i'm going to tell you the story of how i became the biggest TikTok star in the world
and that's the end of the story if you want the short version
47 million views in 3 hours. Only on social media can a massive failure be your biggest success.
I was on top of the world - but let's rewind a little
you see it all began back in 12th grade in my friend Dickey's basement.
You ready to push? Wait no no no no no no dickie why? I was going in. You left me wide open.
Get it get it. How many are watching oh uh uh two um no they're gone again.
get your ugly face out of the lens. i gotta see. you're scaring them away. We thought we could make
money live streaming but too many 10 year olds were better than us. One time someone donated five
bucks out of pity. We almost gave up but then... what are we dressing as for halloween? i vote
sexy minions. jackson you should go as young logan paul. that's Sid. she's always been one
of the guys except when we dated in eighth grade. she's an idea girl and this was by far her best
it turns out people like watching logan paul suck at guns of war .we made 65 big ones that night.
we knew we were onto something. Sid's always been good at hyping me up so she started managing my
account. we even changed my name to logan paul. it was total click bait but we didn't care.
people started watching and paying. that is until we got taken down. someone reported i wasn't the
real logan paul. i mean come on we had 11 L's in it what were you expecting. it didn't matter by
that time we already used it to launch an empire TikTok twitch twitter snap insta even facebook.
thanks to sid i was everywhere. all i had to do was look cool and the clicks kept coming
soon i had over a hundred thousand followers and sid knew how to get us to a million
tiny hands. or at least she thought
what about them? they're gonna be big. these? yes they're funny okay you just pretend you have tiny hands
you know they say about guys with tiny hands huh? yeah they have tiny little brains.
oh okay nice shot. we have to try things. and we did. sid turned on
boss mode and we never looked back. i was her business experiment, her golden ticket,
her get out of college free pass. she wanted this as bad as i did. we tried everything
we even tried putting my girlfriend in it
why didn't you tag me? did you want to be tagged? oh my god you don't get it. it's not
that i wanted to be tagged i just wanted you to be proud enough to tag me. i am. i was going to
we just didn't want to alienate his female fans i wasn't talking to you. hey it's true they find
out he has a girlfriend they unfollow. yeah well maybe i should be the one who unfollows bye-bye
but she was pretty sensitive. she's breaking up with you okay pretend you're heartbroken.
oh no. i'm not pretending. come on i'm sorry i'll tag you the next one. maybe you should tag your
skater girl instead. she's my manager. give it up he doesn't like you. karen say what. what?
post that manager
sorry. don't be that was gold dude. huh? Karens are so hot right now if we can save that footage
but we couldn't lesson learned careful filming people when they're emotional
although it worked pretty good on my parents which was part of another experiment. i'm worried about you
what about mom? who are all these people watching you making videos in your bedroom?
you see i'd secretly record them and then Sid would film me lip-syncing their voices in a skit
what happens if some crazy person comes to find you? you'll protect me right mom? of course
you're still my baby. and you're still my mom. i just want to help you make smart decisions
and be safe. my mom never knew what was going on. truth is i think she enjoyed these moments
and actually thought i just wanted to talk. my dad though... i paid my dues worked hard every day
and for what? to see my son become some pretty boy who makes money for free on the tic tac? it's
called TikTok dad. i don't care what it's called it's called la la land and you're living in it
and where's the money i gave you for a haircut huh? i got it cut just to trim see
are you tape recording me again? no uh no. give me that no don't just give me the phone
so that trend wasn't bad but once my dad caught on the trust was broken and we stopped having these
heart-to-heart father-son moments. but no big deal sid still had ideas. you need to take your shirt off
damn Sid can you at least buy him dinner first? look logan paul got 18% higher views on vine when he was
shirtless. i thought we were done with logan paul? i'm not talking about logan paul. You we're literally just
talking about logan paul i'm talking i am talking about views clicks likes okay let's think bigger
we could actually turn you into something. yeah but do i really just want to be some piece of meat
meat is good okay people pay a lot of money for meat have you seen how
much a steak costs? logan paul is a steak. yeah jackson's more like a strip of bacon
well
you know what they say about bacon... what do they say
tasty! come on you knew this day was coming. and so began a new phase: operation six-pack. i felt
like Rocky. actually i never saw those movies but i'm pretty sure there's a workout part
we posted workouts every day got fans excited to see the results
and after two exhausting months i was finally ready
so what, do i just do everything with my shirt off now? no the first post has got to be an event
we tease it we build it up boom big reveal. what if he loses a male demographic? have you seen his
male demographic? Fair point. what if you do one of those shots you know coming out of the water like
girls in bikinis at a pool you know like. No you need boobs for that.i got boobs. what if i
was a wrestler and i just ripped my shirt off. you could be acting all shy like you're getting
undressed in front of a girl that's watching you. you know we got confetti poppers i can emerge from
an explosion. i got it you know what trend where you stick your foot in your hood and you try to
take it off like you're... guys if we want this to go viral it's got to be hot
so how hot you thinking? well that depends how hot are you willing to go
i decided really hot
sid was right if i wanted to be a star i had to be fearless. so here i was seconds away from fame
i almost deleted it didn't want to embarrass myself but sid stole my phone and posted it
and that's how i became the biggest Tiktok star in the world
for exactly 3 hours and 17 minutes then someone thought they saw my butt. wait where'd it go yeah
where did it go um wait no it it's gone for me too. refresh. did you do something? no why would i
do something. i don't know it's just gone like i don't see it. did i do something? hold on wait let me just--
content violation a video posted was removed for violating our nudity policy they took it down! no!
there was nothing we could do it was the most helpless feeling
ever like someone walked away with all our money and we couldn't call the cops
it took us two days to finally talk to someone at TikTok
we tried telling them there was no actual nudity. that was not
his butt. it was the shower curtain. no one's butt could possibly be that white. but it didn't work
and so there we were - a taste of glory washed away like a sand castle by the tide
we reposted it and blurred out my butt but the algorithm didn't catch on the same
i don't think anybody understands how that works it took a few days to accept it was gone
but also to realize there is something left behind. 700,000 followers
it's not like you're starting over. anyone else they'd be partying
you still want to do this? do you?
you think we can make it?
hi uh excuse me um are you that guy from that shower video on Tiktok? yeah
um that was so funny so funny it was really cute. yeah thanks
do something. what? they're fans
do you guys want to take a picture? sure. yeah. all right give me the phone. are you his girlfriend?
uh no i'm actually his manager he is single. oh really. so am i.
so maybe it wasn't so bad it got taken down after all
i mean skyrocketing to fame is cool and all but maybe a slow journey is not bad either. who knows
there might be a lot of cool stuff to see along the way
yo jackson bates the shower guy the legend himself that video was insane
it's bryce hall i'd love to collab with you so hit me up if you're down