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Viral sensation dishes on her rise to internet fame in new interview
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Published Jul 01, 2024 • Last updated 16 hours ago • 3 minute read
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'Hawk Tuah' girl Hailey Welch talked about going viral with Briana
LaPaglia this week on her Plan Bri podcast. Photo by YouTube
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Country star Zach Bryan extended Hailey Welch's 15 minutes of fame
when he invited the internet personality, famously known as the "Hawk
Tuah" girl, to join him onstage at Nashville's Nissan Stadium on
Saturday.
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If you don't know who she is — and after coming back from a week in
Las Vegas, I'll admit I hadn't heard of her — Welch, 21, became a
social media superstar after she shared her bold go-to sex tip in a
viral interview that blew up on YouTube, Twitter and TikTok.
In a man-about-the-street video from YouTubers Tim & Dee TV, Welch was
asked, "What's one move in bed that makes a man go crazy every time?"
Welch's unfiltered, X-rated reply was an instant hit when she cheekily
responded, "You gotta give 'em that 'hawk tuah' and spit on that
thang."
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The NSFW clip took off like wildfire, with over 3 million views on
YouTube and becoming a topic of conversation for everyone from Joe
Roganto Howard Stern to the Philadelphia Phillies' Bryce Harper. Logan
Paul even spat out the viral phrase during a WWE match Friday night.
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According to _Forbes_ , videos that have been uploaded using the
hashtag #hawktuah have garnered millions of views and hundreds of
thousands of likes.
Welch even partied with former NBA great Shaquille O'Neal when he DJed
Sunday at Jon Bon Jovi's new Nashville hot spot.
Last week, _Rolling Stone_ reported that merchandise with the graphic
sex phrase has already racked up $65,000 in sales.
"She's probably one of the most well-known people in the world at this
point. But I don't know if she's embraced it," Fathead Threads brand
manager Jason Poteete told the outlet.
"Of course, she hasn't gotten a dime from the first viral video that
went out. Nobody was asking permission for her to do nothing, neither.
I just wanted her to get some profit off of this deal."
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Poteete that Welch has already sold more than 2,000 "Hawk Tuah '24"
hats.
"Our largest orders are usually 100 hats, maybe 150 to 250 shirts.
This is way out of the normal for us," Poteete said. "This is a small,
family-owned shop. We're all-hands-on-deck right now."
Bryan hauled Welch onstage Saturday night to help him sing his hit
song _Revival_. Clutching a drink in one hand, Welch was clad in jean
shorts, a white crop top, white cowboy boots and a cowboy hat.
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Various fan-captured videos of her appearance have racked up millions
of views, with the crowd cheering wildly when Welch gave a boisterous
"Hawk Tuah" to the audience.
Hailey Welch and country superstar Zach Bryan. Photo by X
"Hawk Tuah girl is having the best month of her life. She'll have
stories to tell her grandkids," one person commented, with another
explaining Welch's popularity, writing, "The reason we love this girl
is not because of what she sad. It's because she was being herself and
natural and fun. In a world full of pretense and clicks and filters,
she was (100%) herself and I love her for that."
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"This girl single-handedly saved the month of June," a third fan
quipped.
In her first interview with Bryan's girlfriend Briana LaPaglia on
Monday, Welch reflected on her newfound fame telling her _Plan Bri
Uncut_ podcast that she "s— a brick" when she discovered she had
become internet famous.
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Welch had learned she had gone "massive" as she was getting ready to
work her graveyard shift at a spring factory.
"I was like, 'Oh, this is kind of funny. It's not going to get any
bigger than this,'" when she first saw the video taking off. "I went
back an hour later and the views had gone up by like a million."
As her fame took off, Welch said she's gotten the oddest requests.
"The guy that does my hats got offered $600 three days ago for me to
spit in a jar and sell it," she revealed. "This is revolting. That's
just disgusting, is it not?"
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Going forward, Welch, who has obtained a talent agent, says she
doesn't want to be known as the "Hawk Tuah" girl.
"I was being a smarta-," she told LaPaglia. "You're going to come up
to me with a microphone and ask me something like that? I'm gonna
'hawk tuah and spit on it,'" she laughed. "I (didn't) mean nothing by
it."
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