Larray

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Larri Merritt
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Merritt in 2022
Personal information
Born
Larri Merritt

(1998-07-22) July 22, 1998 (age 26)
Compton, California, U.S.
Education Alta Loma High School [1]
Occupations
Website girliesxo.shop
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2015–present
Subscribers9.31 million [2]
Total views1.2 billion [2]
Associated acts
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg100,000 subscribers2017 [3]
YouTube Gold Play Button 2.svg1,000,000 subscribers2018 [3]
Last updated: March 28, 2024

Larri Merritt [4] (born July 22, 1998 [5] ), professionally known as Larray, is an American YouTuber and social media influencer. He produces comedic video content on his YouTube channel, and was part of the collaborative TikTok collective known as The Hype House. After initially gaining prominence on Vine, he started uploading videos onto YouTube after the former became defunct. [6]

Contents

Career

Before becoming a member of The Hype House in January 2020 to late 2020, [7] he had accumulated over 6 million subscribers on his personal YouTube channel, [3] in addition to approximately 12.8 million followers on his personal TikTok account. [8] He was nominated in the Breakout Creator category at the 9th Streamy Awards in December 2019. [9] His three novelty songs "First Place," "Last Place" and "Canceled" together spent 42 weeks on Billboard's Comedy Digital Tracks chart before its abolishment in January 2020, with the former gaining over 41 million views on YouTube, [10] and ranking at number 13 on the 2018 year-end chart. [11]

Merritt is openly gay. [12] In August 2022, he launched a virtual restaurant that sells mac and cheese. [13] In May 2023, Merritt released Cancelled Remix with Twaimz. On this he took shots at Kai Cenat, IShowSpeed, Adin Ross, Dream, and others. This garnered 12 million views on YouTube.

COVID-19 pandemic controversy

On July 21, 2020, Nikita Dragun held a surprise birthday party for Merritt during the COVID-19 pandemic. [14] The party included social media personalities such as James Charles, Charli D'Amelio, Dixie D'Amelio, and others. [15] At the time of the party, California's COVID-19 cases had just surpassed New York's cases. [16] There was an estimated 67 people in attendance, [17] many of whom were seen without face masks [15] despite local health recommendations. [18] Photos and videos of the event appeared on social media sites such as Instagram. These posts drew criticism from the public, including other influencers like Elijah Daniel and Tyler Oakley. [14] [19] Merritt, and some of the other attendees, later apologized. [17] Residents of the Hype House later tested negative for COVID-19. [20]

Discography

Singles

TitleYearPeak chart positionsCertificationAlbum
US
[21] 		CAN
[22]
"Cancelled"20208196Non-album single
"Cancelled (Remix)"
(featuring Twaimz)		2023——
"—" denotes a song that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Other charted songs

TitleYearPeak chart positionsAlbum
US
Comedy
[24]
"First Place"20184non-album singles
"Last Place" [25]
(featuring Twaimz)		8

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryResultRef(s)
2019 Streamy Awards Breakout CreatorNominated [9]
2020 Creator of the YearNominated [26]
First PersonNominated
LifestyleWon

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