Barwon Heads teenager Tommy Cockram has amassed nearly five million followers on TikTok in just over a year and is aiming to double that by this time in 2022.
The 15-year-old Oberon High School year 9 student creates mystery and horror videos and has surpassed 130 million views on the social media platform.
“Within the first week I was gaining hundreds of thousands of followers so it was pretty quick and it kept going after that,” he said.
“I ended up with a million followers within a month. People must like my content I guess.”
Tommy has fans all over the world, with one-quarter of his followers in the USA.
“I didn’t expect it at all,” he said.
“I didn’t think I was going to get over a couple of thousand. I hope by the end of next year I could get 10 million, that would be absolutely awesome.”
Tommy is gaining around 20,000 new followers every day.
Even copied videos of his on YouTube have received five million views.
Tommy receives fan mail, which is sometimes a bit strange.
“People asking me about myself or wanting to buy my page for like $30,” he said.
“And they’re being serious as well. Somebody wanted to pay me $50 to teach them how to do a backflip. But mostly they just ask for more posts.”
Tommy has been approached by companies in the US to manage him and to promote products and has already done one promotion for Future Me, but he concedes his content might not be the right fit for some.
“It’s more of a niche market,” he said.
“It’s hard to advertise something that’s happy on a horror genre page.”
So, does Tommy enjoy his new-found fame?
“Yeah, it’s awesome,” he said.
“But I try not to think about it too much. It hurts my brain. It’s more a bit of fun.”
