😂WTF😂 ‘Addison Rae won over a side of the internet that had once despised her’: How the former TikTok star broke the curse of her mainstream origins and bec

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The pandemic was so long that Addison Rae went from someone who you might recognize from doing TikTok dances with Jimmy Fallon to an actual legitimate rising pop icon. A mere four years ago, the Alabama-born influencer was a member of one of TikTok's first and cringiest content houses, The Hype House, which was known for ruling algorithms with "Renegade" dances and tie-dye hoodies. Now, she has garnered real pop star cred and queer fandom through her latest boundary-pushing singles. Through a seemingly honest rebrand, Rae has pulled off the impossible and courted a side of the internet that once laughed at her. In true Gen Z fashion, she has lived and died at the hands of the internet.

Addison Rae sprang to internet fame back in 2019 on TikTok, doing the types of dances that TikTok used to be infamous for. The then 19-year-old quickly joined a coterie of wholesome-looking teens doing stilted dances and making too much money from Bang Energy ads which eventually coalesced into the Hype House, along with Charli and Dixie D'Amelio, Chase Hudson (AKA Lil Huddy), and a host of other hard-to-tell-apart content creators who all also gained their notoriety online. Addison was the sweet Southern one with a propensity to put her foot in her mouth. They ruled "Straight TikTok" with an iron fist, bringing in mind-boggling numbers with a twitch of the hip.