The income — from brand partnerships and TikTok’s Creator Fund, which pays creators a small amount based on viewership and other factors — helps balance the insults. The Fluellens, who now have 3.2 million followers, said they made in the low six figures in 2021 and this year they foresee topping $1 million. Alyssa quit her job as a registered nurse to focus on the family TikTok full-time. Not long after, Gerard left his position as a UPS truck driver, as brands including Pottery Barn, Athleta and Walmart forged partnerships with the couple.
Alyssa said she is astonished that her vlog has become such a moneymaker. Still, she bristled when a viewer recently commented that “mixed families become famous for being mixed families,” not an uncommon perception among minority creators and users.
“I am offended by that,” she said. “I worked my butt off to get where we are. I think that’s rude.” Gerard backed her up.
The amounts that creators make by demographic are not publicly shared by social media sites, including TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, according to Jasmine Enberg, a principal analyst at the digital marketing research company Insider Intelligence.
The Wallins are among TikTok’s “interracial influencers,” who, unwittingly or not, are benefiting in part from the nation’s long history and not-always-healthy fascination with mixed-race couples and children. For them, two forces — the pandemic and the racial reckoning after George Floyd’s murder — proved propitious as hordes of cooped-up Americans turned to TikTok for entertainment and brands sought to connect with multiracial audiences by partnering with diverse creators.
Alyssa Fluellen, a White woman who lives with her African American husband, Gerard, and their three children in her hometown of Victorville, Calif., said she didn’t consider the possibility of harassment when she launched her family TikTok in 2020.
“Race was not a factor when we met or fell in love with each other,” and their families were mostly accepting, she said.
Then she encountered the vitriol, largely spewed by older White men, although sometimes from Black women — the groups that historically have been most critical of Black male-White female relationships.
When Alyssa, 29, was pregnant with the couple’s youngest child, Emmett, now 1, one White man wrote that he’d like to shake her upside down to abort the “monkey” in her uterus, she said. Another wished cancer on her offspring.
i am a real human
Aiden Gutierrez
Why do American women love BBC so much Any Forums?
Michael Long
>we >mad clout
Lincoln Clark
naa dont worry amerimud its more like going to the zoo watch the apes just remote watching apes
Isaac Wright
Bum. If you're not a race realist in 2022 there's no salvation for you.
Luis Garcia
>mad clout Niggers please stay in the ghetto thank you. >but I'm not black I'm a white zoomer Niggers please stay in the ghetto thank you.
Samuel Hall
>one White man wrote that he’d like to shake her upside down to abort the “monkey” in her uterus
Gigabased
Leo Price
>he’d like to shake her upside down to abort the “monkey” in her uterus Aight. Which one of you fucks was it?
If you're on tiktok then you've already lost anyway. Social media is just accelerating the collapse
Hudson Gomez
>nuclear family jew psyop to make you susceptible to getting your culture fucked up in a single generation >3 generational home grandpa will raise a man even if the parents fail miserably
>although sometimes from Black women Understating the real people who hate them, black women hate seeing Niggers with white women because it limits their minuscule dating pool even more than normal.
>“Race was not a factor when we met or fell in love with each other,” and their families were mostly accepting, she said. And I'm the Shah of Iran. The only way their families were mostly accepting is if her father, IF he was around, understood if he told her dating a nigger meant she'll have to pay the toll eventually he'd be crucified in the media so he just shut his mouth. Her father, IF he's there, is probably accepting in the same way that father in that gif of his faggot son coming out of the box as a "women" is "accepting".
Tik Tok is for women and faggot zoomers anyways, so they probably enjoy this shit.
Owen Perez
Yes they do. Remember when the establishment freaked out at Trump just because he wanted the TikTok US data to stay in the US?
Ryan Perry
I think it's fine, love is love regardless of the color of someones skin
Levi Smith
I am disappointed with the results of white american women with black american man. The children look too light skins?
I want to see aryan blonde women being blackbred by the darkest, ultra vantablack nigger africans, so the baby comes out coal black. Its a powerful visage, a golden aryan woman holding a coalblack baby in her arms. In the past this was a symbol of shame, but soon it will be a symbol of an empowered queen of spade, choosing to trade up to the superior black nigger god genetix
