Cara Cunningham
American Internet personality, songwriter, and recording artist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cara Cunningham (formerly Christopher Cunningham and professionally as Chris Crocker; born December 7, 1987) is an American internet personality, songwriter, recording artist, YouTuber, and former pornographic film actress. As of October 2010[update], Cunningham's videos had received a combined 50 million plays on MySpace, and her vlog channel on YouTube was the 100th-most viewed of all time in all categories, with over 205 million video views, before Cunningham closed her YouTube account in September 2015.[2][3] Her work consists mainly of short-form, self-directed monologues shot in her grandparents' home.[4]
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Born | Christopher Cunningham (1987-12-07) December 7, 1987 (age 36) Bristol, Tennessee, U.S. |
Years active | 2006–present |
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Cunningham gained fame in September 2007 from her viral video "Leave Britney Alone!", in which she tearfully defended pop singer Britney Spears' comeback performance at the MTV Video Music Awards; the video received over four million views in two days.[5] The video gained international media attention, hundreds of parodies, and criticism for Cunningham,[6][7][8][9] which included accusations of narcissism, melodrama and histrionics, and using Spears' personal shortcomings to bolster her own fame.[10] Others have accused Cunningham of acting in the "Leave Britney Alone!" video, although Cunningham insisted it was genuine on a September 2007 appearance on Maury Povich's Maury show.[11][12][13]
Cunningham produces and acts in her own videos, and is a self-described edutainer.[14][15]
In most of Cunningham's adolescent works, she presents herself as an openly gender non-conforming person and effeminate Southerner in a "small-minded town" in the Bible Belt. During her teenage years, Cunningham used "Crocker" as a stage name in order to keep her identity and location secret, due to death threats she received.[14][16][17] In 2014, Queerty stated that with thousands of Facebook and Twitter followers, Cunningham is "one of those self-invented social media icons".[18]