Before Loren Gray would rise to the top of the influencer game with over 18 Million Instagram
followers, nearly 4 Million YouTube Subscribers, a cool 1 Million on Twitter at the time of
this recording.
Before Loren Gray would become the worlds most popular Tik Tok star with a whopping
39.5 Million followers on the lip singing and dance app at the time of this recording.
Before collaborating with the likes of Taylor Swift, HRVY, Amanda Cerny, Lele Pons, Hannah
Stocking and would host her own show on Snapchat titled Glow Up.
Before she was nominated for Peoples Choice Awards, Teen Choice Awards and VMA’s and
would grace the cover of a handful of magazines including Teen Vogue, and Seventeen.
Loren Gray is a name that if you don't know it by now, you certainly will in the near
future.
This girl is mega internet famous with more followers than the population of some major
countries.
Seriously, she's got more followers on Tik Tok than the entire population of Australia
or Poland.
It's a pretty remarkable story about a kid from a small American town who put her personality
online and garnered a legion of fans doing kid friendly singing videos.
Despite her young age, she's been doing this for half a decade now and she's been able
to transform from a bedroom performer into a mainstream celebrity who acts, sings, models
and the rest.
It hasn't been all without hardship though, when you become online famous Loren had to
deal with bullies both online and in real life resulting in her dropping out of school
in the 6th and 8th grade.
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Loren Gray Beech was born on April 19, 2002 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania to super young
looking parents, who are now divorced.
Her mom a hairstylist while her dad was a biologist.
Loren is the only child of her parents marriage but she has half-sister, who is eight years
older.
Loren lived with her mom, but continued to spend lots of time with her dad.
He seems to be quite the dotting father as evidenced by Instagram account, with the handle
@reallylorensdad.
Here he often posts about his little girl and has given her the nickname Squig.
Loren always loved music, and according to her parents, she started performing in front
of her dolls when she was very little.
She wanted to be a singer but her own insecurities had her worried that she didn't have the talent.
Encouraged by her school friends to post videos online Loren started her career in social
media as Loren Beech but switched her moniker to Loren Gray as she thought it had more star
power This has caused some confusion among her fans, as they wonder if she is related
to fellow Musical.ly star Blake Gray.
Even though she once said that they are related in a tweet, they are not.
‘Gray’ is Loren’s middle name and ‘Beech’ her last name.
Loren made her first move in social media as far back as May of 2012, when she first
registered her youtube account.
But if she did put any content out back then, it's since been deleted, because her oldest
content on the platform is from January of 2016.
She also got onto twitter early, signing up as early as March of 2013.
But once again, she wouldn't see lift off in terms of followers until becoming a major
star on another platform.
Musically was first launched in August of 2014, but it wasn't until the summer of 2015
that the app found its footing and began to attract millions of users.
That's when Loren got into the musically game.
Plenty of kids her age were using the app but something clicked for Loren as her videos
would go viral and soon enough random people started reacting to her videos and making
compilations of her musical.ly videos on YouTube.
That's when jealousy kicked in and some of her friends Instead of supporting her, they
turned on her.
Some of her friends even deleted their accounts and started bullying Loren.
She told UPROXX in an interview:
“They would write awful things that I had no talent, that I’m rude, that I have lip
fillers and I’ve had work done.
I was albino, I was anorexic.
People were saying they were gonna jump me to the point where I was in the school bathroom
calling my mom telling her I was scared.”
Loren just 13 years old at this time, and she was already beginning to gain a massive
fanbase on the app.
An early adapter, she grew with the platform, and became one of the top stars next to a
few other teen super stars like her frenemy, Baby Ariel.
In less than a year, Loren picked up over 8 million fans on Musically, before the app
would die a sudden death she had over 23.5 million followers on the app.
With her audience growing into the millions, her life at school became unmanageable so
she opted to switch to homeschooling instead.
This girl had bigger things to focus on than homework.
The truth is, the bullying got so bad that Loren would cry for 24 hours straight, she
didn't want to go to school and after her parents put her in counseling they decided
it was best for her to pursue her dreams from the comfort of home.This has also helped her
to manage what would soon become a very hectic social media schedule.
After dominating musically, she wisely began to expand her social media presence across
multiple platforms.
She began using snapchat regularly, and also made pretty strong use of twitter, tweeting
on average about three times a day, and from that gains about 30 thousand followers a month.
Today, she has clocked in over 1 Million followers which is a hard feat to accomplish.
Instagram would be another major social media success story for young Loren.
She had just about 175 thousand followers on instagram when social blade first started
keeping track, in November of 2015.
She hit over 4 million followers before the beginning of 2017, and at the time of this
recording, she's accumulated 18.7 million.
And that's just on one account.
She also has a second Instagram account, at LorenXGray, where's she's built up a following
of nearly 5 million followers.
And then, of course, there's youtube.
The earliest video still on Loren's channel is called PO Box Opening number one, and that
was released on January 5, 2016.
Her next video on the channel would not be released until April of that year, but that
doesnt mean she divested from youtube.
She got together with a number of other top musers, like Baby Ariel, to form the channel
Our Journey.
The first video posted to the channel was created by Loren, and called 25 Questions
about me tag.
It dropped on February 15, 2016.
The plan was for each of the seven musers to release
one video a week, and Loren would make the Monday video.
The channel quickly gained traction, earning a peak of 17 million views in the month of
July 2016, and Loren personally garnered over five and a half million views on her video,
Reacting To Myself.
The channel had reached nearly a half million subscribers by May of 2016, when Loren posted
what would be her last video on the channel, called Dance Trends.
She would then return to her own channel, where she would continue to post a new video
about once a month.
Some of her most popular videos there include, Being A Disapointment, Reacting to My Old
Look, and Dua Lipa New Rules Cover, which has received over 5.6 million views in just
four months.
While she does not post as often as most professional youtubers, in the last 30 days, she's pulled
in over 10 million views and a quarter million subscribers.
She actually just recently passed the 2 million sub threshold, and has over 60 million views
on the channel.
Loren has a good understanding of what it entails to be a great YouTuber.
She remains down to earth, relatable, and vulnerable with her fans.
In November 2016, Loren went as far as showing memories of her exes, a video she has since
deleted.
As far as her love life goes, she was in a relationship with another muser, Joey Ksluk,
aka Whynot Joey for nearly two years.
After the break up, she started dating Juwany Roman, aka Flamingeos in 2016, but that one
only lasted a couple months, apparently because he was too controlling.
Next up was Ian Jeffrey from late 2018 to early 2019.
I can't keep up with all these kids and their love lives.
2016 was also the year that she first nominated for a Teen Choice Award.
Unfortunately, she lost the prize to Baby Ariel.
Loren is friends of both Amanda Cerny and Lele Pons, before those two would have an
epic falling out.
Check out this video she appeared in with Lele Pons which has received a whopping 71
Million views and counting.
In 2017 Loren found a new way to showcase her singing and dancing talents by appearing
in music videos.
In November she was featured in British pop singer HRVY’s music video for Personal.
Loren signed on with Shot Studios and later closed a deal
with Vigrin Records.
As for the rest of the story, well we'll have to wait and see, because this is Before They
Were Famous.
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