‘Someone said that all my followers could fill Croke Park when I hit 90k, now I’ve got one million,’ Lauren Whelan enthuses to us over Zoom.
The 19-year-old is staying in her nanny’s house when we chat, and clearly, her TikTok fame hasn’t gone to her head! She tells EVOKE that her TikTok journey began three years ago when she joined the app to share a video her pals at school had made and from there ‘it became an addiction’.
From doing TikTok dances to lipsyncing popular sounds, she’s found her niche to draw in millions of viewers every single day.
If you’ve been mindlessly scrolling through the app, which exploded in popularity over the past 12 months, you may have come across Lauren doing the aforementioned activities.
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