Haliey Welch denies industry plant claims after \u201chawk tuah\u201d phrase goes viral Instagram: Hay_WelchHaliey Welch, known as the girl behind the viral \u201chawk tuah\u201d catchphrase, has denied claims that she\u2019s an industry plant in a new video. In June 2024, A viral clip from Tim and Dee TV showed the interviewers talking to a woman on the streets of Nashville, Tennessee. During the interview, a question sparked the now-viral \u201chawk tuah\u201d catchphrase that took over the internet. Days of searching revealed that the \u201chawk tuah girl\u201d was Haliey Welch, who remained rather quiet until doing a podcast with YouTuber Brianna Lapaglia and re-joining social media. There have been claims from various users online that Welch is an \u201cindustry plant\u201d due to her sudden rise in fame, but the viral sensation has since denied them in a video on Instagram. \u201cI\u2019m not an industry plant, it was not planned,\u201d she said. \u201cEvery bit of it was just there, right in the moment. I had to ask what [industry plant] meant.\u201d She also reiterated that she wasn\u2019t fired from a preschool due to the viral clip, making it quite clear that she\u2019s never worked at one in the first place. Haliey did work at a factory that makes springs but said she quit that job to travel. She\u2019s been busy since the initial Tim and Dee TV interview, however. During her interview with Lapaglia, she revealed plans to release a show about her life after the \u201clife changing\u201d street interview \u2013 but not before she does a few podcasts to talk about her newfound stardom. She also met up with NBA legend Shaquille O\u2019Neal, who gave the woman \u201cgracious\u201d life advice while hanging out together. Haliey Welch isn\u2019t the first to be suspected of being an \u201cindustry plant\u201d after receiving sudden viral fame online. Back in 2023, Bobby Altoff rose in popularity after her podcasts with Drake, Lil Yachty, and more took over social media, sparking similar accusations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Haliey Welch denies industry plant claims after \u201chawk tuah\u201d phrase goes viral Instagram: Hay_WelchHaliey Welch, known as the girl behind the viral \u201chawk tuah\u201d catchphrase, has denied claims that she\u2019s an industry plant in a new video. In June 2024, A viral clip from Tim and Dee TV showed the interviewers talking to a woman […]<\/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-49414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49414","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=49414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}