![]() “But you’ll never understand it until you’re in the position. “You’re always told that money can’t buy happiness,” Petrou says in episode eight. And I haven’t been in the last year.” Yet, despite Petrou’s not being “fully ok,” his back-and-forth on shutting down the Hype House altogether, and sparring with Chase Hudson (Lil Huddy) over not pulling his weight for the collective, he can’t bring himself to quit. “I’m so stressed,” Hype House leader Thomas Petrou tells us in episode five, describing his struggle to get other members of the house to create content to generate around $80,000 for the monthly rent on their Santa Rosa Valley, California home. A window into the TikTok collective that helped launch social media stars, Charli D’Amelio and Addison Rae, the show hardly makes being an influencer look like fun. Netflix’s Hype House is unlikely to change any of this, though the eight-episode reality show certainly is depressing. And teens, on average, spend slightly under seven and a half hours a day on screens, excluding time for school work according to a study by Common Sense Media. ![]() ![]() In August 2020, The New York Times reported that one-third of TikTok users may be aged 14 or under. In June 2020, a study revealed that kids spend nearly as much time on TikTok as they do on YouTube. Photo courtesy of Netflix.Ī 2019 survey conducted by LEGO to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing found that more children want to be YouTubers than astronauts. Netflix’s Hype House was released on January 7.
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