Quenlin Riquera Blackwell (born January 17, 2001) is an American influencer, YouTuber, comedian, model, and actress. She first found success on Vine as a teenager in the mid-2010s with comedic videos before shifting to other social media platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok. She has been nominated for a Streamy Award.
Quenlin Blackwell was born on January 17, 2001 in Dallas, Texas.[2][3] She was raised in a predominantly white suburb of Texas after her family moved from Cincinnati. As a child, her father was in prison.[4] She started a YouTube channel when she was eight years old and began posting videos online at age nine.[5][6] She attended Allen High School in Allen, Texas.[7]
Career
In 2015, when she was 14 years old, Blackwell started posting comedic videos on the video sharing platform Vine, where she gained over 500 thousand followers in the mid-2010s.[8][9] Her online presence first began to gain traction when she posted a video of herself falling while performing a cheerleading stunt, which received more than five million views in one day.[6][10] When Blackwell was 17 years old, she moved to Los Angeles, California.[11] Following the shutdown of Vine, she became popular on Twitter and YouTube.[2] She began posting vlog–style videos on TikTok in 2019. A video on the platform of her crying over accidentally purchasing a couch for $100 thousand and asking for donations went viral in October 2022 before she soon revealed that it was a prank, which received backlash online.[12]
By 2023, she had more than eight million followers on TikTok and more than one million subscribers on YouTube.[13] Blackwell starred in the music video for SG Lewis and Lucky Daye's song "Feed the Fire" in November 2020.[14] In February 2021, Blackwell signed with United Talent Agency.[13] Also in 2021, she was nominated as Breakout Creator at the 11th Streamy Awards and participated in the YouTube Originals reality competition series No. 1 Chicken, hosted by YouTuber FaZe Rug.[15][16] She was one of the hosts of YouTube's Coachella livestream in April 2022 and modeled for the lingerie brand Savage X Fenty's December 2022 campaign.[17][18]
Blackwell has asthma. She has also stated that she suffered from anorexia, which, according to her, worsened in 2018 after she received hate online for an unintelligible tweet about her parents' skincare brand.[26] She is a Christian, stating that God "was implemented in my entire family structure" in Texas.[5] In May 2024, Quenlin's older brother Jairyn Blackwell was killed in a homicide shooting.[27] He was 30 years old.[28]
In October 2020, a then-19-year-old Blackwell and the then-41-year-old American record producer Diplo posted videos about living with one another, which fans online decried as Diplo grooming Blackwell, though both denied that they had a relationship beyond being friends.[29] Diplo clarified that Blackwell was renting a property from him and that there was no romantic relationship between the pair.[30]
In multiple tweets, she stated that she was not straight and bisexual[31][32], and on another Twitter post, she recounted a humorous conversation with her parents, telling them that she was bisexual and wanted a girlfriend. Her mom and dad accepted it, although her dad said that the girl "better not be ugly".[33] She also kissed Billie Eilish when she got off stage on Coachella.[34]
Filmography
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