The idea of going viral is a thing of nightmares for a lot of us but one woman, you probably know all too well at this point, received such an accolade rather unexpectedly.
Haliey Welch, AKA Hawk Tuah woman, gained massive fame last month when she was asked what move makes a man go crazy in the bedroom.
No one was expecting her reply, as she said: "You gotta' give him that hawk tuah and spit on that thing."
This is how the Hawk Tauh was born.
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After being viewed on Tim & Dee TV over five million times, Hailey has become somewhat of a national treasure.
While the 23-year-old is seemingly happy with her newfound fame, there is one thing she is really 'scared' of happening while out in public.
Speaking on KIIS FM’s The Kyle and Jackie O show over the weekend, Haliey said: "I'm paranoid of getting kidnapped or something. I'm very paranoid about that. And I'm little too, so I can't really defend myself with big people or nothing like that."
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With her raise to fame, Haliey is recognised a lot more in public, and she recalled an incident in Walmart recently.
She told the radio hosts: "I had a guy come up to me in Walmart a few weeks ago, and he was like, ‘I know you’. And I said, ‘No you don't’, and he like, ‘Yeah I do, I know you.’”
Hawk Tuah replied: "I mean, I saw you at that event and you had five bodyguards surrounding you," said the host. "Yeah - I needed them."
The viral star has also had to explain her newfound fame to her family, including a particular awkward conversation with her grandparents.
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Revealing how she clarified 'hawk tuah' to her grandma in particular, Haliey said: "I had to explain it to her three times before she got it."
Certainly not the easiest conversation to be had, I imagine.
With her new fame, Haliey has earned mega bucks with her agent Jonnie Forster, of management company The Penthouse, revealing how much she earns exactly in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter.
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When asked how much money has her official merch made, he replied: "It’s approaching $300,000. Right when we signed her, I was on the phone with a trademark attorney immediately and said, 'Go after everyone who’s filed trademarks on this, and cease-and-desist with those.'"
The agent continued: "And we had to start building her social media presence: 'We can’t stop this volcano, so what do you want to do?'
"She’s very interested in using this new platform for the betterment of a lot of different things, not just trying to monetize.
"She lives with her grandma, and she’s not leaving her grandma. She’s making sure she’s not doing anything that’s going to embarrass her hometown."
Topics: Hawk Tuah girl, Social Media, Viral, Weird
Callum Jones