Ben Hampton Has 670,000 Followers on Instagram. He’s Only 6 Years Old.
Ben Hampton is buddies with YouTube king Jake Paul, and has literal hordes of screaming fans. It’d be a crazy life for anyone. But Ben is only in the first grade.
>In the past nine months, a first-grader named Ben Hampton has exploded onto the social media influencer scene.
>Since launching his Instagram account with a photo of himself at kindergarten graduation in February, Ben has amassed nearly 700,000 followers on the platform, gone viral on YouTube, collaborated with top-tier internet stars, and gained entry into Team 10, the internet’s most notorious and exclusive vlog squad.
>Ben has become so popular that it’s hard for him to walk around his neighborhood without getting recognized by tween fans gushing over his coordinated outfits or asking him for selfies.
>When Ben stepped out of his car seat at a recent pop-up shop in Los Angeles he was met by a crowd of fans screaming his name.
>As a 6-year-old who only recently learned to read and write and who does not yet have a signature, Ben scribbled his initials onto the iPhone cases, sweatshirts, and shoes of his admirers. He calls these fans his “young savages” and prides himself on high-fiving and thanking everyone.
>Of course, unlike his fellow influencers, Ben Hampton himself has never posted to Instagram or YouTube. His account is fully run by his father, social media veteran Branden Hampton.
>These days, it’s not unusual for parents to start social media accounts in the names of their children, but very few gain a dedicated following outside family members and close friends.
>Hampton, however, through his job as a social media consultant, has built a career on making things go viral, and Ben’s account characterized by daily photos of Ben’s well-planned outfits, quickly gained a niche following.
>“When Ben was born, my wife decided to go all out on clothes,” Hampton said. “She loves playing dress up and she just decided, ‘I’m not just going to throw OshKosh B'gosh overalls and SpongeBob T-shirts on this kid. I’m going to dress him all out.’”
>But well-dressed kids on Instagram are a dime a dozen. It was Hampton’s contacts with established social media stars that ultimately provided Ben’s springboard to fame.
>This summer, as Hampton and his wife meticulously uploaded photos of Ben with captions designed to go viral on Instagram, Ben was becoming enamored with the world of YouTube.
>His account is fully run by his father, social media veteran Branden Hampton. Peak (((Capitalism)))
Joshua Powell
guarantee you by 20 this kid'l be on the end of a crack pipe after having a dozen pedos up his ass
absolutely disgusting
Grayson Parker
>tfw 23 with only 64 followers
Curse you normie scum REEEEEEEE
Grayson Fisher
That's some Chad training right there
Jackson Thomas
So my kid is 6 and has a funny personality. I've done everything I can to keep his pictures and name away from the internet. I even get pissed when my wife posts pictures on faceberg. What kind of fucked up parent wants to exploit their child like this?
Ayden Cox
Who is this fucking kid and who the fuck is this faggot Jake Paul?
Levi Bailey
>wondering if inventing Internet was a mistake?
Yes
Lucas Wood
T H I S M U S T S T O P >THIS >MUST >STOP T H I S M U S T S T O P >THIS >MUST >STOP
Leo Wood
This is like that black mirror episode where the qt giggle bitch loses her mind cause she can't get the up-votes.
Colton Reyes
>His account is fully run by his father, social media veteran Branden Hampton.
Dad's pimping out his 6 year old kid for his 15 minutes of fame.
Thomas Kelly
This is child abuse. How can we get women mad about it?
Charles Ross
The internet gives us freedom but also weaponizes normies. They can pool their resources into 6 year olds like in this case, retardation with reach.
I welcome it, it's us vs NPC's. We just have to know the enemy
You can see it in the art and architecture; once these two viruses get out into the world everything visibly turns to shit. Whatever good was left was finished off by WWI
Jace Young
the next generation of "My special child is a Hollywood ticket"
Henry Hill
>normies consume this trite nonsense Nuke it all, Kim
Caleb Walker
The internet is a tool of globalism. It could have been something great. But it isn't. The whole of mankind's knowledge and most women use it to post selfies, while most men are watching 95 pound girls getting pile driven in the ass. We weren't ready for it. Ted was right.
Joseph Smith
this
Easton Anderson
SAGE
Xavier Harris
So how many followers you think I'd get if I beat the shit out of this kike faggot? How many pedos will launch a gofundme page for my head?
Joshua Collins
>he was met by a crowd of fans screaming his name.
Why? Why are people so excited to see him? He's just a fucking kid. He doesn't even do anything.
Isaac Cruz
the only people interested in this shit are idiots and the people making money from said idiots.
Elijah Taylor
Talk about raising a complete moron.
Chase Bell
>ITT: envious poorfags will rationalize hating on a 6 year old simply because he's already more successful than the entirety of this website combined stay mad
Justin Martinez
>who the fuck is this faggot Jake Paul?
He's this dude who got really popular on Vine (if you remember that), and then moved to Youtube when it shutdown. He's got something like 8 Million subs and basically just makes CUHRAZEE prank videos and vlogs of him and his friends doing stupid shit with the money that Youtube throws at him.
He's so popular that an entire cottage industry of vloggers have formed making videos commenting on every little thing he does like tabloids. Some guy even coined the term Jake Paul Effect to describe how channels that make videos just mentioning Jake's name cause a huge boost in subscribers and viewership. It's fucking insane how one person can be so insanely popular, and even more insane that I'd literally never heard of him until this year.
Them being stupid doesn't really explain it though. I get that normies are into dumb/vapid things, but it takes a special kind of retard to gush over the presence of a fucking 6 year old because his parents dress him well and take good pictures of him. Like how do you even explain that to other people?
>OH MY GOD IT'S BEN HAMPTON!!! >Literally who? >He's that kid on Instagram with over a half million followers. >Oh really? Why does he have so many followers? >Well because he has a lot of followers! I'm going to go get his autograph.
It's fucking insane.
I don't hate the kid. I just don't understand how or why he's successful.
Brandon Morgan
he's successful because people like being served idealized trite they'll never get to experience themselves. Also pedophiles.
Brayden Hill
He's going to grow up to be a massive faggot.
Brayden Peterson
wouldn't you love to slap the entitlement right out of him?
he'd say some really smartass to you and you just slap his jaw off.
Angel Foster
I'm honestly convinced it's (((someone))) testing the waters to see how malleable normalfags are and if memes, celebrities, and popularity can be forced at any time for (((their))) purposes. How is a six year old doing nothing famous? Simple, (((they))) wanted him to be just to see how much influence (((they))) can exert.
Aiden Walker
“won the lottery” if you can call it like that. i wouldnt it label success for sure. early media attention in an empty business of shallowness, consumed mostly by women and numales : he’s propably gonna grow up being some leftist lgbtbbq faggot that eats a shotgun in his later years so i dont envy him one inch.
Ryder Gonzalez
That makes sense. I've heard theories that part of the reason Jake Paul became so popular is that Youtube's ever-changing recommendation algorithms kept pushing his content to wide audiences and he learned to take advantage of it.
I'm sure this article is severely downplaying how much Ben's dad is involved in the whole thing. The guy's been doing social media for a living for years, and probably has a bunch of influential contacts.
Dylan Lewis
Lmao. Reality will slap him hard on the cheek when he's older. This is an assasination of child's character from his own father, milked by 'popularism' for money. He's gonna run dry.
Connor Brown
Soccer mums. If you put your child out on internet it'll basically halfway to kidnapping.
Ayden Lewis
no chad is coming out of this guy's nutsack. to be a chad you must have chad genes.
Liam Fisher
>670k >instashit still irrelevant
Isaac Sanchez
easy, a white male is taking advantage of a small boy
Jace Brooks
Internet was not a mistake, leaving it easy enough for normies was.
Ayden Diaz
Maybe a jew?
Jacob Gray
To this day I still don't understand the appeal of social media.
Landon Davis
His dad bought followers and likes, so then some real retards noticed and followed too. Nothing more to it this shit happens A LOT. His dad even admitted to being a "social media veteran", meaning he's probably been hired for this shit many times before. Hence his "contacts".
Landon Martinez
So this kid, a white male, has only gone viral because his father, a white male, used his business contacts to make it happen? This is literally a patriarchy red flag. Why haven't tumblr exploded with rage over this yet?
Tyler Rogers
Because he's irrelevant and no one's ever heard of him
Nathaniel Miller
>YouTube king Jake Paul Who the fuck is Jake Paul?
Charles Cooper
There are cats and dogs that have more folowers than that. People love silly cute bullshit...
Sebastian White
Except his 670k followers, and anyone that's read an article about him.
Grayson Reed
The subscription list for this kid should be a hit list.
David Williams
by the time he’s 18 he’ll have gone on a massive alcohol and ket bender, probably will do some nasty porn too
Kevin Perry
I don't know him, so he's a nobody. I don't care about how many pajeets his dad bought to follow him.
Gabriel Murphy
some am*rican faggot in his early 20s that's all you have to know, only am*ricans care about such "celebrities"
David Morris
670k isn't much
Thomas Bell
I wouldn’t worry yourself, this post is amerimutt Jew tier celeb shit. I would gas the kid as well as the other celebs.
Nathaniel Lee
Delete this aids thread only Americans care about social media.
OP is a faggot
Xavier Garcia
Your kid is a fucking loser. Kill him since he's too young to kill himself.
Colton Martinez
>kid makes people happy by being in pictures for them and they make him happy by making him famous
only a bad thing if you are a butthurt commie who gets mad at win win situations if it entails someone having more money
Jaxon Edwards
If you don't like capitalism, maybe you should move to russia you commie faggot.
Andrew Ramirez
>He doesn't even do anything Social media isn't about doing anything or creating value though, it never was. It's a platform for naked emperors. Social media stars are the fakest people on earth, willing to turn their own lives into a commercial.
Blake Ortiz
Reminds me of something I read here once before >things are not popular because people like them, people like things because they are popular
Julian Martin
670k is a lot of soccer moms and pedos who like seeing well dressed 6 year olds.
Justin Davis
Imagine how empty your life must be to get excited about some kid with a nice haircut that you saw on the internet. "Normal" people are so fucking deficient.
Henry Butler
yes it was a huge mistake.
a Genius invention that sent human intelligence overall into regression.
that and that fucking word "viral"alone make it not worth it.
Luke Rivera
The internet gives a voice to everyone. If you don't see anything wrong with that, you're part of the problem.
Juan Adams
>blame Luther >blame the guy who wrote on the jews and their lies
Jace Thompson
670k of idiots. Who even cares
Elijah Clark
Russia is aleady (((capitalistic))) country, boomercuck
Logan Edwards
Society will collapse, people will devolve into cannibalism, they will all die, the end
Dominic Collins
...
Evan Gray
It was the smart phone that let all of these stupid people out of the box
Ryan Wood
This kid will be so fucked ab when he grows this can't be good for a child
Christopher Gonzalez
He’s gonna grow up to be a really good guy.
Adam Reed
that kid is gonna hate his parents
Anthony Roberts
For jew
Liam Collins
>Ben Hampton Has 670,000 Followers on Instagram. He’s Only 6 Years Old.
I'm sure his parents paid top dollar for it, too.
Colton Davis
>this can't be good for a child He'll probably go Chad mode and bully some autistic nerd virgins then get killed when some of them shoot up his school.
Noah Green
>who the fuck is this faggot Jake Paul?
Just a bullshit, glowing CIA retard, trying to take over the movement again by claiming to be our "Leader"
The name was picked because of Ron Paul...
And also my name is jake and the CIA hate me.
Cameron Jones
I feel like this is going to fuck his psyche up really bad
>capitalism rewards the hard working and the capable
Angel Green
on a scale of 1-10 how likely is this kid being touched by kiddie-diddlers like them celebrity kids from pedowood?
Aaron Sanchez
He's an accessory to Jake Paul, to them he as a person doesn't exist.
Asher Wright
You're missing the point of my original question
Nicholas Foster
It's his parents account. He just a little bleeder
Cooper Johnson
It's Jewish nepotism.
Isaiah Jenkins
>inventing Internet was a mistake? Yes The rest of your post was not needed at all
Kayden Bailey
Capitalism rewards th....
Christopher Flores
Parents using their kids to become famous. Has been done a dozen times.
He' a male Kardashian in the making.
Michael Green
the internet is just a tool, but maybe humanity is not mature enough to handle it responsibly
Nicholas Turner
why? because now you can clearly see how fake popularity contests are?
Caleb Morgan
>That hair
He's gonna be diddled by pedos and end up gay if he hasn't already
Noah Murphy
15 years later: >"Thank you, Ben, for your interest in our company. But I see that most of your aplications is empty. What do you do for a living?" >"I instagram." >"You what?" >"I instagram." >"Ah, oh well. Have you learned any skills in the last 15 years? Or have you had any job experience?" >"No, just instagram. Can' t leave the house without making a ruckus." >"Okay, but why do your really need this job? Someone with so many followers must have amassed quite the sum over the years." >"Yeah, but since I was underaged, my parents spent it all on new clothes, a new house - basically background stuff to keep my photos interesing." >"I see. Well, maybe we should let you stay inside your house."
Cameron Wilson
How did society let parents exploiting their kids through social media become acceptable
Ian Thompson
He will die of a drug overdose at 17
Liam Thompson
>what are beauty pageants
As I said it' s been done before. But social media has a much higher reach.
David Morgan
This is due to lack of leadership and decent role models