They Became FAMOUS On Social Media And It Ruined Their Lives!

lizzie don't forget to feed the puppy shouted my grandma from across the house i won't grandma i replied i loved my grandma we lived together since i was very little i had no idea where my parents were and i appreciated that my grandma had taken care of me it was just the two of us for as long as i could remember and now we had a cute little addition a puppy named max before i go on make sure you like and subscribe to this channel if you want to have cute things too i promise it really works as a teenager i always found it difficult to have a normal life i had too many responsibilities because my grandma was quite old at times it was almost like i was the adult and she was the child sometimes i wanted to go out and have fun but i couldn't i had to stay home and take care of her in addition to all my responsibilities we were sort of poor i couldn't manage a part-time job so we survived on my grandma's pension which wasn't a lot we never starved but we could only afford the basics i felt envious of other people a lot of the time especially at school most of the kids in my neighborhood came from wealthy families some of my classmates already had their own cars while i had to walk to school i couldn't even afford a bicycle this all meant that i was quite unpopular at school i had a few average friends and that was it my clothes weren't as amazing as the popular girls and i had no money to spend on makeup boys never noticed me because i was so plain i always imagined what it would be like to be rich and popular to have everyone wishing they could hang out with me one day i was sitting on a bench outside watching a bunch of boys slobber over jennifer the most popular girl at our school my friend leanne suddenly jumped into the seat next to mine and almost pushed me off with excitement hey lucy have you heard of this new app it's so cool she exclaimed while showing me her phone gosh leanne calm down what is it i replied take talk i spent hours on it last night i barely got any sleep look at this funny guy she laughed while showing me a video of a guy with blue hair pretending to be a whale i laughed too because it was actually pretty funny there are dance challenges too look she said wow i thought this is awesome this was the first time i ever experienced tick-tock we spent hours just browsing through dance videos jokes and pranks i hadn't felt that happy in a while because it really helped me to forget about my miserable life that afternoon when i got home the first thing i did was download tik tok i spent the entire night browsing through videos i completely forgot about my homework or any chores that i had to do i didn't even speak to my grandma after at least six hours of just mindlessly browsing videos i got a brilliant idea maybe i could make videos too could tick-tock put me on the path towards popularity i could see it already boys fainting at my feet and everyone wanting to be my friend i had to make it work i decided i'd get started the next day it would be saturday so i'd have lots of time to plan and experiment first i needed a partial makeover i used a few dollars i had saved to buy a cheap cute outfit and some eyeshadow i found a proper location in my house and set up my phone to take a video i decided to do a short dance when i finally got it right i uploaded it and waited for my millions of likes and followers i kept staring at my phone waiting for someone to react but no one did i decided to do something else to distract myself a few hours later i opened the app again and saw that i had a few views and likes aha i thought this is the beginning the next week at school i went through my usual daily motions i figured that no one there had seen my video until one afternoon while i was walking to class the hottest guy at school chad brushed past me and said liz nice dance and he wait oh my gosh i thought chad liked my dance i needed to make more videos to attract more followers i thought but what else could i do aha i'll have to make my videos a bit more scandalous i concluded i decided that i would make my outfits more appealing and i'd learn how to do my makeup properly i needed to steal some money from my grandmother because i just didn't have enough to buy some new outfits that night i snuck into her purse and took enough to buy some new clothes and makeup it didn't even bother me that this was supposed to be our money for food the next day i went on a mini shopping spree i bought some revealing outfits and some makeup with remaining money i rushed home to get started on my videos lizzy dear could you please cook something for dinner i'm a bit too tired my grandma said as i walk through the door just order a pizza or something i'm really really busy please don't disturb me i replied and walked to my room she looked a bit sad but i didn't care she'd appreciate what i did when i became famous i put on the most seductive outfit i had ever worn in my life then watched a few makeup tutorials and transformed my face when i was done i looked in the mirror and i nearly fainted i was gorgeous i set up my phone and got to work it took a bit of practice and i only uploaded my video when i made sure i got all the right angles after that i was exhausted so i changed my clothes and went to bed the next morning i checked my phone and realized i had gained 100 new followers i concluded that what i was doing was working and that i should keep going i continued making dance videos and gained more and more followers in at least a month everyone at school knew who i was i was becoming more popular each day chad even asked me out and after a few dates he asked me to become his girlfriend i said yes but i also said yes to connor another hot guy i was seeing so i had two boyfriends what an upgrade from my completely boring life after a few months different brands approached me to advertise for them they'd send me free products if i promoted them in my videos i got loads of new clothes which i was able to use to make myself more popular in my videos they also sent me money and i was able to repay my grandma after stealing from her my life was perfect everyone wanted to be my friend and i had two gorgeous boyfriends what could go wrong well everything little did i know that my life was about to change for the worst one sunday afternoon i had just received another hot outfit from one of the clothing companies i was promoting it was a very tight pair of hot pink pants and a cute crop top to match i quickly put it on and couldn't get over how flattering i looked i carefully did my hair and my makeup then i searched for the perfect song i could use to make another seductive dance video when i found it i recorded my dance and uploaded it before i reviewed the video this is definitely going to get me more followers and likes i said while smiling i put my phone down for a while and i went to do something else afterwards i decided i should get changed shower and go to sleep it wasn't until i took off the pants that i realized they had completely ripped in the back oh my gosh did this happen during my dance i guess i grabbed my phone and saw tons of notifications i opened tik tok and saw 5 000 new followers and 10 000 likes i watched the video i uploaded it was awesome in the beginning but as i turned around to do some sort of split the pants tore and my ugly underwear was almost completely exposed i was wearing my most unflattering pair they were old discolored and even had some holes i wanted to cry i deleted the video but it was too late many people had already taken screen recordings and were sharing among themselves on whatsapp and other platforms someone had even uploaded my video to instagram the next day at school was a complete disaster as soon as i walked in someone pointed at me and shouted hey it's the granny panty girl everyone turned around and laughed at me i went to my class and sat in my usual seat at the front i tried to bury my head in a book so no one would notice me that didn't work at all because soon i felt something hit my shoulder i turned around and everyone started throwing rolled up balls of paper at me why are you doing this to me i screamed you're just a loser who is trying to become popular you have all these cool outfits and awesome makeup but you can't even afford some proper underwear said jennifer who had been really upset with me since i became more popular than her yeah ew granny panties seriously i'm too embarrassed to be your boyfriend any longer laugh chad while he pulled jennifer close toward him you're her boyfriend i thought she was with connor said leanne who was supposed to be my friend now they both would know that i was playing them anyway we still care about you we all came together to collect this donation for you jennifer continued while holding chad's hand she walked up to me and gave me a huge gift bag when i opened it it was full of new panties we like to help the less fortunate she smirked everyone continued laughing at me and making hurtful remarks i was so sad that i picked up my backpack and ran all the way home as i barged through the front door to my house i burst into tears sweetie what's wrong asked my grandma everything is wrong i can never go back there i can never show my face in public again i continued crying and ran to my room and locked the door i couldn't explain to her she'd never understand i picked up my phone and deleted my tick tock account i spent an entire week in my room trying to figure out what to do i was mostly clueless after a few days i decided to go to the mall to cheer myself up as i walked to my favorite makeup store a little boy tugged at his mother's arm and said mommy look it's a granny panty girl instead of correcting him she laughed too it seemed that everyone knew who i was and there was nowhere i could go to escape the ridicule the image with my awful underwear was everywhere people had made all sorts of memes and funny remix videos well they thought it was funny i found it all so devastating i felt disappointed that i had worked so hard to gain so many followers and so much popularity and in a second it was all gone and my perfect life was about to be worse than it originally was i begged my grandma to find a way for us to move to another state so i could start all over i could completely change my appearance and go to another school where i could start over unfortunately we could not afford it i wasn't making any more money from tick tock and we had no savings i had to go back to school to face the shame of it all i went back to being the unpopular girl that nobody wanted to be around i went from two boyfriends to zero i didn't even have friends anymore tick tock ruined my life growing up all i wanted was to be famous i spent hours and hours every single day on instagram watching these perfect gorgeous women post the most amazing pictures every single one of their picks had hundreds if not thousands of comments and emojis i was so jealous of them they had everything i wished i could and they looked exactly the way i wanted to look you see growing up well i was a bit chubby that's kind of a lie though i wasn't just chubby i was really large i hate the word fat but it would fit me well everyone in my family was super thin and pretty mom would always say things like honey i just know there's a beautiful girl hidden beneath all that skin and extra fat the worst part she would smile at me and pretend that she was only trying to be thoughtful so yeah my family didn't exactly help me with my self-confidence to them physical appearance was important and i could tell that my parents are sort of embarrassed about introducing me as their daughter but before we move on like this video hit the subscribe button and activate the notification bell this will let you live 20 amazing years longer trust me it works mom had tried to convince me to go on a diet plenty of times but you see i didn't have the willpower to actually go through with it sure i'd start eating healthier on monday but by friday i was already ordering a large pizza with extra pepperoni dad would make hurtful jokes about my weight as well i would tell my daughter she needs to lose some weight my dad joked around often when we were out in public but she already has enough on her plate and then to make it worse he'd end the pun with an annoying get it get it now honestly i think he believed it was just innocent fun and that he wasn't harming anyone but i cried myself to sleep so many nights i can't even remember any longer so yeah i was kind of a mess growing up also the fact that my older sisters were all stunning didn't help at all i spent all of those hours locked in my bedroom browsing through my instagram feed imagining that i'm all those beautiful women instead of my chubby self it made me feel ways that i didn't feel like feeling and over time i might have become a bit obsessed with my favorite ig models to be perfectly honest i know i know i should have learned to love myself but i just couldn't do it i wanted to be like those models i wanted the attention i wanted so badly to be famous i can't even add up all the hours i wasted doing nothing staring idly at the screen living vicariously through these women's ig feeds and i also remember how cool and amusing their captions were that was really half of the importance of their pictures with a bad caption even the best photo could be completely ignored you know i wanted to be as beautiful as cool and creative as all of them finally though something happened that finally pushed me over the edge i couldn't believe it when no one and i mean absolutely no one asked me to go to prom with them even the most unpopular girls at school had a date for it i was either going to have to go stag or stay at home i decided to save myself the embarrassment that night feeling miserable and pathetic i knew everyone was enjoying the prom and the music everyone was dancing and kissing but i oh no i was sitting in front of my laptop browsing through instagram and eating spoonfuls of ice cream that was when i hit rock bottom i saw my reflection on my laptop screen and i decided that i didn't want to be this way any longer i wanted to be pretty and thin and popular and this time i wouldn't give up after two or three days i was going to get into my summer body and look as amazing as my older sisters or even better so i began following a lot of ig models and read about the diets and exercises they swore by when i found one i thought would fit my style i stuck with it for good every single morning i went out for a run actually i ran everywhere if i had to get to school i jogged there instead of taking the bus if my mom was taking me to the mall i also ran and if the place was too far i used my bike instead at some point i went months and months without getting on any kind of fuel-based vehicle at all i also refused to eat anything that was fried and limited my meals to veggies lean meats and from time to time a bit of carb to balance things out still i never had cake or cookies or bread if i eat noodles i made sure there were far more veggies on the plate than pasta believe me when i say that it wasn't easy at all i wanted to eat handfuls of candies or a big bar of chocolate every single day but i refused to do so i allowed myself a single cheat day per month and saved it for super special occasions like my birthday or a big party the rest of the year i never slipped even a bit from my diet i was finally determined to be beautiful and slender and that's what i would attain my mom was so proud of this newfound determination but i wasn't too thrilled about her encouragement i didn't think it was okay for her to only approve of me when i looked thin you know now when i began feeling like my body was looking different i decided to post my first picture on instagram it was a before after pick showing how i looked when i first began the diet there was only one big problem i couldn't think of what caption to use for my picture after spending so much time on social media i had come to realize how vital having the ideal caption was i think i must have spent an hour thinking about different alternatives and every single one of them seemed so silly no none of them worked researching my problem i came along with this incredible app called captions now honestly i was sort of skeptical about it a friend of mine recommended it to me and i was desperate enough to give it a try imagine my surprise when i noticed that there were tons and tons of captions to choose from at first i kept trying to come up with captions on my own but i just wasn't good at it i'd always open the captions now app and find the ideal alternative in time i stopped struggling with the decision completely and immediately opened the app whenever i had a new picture to upload on my feed i also posted pictures of what i ate and me exercising and people loved it the captions i used helped boost my popularity within a month i had over 30k followers and i couldn't believe it so i kept on working super hard and gaining experience dealing with my instagram fans so i began working super hard and gaining experience dealing with my instagram fans i began realizing what they fancied the most and what kind of pictures got the most comments i was even sponsored by a few brands and that allowed me to make a great living which was also great i never stopped using that wonderful app though captions now saved me a lot of time and made uploading my picks that much easier now as much as i loved loved loved being famous there were some downfalls to it i was kind of naive before and sort of expected that it would all be flowers and candy but boy was i wrong i bet you must be wondering what my name is i can't tell you i'm sorry sure i'd love some new followers but after some nasty experiences i've learned to value my privacy a bit more i wanted to get the story out of my chest but i don't want the wrong kind of crowd to associate this video with me because there are good respectful fans and then well then we have the creeps and boy do the creeps ruin the experience for everyone else i have become so weary of actually meeting fans because of a few bad apples at first i began noticing that guys would stare me while i worked out at the gym i didn't know if they thought i was hot or if they recognized me from instagram one way or another it was sort of flattering at first but after a while i began to feel uncomfortable because they weren't just looking at me like a normal guy would you know a quick appreciative look they were staring gawking leering it was so weird and i didn't know if i should say something about it or ignore them i was in a great shape and was very proud of the results of all my hard work so i did like guys hitting on me and appreciating my looks you know but not in a disrespectful or creepy way then there were the obsessive fans online guys who'd bombard my dm box with a ridiculous amount of messages when i blocked them they created a new account and told me something like oh instagram must be messing up i think the system accidentally blocked me um no i blocked you because you were sending me explicit and disgusting messages and pics i didn't want to see any of that you know there was this one guy who was even worse than all the rest most fans gave up after a while if i ignored them they tended to accept the fact that i wasn't interested after a few months this guy he kept on insisting for over two years then the worst happened i began seeing him everywhere i went at first i didn't realize it was him after all i had never met this deranged fan when i began to see the same guy no matter where i was i checked my feet and added two and two i tried to change the supermarket and bank i frequented but he still popped up there tired of him constantly being my shadow i decided to confront him i asked this guy why he was following me around and he played dumb do you know what he said oh it's just a coincidence i'm not following you or anything i didn't believe him of course and began documenting every single time he accidentally ran into me it was every single day as if he had nothing else to do but wait for me to step outside my door eventually i had enough evidence to ask for a restraining order and the judge agreed to it this didn't really discourage my stalker but at least i could call the police on him he keeps claiming that it's all some big understanding it's all just a coincidence he tells the police every single time i'm starting to really freak out as i don't know how far he'll take things that's why i decided not to share my name in this video so that's story about how i became instagram famous which was really cool and allowed me to earn a living doing what i love it also improved my confidence massively but well fame also has downsides i just want people to know that it's not always worth it if i could do it all over again i'm not sure i would have made the same decisions thanks for watching what would you do if a creepy guy kept following you around wherever you go let us know in the comments please don't forget to subscribe and check out the other videos on the channel hi i know i should introduce myself but i think it's better to remain anonymous after everything that happened to me i don't want this video to be blocked just like my tick tock account was you see i'm only 12 years old but i'm already super famous online if i told you my name you would surely recognize it so let's just say i'm called megan because it's odd for you to be sitting there listening to my story without any name to call me by so you are probably wondering why a 12 year old's account was banned from tick tock and how i lost all my following if i was so big let me tell you about it really it's not easy talking about this because i'm still a bit heartbroken i had tasted fame and now it's all been taken away from me at first i used the app just to watch other people's accounts i found it to be the coolest thing in the world i was online almost every waking hour i even began using it back when it was called musically in the beginning i didn't even upload any videos myself i was too shy to do it i wondered if people would mock me so i just limited myself to watching other users it was so much fun and people were so incredibly talented i wondered how they could post all those fun videos and how they got so talented i wanted to be just like them now i know that it's not easy being that good so i eventually decided to try and post my very first video it was a mess a big mess believe me i wasn't too talented at all and no one watched it i couldn't blame them since it was really bad why would anyone be interested in my account when there were so many amazing creators out there i was determined to become famous and be as cool as all the people i admired this would take a lot of hard work but i knew i could do it i set my mind on it and began practicing every single day for hours and hours i'd play videos i thought were great over and over again in an endless loop then i'd mimic their dance moves and the way they sing i would practice in front of the mirror in the school hallways on my way home there wasn't a single moment of the day in which i didn't think about tick-tock yes yes i know i sound like i was obsessed i'm not going to lie i really was to me this app was everything i could become super famous and live off my talents instead of getting a real job that sounded so great i also began to think about fun new ideas i asked myself what i'd love to see in a video and then scribbled it down in a notebook i carried around everywhere i went in all honesty i stopped doing my homework and caring about anything else in my life i did really poorly at school and my parents became super worried they asked me what was going on and why i didn't seem to be interested in the hobbies i used to adore i told them they wouldn't understand how could they when neither my mom nor my dad even knew what tick-tock was i noticed how popular some users were getting people like charlie dimillio and her sister there were so many famous tick-tockers and i was sure they were earning lots and lots of money i would analyze their videos constantly and take notes about what made them so cool when i got better at dancing i decided it was time to upload new videos of my own i began mimicking other famous tic-tockers dancing moves and i immediately began getting lots of viewers people thought i was so cool and that i was so talented i decided not to delete my first few videos so everyone commented on how much i had improved everyone wanted to know how i had gotten so good so fast of course i didn't tell them that i practiced for hours and hours every single day i didn't want them to know i was super obsessed instead i played it cool and pretended that i was just naturally talented i told them that the first videos were a joke they all thought i was the coolest girl online and i was only 12 years old that was so amazing i began getting millions and millions of views and followers people watched my every video obsessively just like i had done with other popular users back when i was just another nobody surely by now you are wondering who i am i told you before i simply can't tell you my real name just call me megan if i tell you who i am maybe my new tick tock will get taken down and i don't want this happening all over again losing my voice once was already terrible i can't have it happen twice it would get me so sad i wasn't merely famous online mind you people recognized me at my school they all ran up to me whenever i walked into the building or into the classroom they asked me lots of questions i felt like i was being hounded by the paparazzi it was so cool soon i became the most popular girl at school even older students wanted to hang out with me everyone wanted to be my friend and they brought me all kinds of gifts people would ask me if they could appear in a few of my videos alongside me but i always refused i didn't want to share the spotlight after all i always had a good excuse to say no of course i couldn't admit that i was worried someone might outshine me it became super stressful to balance my regular life and my fame believe me when i say that i began doing even worse at school my parents were at their wits end they didn't know what to do about me and nothing they said affected me at all i soon realized that most of the new friends i was making were really fake they only wanted to be close to me because of my popularity they didn't care about my feelings or my problems when i asked them to help me study so that my grades would go up they tried to convince me to make another video or go out shopping it was getting so crazy and out of control i mean i was just 12 and people began recognizing me on the street my parents didn't like this one bit they were worried someone would end up hurting me my account was blowing up there were so many viewers and my fans were very supportive people really liked what i was doing it was amazing to be that popular and everyone seemed to love me sure there were a few haters but that was something that came with fame and i kind of liked it as well i was a bit out of control to be perfectly honest then one day the worst happened when i tried to open the app i noticed i had been locked out it was so weird i didn't understand what on earth was going on at first i thought that it was simply a mistake and that i would be able to get online on another phone but no it kept on lagging it was so weird i got all these different types of errors eventually i decided to send an inquiry to the app's developers and decided i needed to wait for their reply after all there didn't seem to be anything else i could do i thought it was just a mistake or something like that until my best friend called me she was freaking out and i asked her what was going on casey my friend explained that my account had been deleted and that she couldn't access any of my videos i didn't appear anywhere at all i didn't understand how that was even possible my account had basically disappeared completely the previous night i had been able to upload a video no problem and now i wasn't even in the app at all after doing some research i realized that for some reason my account had been banned that's why it wasn't showing up i was sure it had been some kind of silly mistake so i waited for the reply of the app's administrators the response took two whole weeks to arrive i was freaking out by then and had sent them a lot of new emails i tried creating a new account but it didn't work either i was so worried and i didn't understand how this could be happening i expected it all to be solved super quickly but no it was the complete opposite when i got their email they explained that i had been banned because i lied during my registration imagine my shock when i read what they told me apparently i had to be 13 or older to use the app since i was just 12 i lied and said that i was a year older and just opened an account with false information i was devastated all my followers were gone overnight i couldn't understand why they were targeting me after all there were lots of kids doing the same thing i did the internet is filled with people that lie about their identity it was so unfair i was so angry and tried to argue with them they refused to change their minds though and the account remained blocked i couldn't get online and no one could see my videos either the decision was final at school things got bad as well all the people who had pretended to be my friends began turning their backs on me now that i wasn't popular any longer they weren't interested in hanging out with me i felt so lonely but at least i discovered who my true friends were casey of course stayed by my side all through this mess i finally told my parents what was going on and they got me a tutor to help me catch up with my classmates my grades were slowly improving and i believe i've learned my lesson i still want to be famous but now i know i have to be way more careful about it when i turn 13 i'll be opening my account again they won't be able to close it down since i'll really have the right age to register then but i won't let myself become so obsessed again this time i'll balance my study time and my tick tock time much more wisely my parents promised they'd help me so that i keep getting good grades and making money they don't quite understand why being popular is so important for me but they are trying to get to know me better i love finally being able to get along with them i didn't realize how much i missed being able to talk to them without getting into a screaming match honestly i hope that when i get back online my fan base will come back as well i think that they might recognize my face and watch my videos all over again i don't know if i'll be that lucky but the last thing you lose is hope so what do you think is it possible to recover your popularity once you've lost it also if you could become super popular for a single skill what would it be let me know your opinion in the comments thanks for watching don't forget to subscribe and check out other videos in the channel

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Published: Mon Sep 07 2020