This Day, That Year – May 1

This day in history we feature Charli D’Amelio. An American social media personality often described as TikTok’s biggest star was born on this day in 2004.

Trivia – Charli D’Amelio

Charli D’Amelio was a competitive dancer for over 10 years before starting her social media career in 2019, when she started posting dance videos on the video-sharing platform TikTok. She quickly amassed a large following and subsequently became the most-followed creator on the platform in March 2020 until she was surpassed by Khaby Lame in July 2022.

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D’Amelio made her feature film debut with a voice role in the 2020 animated film StarDog and TurboCat. Since 2021, she has starred in the Hulu docuseries, The D’Amelio Show and the Snap Original reality show Charli vs. Dixie. In 2022, D’Amelio participated as a celebrity contestant and she would go on to win, alongside Mark Ballas, in the thirty-first season of the dance competition series Dancing with the Stars. Her other endeavours include two books, a podcast, a nail polish collection, a mattress, a makeup line, a clothing line, and a multi-product company. She is the first person to earn both 50 million and 100 million followers on TikTok. D’Amelio was the highest-earning TikTok female personality in 2019 and the highest-earning personality on the app in 2022, according to Forbes. Following D’Amelio’s meet-and-greet in November 2019, she and her family donated the money earned from ticket sales to a special needs fundraiser. In April 2020, D’Amelio donated $50,000 to Norwalk Hospital in her hometown of Norwalk, Connecticut, to help secure critical supplies for the hospital’s staff amid the COVID-19 pandemic. D’Amelio has openly expressed support for the Black Lives Matter movement; during the George Floyd protests in 2020, she posted a video on TikTok decrying Floyd’s murder. In December 2020, D’Amelio partnered with TikTok to donate $100,000 to the American Dance Movement, an organization which helps provide access to dance education in the United States, as part of Giving Tuesday.

Source – Wikipedia