Josh Richards slams influencers who use the Sway House for clout points YouTube: Josh RichardsJosh Richards is one of TikTok\u2019s most popular content creators and an integral part of the Sway House \u2014 a group that he\u2019s not too pleased is being used for clout by other influencers looking to get a leg up in the industry. [jwplayer ZXB9LNVP] Josh Richards, who boasts over 22 million followers on TikTok (in no small part due to showing off his abs in every other video), feels that some creators are taking advantage of the Sway House\u2019s kindness to grow their own platforms and split. Richards spoke on the situation during an episode of Barstool Sports\u2019 \u2018BFFs\u2019 podcast on October 13, claiming that he had at first wanted to help other creators get started by giving them a boost. \u201cI knew how to pump out a million videos back to back,\u201d he explained. \u201cAnd I\u2019d do five a day. And then I would see these other kids who were starting to blow up, and I was like, \u2018Okay, if I give them a little bit of direction, they could be huge.\u2019\u201d https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CDMpS2RAYMv\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link However, co-host Dave Portnoy noted that sometimes these kinds of relationships can go south \u2014 a sentiment that Richards agreed with, sharing his own experiences with stars just trying to use the Sway House. \u201cThere\u2019s so many people that come to us, and they\u2019ll start filming at our house,\u201d he continued. \u201cI think we\u2019ve gotten better at not letting this happen, but they would just use us for videos. They would sleep over, they would always be like, \u2018Get in our videos!\u2019\u201d \u201cThe thing that sucks about that is that you don\u2019t really know who\u2019s out to get you anymore and then who\u2019s just really trying to be there, be your homie and just vibe with you,\u201d he added. \u201cThat really sucks.\u201d Richards isn\u2019t the first internet star to make such claims, by far; YouTuber Jake Paul has also infamously accused other creators of using Team 10 to blow up and subsequently \u201cact like they don\u2019t know nobody,\u201d leading to quite a bit of drama in his own realm. While Richards\u2019 statement has yet to be called out by other TikTokers, it\u2019s not hard to believe that someone would try to piggyback off of someone else\u2019s success in the age of social media fame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Josh Richards slams influencers who use the Sway House for clout points YouTube: Josh RichardsJosh Richards is one of TikTok\u2019s most popular content creators and an integral part of the Sway House \u2014 a group that he\u2019s not too pleased is being used for clout by other influencers looking to get a leg up in […]<\/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-52389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52389","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=52389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}