Charli D\u2019Amelio named Forbes\u2019 Social Media Person of the Year Instagram: Charli D’AmelioIt looks like TikTok superstar Charli D\u2019Amelio is rounding off 2020 in the best possible way, as Forbes Magazine has named her as their Social Media Person of the Year! This time last year, nobody could have possibly anticipated that Charli D\u2019Amelio would achieve the level of fame and fortune she has now. Time and time again, the 16-year-old has proven that she is a force to be reckoned with. Once she hit 50 million followers on TikTok in April, she achieved a Guinness World Record for being the most-followed female on the platform. Since then, her following has doubled to over 100 million, making her the first influencer on the platform to reach that benchmark. With these achievements in mind, it should come as no surprise that, during their annual Social Media Awards, Forbes awarded D\u2019Amelio with their biggest award of the night: Social Media Person of the Year. Abram Brown, Senior Editor at Forbes, said in an article detailing their social media awards that \u201cno one better personifies the explosion of TikTok than Charli.\u201d \u201cEighteen months ago, she was an anonymous Connecticut teenager,\u201d he said. \u201cToday, she\u2019s the most-followed person on TikTok, recently surpassing 100 million followers, a threshold few celebrities have crossed on any app.\u201d Read More: FaZe Clan announce first FaZe5 winner – Brown spoke to fellow TikTok star Jacob Pace about D\u2019Amelio\u2019s rise to fame. Pace, who runs popular TikTok channel Flight House, noted that Charli reaching the 100k benchmark is \u201cinsane\u201d, and notes that \u201cTikTok got a lot more attention this year and got a lot more mainstream.\u201d Forbes Social Media Awards 2020: 16-Year-Old TikTok Star Charli D\u2019Amelio Snags Person Of The Year \u2013 Forbes @charlidamelio @Forbes https:\/\/t.co\/sg8rNTZcZp \u2014 Marc D’Amelio (@marcdamelio) December 27, 2020 It seems that Forbes agrees with Pace\u2019s sentiments since, as part of the Social Media Awards, they named TikTok the Disruptive Innovator of the year. Noting how TikTok went from 55 million users worldwide in 2018 to 690 million this year, Brown described the app as being at \u201cthe center of internet culture\u201d. Read More: Jake Paul under fire again for partying – Charlie D\u2019Amelio has retweeted her father\u2019s re-posting of the Forbes article detailing her win, butshe is yet to publicly comment on her achievement any further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Charli D\u2019Amelio named Forbes\u2019 Social Media Person of the Year Instagram: Charli D’AmelioIt looks like TikTok superstar Charli D\u2019Amelio is rounding off 2020 in the best possible way, as Forbes Magazine has named her as their Social Media Person of the Year! This time last year, nobody could have possibly anticipated that Charli D\u2019Amelio would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}