and then it began to add several hundred thousand people per day. The absolute record for the growth of fans fell on August 27: then two million people signed up for Porch at once.
By this time, similar videos of young Porch were scattered in all directions, and the track I'm M to the B itself became a meme. Millie B, who is no longer a rapper, but a saleswoman for Miley's cosmetics, suddenly became famous: a re-uploaded clip (it was filmed in a fast food restaurant) gathered more than a million views in a week, and the number of searches on Google containing her name or song title increased radically.
However, the popularity touched Miley only tangentially. Mass attention was focused on Bella Porch: people rushed to search engines to find out who this sweet girl was, who, for world success, only had to nod at the camera several times and smile charmingly.
From military to influencer
What is known about Bella Porch? Very little. She is 24, has Filipino roots, lives in Hawaii and loves video games, music, art, travel and anime. After posts with light eroticism in her account, pictures suddenly appear in the form of the US Navy: the girl served in the American army, in the profile header she describes herself as nothing more than a veteran of the Navy.
Bella, judging by her Twitter, has long suffered from depression, which she was first diagnosed with in 2017. However, the blogger herself assured that she was tolerating the disease normally, and urged fans not to worry. Having received excellent feedback from netizens, Porch posted a languid selfie along the way, and then wrote that she did not know how to use Twitter, conquering everyone with her innocence and anime grace.
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It is almost impossible to pass by the video of the newly-minted star: since mid-August, her videos have been appearing far beyond TikTok, and inside the Chinese social network itself, users either arrange "duets" with Porch, then seriously review her videos, or simply repeat what she did with I ' m M to the B. As a result, her video marked the beginning of a massive challenge, which was picked up by millions of TikTok users.
Bella herself has not yet learned to cope with the popularity that has fallen on her and to benefit from it. In any case, there are no ads in her videos, which continue to collect millions of views, and there are no paid posts on Instagram. However, not so long ago, TikTok opened a support program for its authors: the social network will distribute money from the fund, which in the early stages amounted to $ 200 million, and later will swell to a billion. Bella, with her terrible popularity, must surely be among those whom the platform will support with a coin.
Having not learned how to monetize her fame, Porch has already faced its side effects: users of social networks dismantled all her old publications into molecules, closely followed new releases and, naturally, found what to blame her for.
I blame
It is perplexing that, in general, Bella's pretty and harmless videos cause a fierce hate on TikTok: in the comments, a lot of users insult the blogger and remind her of the mistakes made earlier, which are not accepted in modern Internet culture. First of all, Porch is accused of racism. For a Facebook post in which Bella, dressed in military uniform, stands in front of a black co-worker. “The day I met Harambe,” she wrote, hinting at the large size of the man. Harambe is a gorilla who was shot by zoo employees in the United States in 2016, fearing for the life of a young boy who entered his enclosure. The inappropriateness of comparing a dark-skinned man with a gorilla has been pointed out to Bella more than once or twice.
Secondly, the blogger is accused of disrespect for foreign culture and history.
“I apologize to the Korean people because I got a 16-ray red sun tattoo six months ago. At that time, I did not know the history of this symbol. But when I found out, I immediately closed it and decided to bring it together. It's a shame I didn't do the research. I am sincerely sorry, "Bella recently shared on Twitter.
We are talking about a tattoo that resembles the Flag of the Rising Sun - this is the military banner of Japan from the end of the 1945th century until XNUMX. This symbol is considered offensive in countries that have suffered from imperial state aggression, including South Korea.
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In addition, the girl is blamed for serving in the bloody American army. Haters believe that she should not be happy on camera if she once stained herself with wearing a uniform and a weapon in her hands. "You'd better be killed in battle," one guy wrote on Twitter.
Various variations of these three reproaches are constantly encountered in the comments under the girl's video, and her critics appear with them in separate videos. Sometimes the girl reacts to them herself.
“I receive threats and hate messages from people who don't like me. It affects me a lot, ”she shared in one of the videos. In another video, Bella assured that she did not plan to offend or offend anyone. “I was just having fun,” said the tiktoker.
But more often than not, fans, of whom there really are many, defend Bella's honor and glory, along the way arguing about what her secret is: whether in a smile, or in charm, or in childish restlessness. Maybe soon her popularity will become the object of serious research, but even without it, it seems that Bella just perfectly reproduced the most popular image of a pretty girl who lives next door.
The story of Corruption is a miniature modern Internet, where everyone can suddenly become famous and get a portion of the hate. Even if you are an extremely positive person, enterprising netizens will always find compromising evidence on you.
