Before Avani Gregg would have over 613K followers on Twitter, 6.7 Million followers on Instagram,
556K subscribers on YouTube and over 16.2 Million followers on TikTok at the time of
this recording…
Before Avani Gregg would strike up a relationship with Sway House member Anthony Reeves…
Before Avani Gregg would be cast in the newest season of the Brat TV series, “Chicken Girls”…
We’re officially approaching critical mass when it comes to the endless stream of dance
clips and lip-sync videos that TikTok provides for us, but some artists on the platform are
still finding unique ways to break the mold to stand out, and Avani Gregg is definitely
one of them.
Avani’s videos stand apart from the rest due to her incredible sense of style, her
playful personality, and the creative spin that she puts on popular trends.
Her 2019 #ClownCheck videos launched her to infamy and earned her over 3 Million followers
in only a couple weeks!
Tik Tok has provided an outlet for Avani to show-off her talented make-up skills, but
are her Clown Check videos the only reason she’s so popular?
That’s what we’re going to find out today.
What’s shaking boys and girls, it’s your man Michael McCrudden back at it again with
a new Before They Were Famous on another member of Hype House.
I’m slowly making my way through each resident so be sure to sound off below on which of
these artists you’d like to see next with their own video.
But for now, let’s check out the rise to fame of Avani Gregg!
Avani Gregg was born in Brownsburg, Indiana on November 23rd, 2002.
Her father is of African-American and Mongolian descent, while her mom, Anisha, is Indian.
Avani grew up in Indiana alongside her two sisters, Priya and Shanti, who’s a bit of
a social media darling in her own right.
Avani started training as a gymnast at the very young age of 4 years old.
She made it all the way to level 10, but had to eventually call it quits after breaking
her back.
Despite being candid about going through the injury, she’s been somewhat hesitant when
it comes to talking about what actually caused it.
Looking to find a new passion, Avani hopped on the social media bandwagon in 2016.
St the age of 14, she started by making lip-sync and dance videos on Musical.ly…
… While over on the Gram, she was dropping a ton of crazy make-up images, like these
ones.
I don’t know about you guys, but after seeing those, I’m worried I might not sleep so
well tonight.
Now, as talented as she is, this wasn’t something Avani was doing to find fame, it
was just a release and a way to have fun.
Eventually, Musical.ly made the change to TikTok and the unique nature of her make-up
videos on this platform helped her stand apart from everyone else.
I gotta say… when I set out to work on this video, seeing a faithful representation of
a Deadite straight out of “The Evil Dead” is not what I was expecting
to find.
As for how her make-up process works, I’ll let her tell
you:
Couple skills like that with her relentless energy and her ability to perform gymnastic
stunts, and Avani quickly became a go-to collaborator on the platform.
But as popular as she is, we all know that fame doesn’t come without its downside.
Avani did her best to ignore the hate at first, but she eventually found herself replying
to a lot of it.
“You learn to deal with the hate, but it’s like really hard at the beginning and you
wanna just quit social media because just one hate comment will bring you down…
I still read all my hate…
I still like to comment back on the hate…
I’m getting better at not doing it…
No one’s gonna bring me down…”
Avani bounced back from the hate by finding herself in an extremely loving and affectionate
relationship with Sway House member and fellow Influencer, Anthony Reeves.
The two confirmed their relationship in December of 2019 after Anthony had previously hinted
towards having feelings for Avani.
It appears that Anthony finally got his wish, so it must have been a pretty Merry Christmas
for that guy last year.
Avani had previously been linked to Payton Moormeier with fans all over the world shipping
that romance…
… And while her fans may not have ended up with the power couple they wanted, they
did get the power couple they deserve… bet you didn’t think I could find a way to make
a “Dark Knight” reference in a TikToker video, but guess what?
I just managed it.
And hey, it kind of even thematically fits!
Speaking to Hollywire she said:
“I’m known for a clown check video that blew up.
It had 80 Million views and it kept trending.
I was known as ‘clown girl’.
Not really a good thing to be known for, but that’s fine, I understand.
I have really cool make-up in it, so it’s okay.
The fame that comes with being primarily recognized as a clown can affect your life a lot, just
ask Joaquin…
Damn, man.
Clown thoughts are deep thoughts, you know?
Anyway, Avani wasn’t immune to changes of her own…
After blowing-up, she had to quit her day job as a Lifeguard.
She quickly jumped from one job to another, throwing herself whole heartedly into her
Tik Tok career and helping found the Hype House where influencers such as Chase Hudson
and Charli D’Amelio work and live.
But much like fellow founder Addison Rae, Avani doesn’t actually live at the residence,
saying:
Avani’s also making plans for the future.
She’s hoping to launch her own makeup career by expanding her brand on social media and
reaching out to other celebrities to help them with their makeup.
Her ambitions don’t stop there either.
Once she’s overtaken all of your social media feeds, Avani is going to make the hop
to the silver screen… or at least the television screen.
After getting signed to Abrams Artists Agency, Avani landed her first big role on the tv
series “Chicken Girls”, which imdb tells me is a show about best friends who want to
dance forever… which sounds directly on point for her brand.
Avani has also already found a way to capitalize on her world-wide appeal by opening her own
online shop on depop where she sells off a lot of the apparel she wears during her videos.
So, is Avani more than just #ClownCheck?
I’d say so.
The girl obviously has mad skills when it comes to painting up her face, and that talent
alone will take her far, but when you couple that with her dancing abilities, infectious
enthusiasm, down to earth personality, and ever-increasing media presence, it’s pretty
easy to see what got her to this level of success in the first place.
And no lie, her make-up posts are mad good…
…I could spend an entire day checking them out.
And hey I might just go do that, so let’s end this video here, after all, this is Before
They Were Famous.
Hope you guys enjoyed this video, let me know in the comments below what you thought and
make sure to drop a line on which TikToker you want to see next.
Maybe someone from Sway House to mix-it up?
You guys let me know.
Until next time, Boom!