Quenlin Blackwell
American influencer (born 2001) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Quenlin "Quen" Blackwell (born January 17, 2001) is an American influencer, YouTuber, comedian and actress. She first found success on Vine as a teenager in the mid-2010s with comedic videos before shifting to other social media platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok. She has been nominated for a Streamy Award.
Quenlin Blackwell | |
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.jpg) Blackwell's driver license photo, c. 2023 | |
| Born | January 17, 2001 |
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| Years active | 2015–present |
YouTube information | |
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| Genre | Talk |
| Subscribers | 2.54 million |
| Views | 210 million |
TikTok information | |
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| Followers | 11.9 million[1] |
| Likes | 749 million[1] |
Last updated: March 22, 2025 | |
Life and career
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Quenlin Blackwell was born on January 17, 2001 in Dallas, Texas.[2][3] She was raised in a predominantly white suburb of Texas after her family moved from Cincinnati. As a child, her father was in prison.[4] She started a YouTube channel when she was eight years old and began posting videos online at age nine.[5][6] She attended Allen High School in Allen, Texas.[7] In 2015, when she was 14 years old, Blackwell started posting comedic videos on the video sharing platform Vine, where she gained over 500 thousand followers in the mid-2010s.[8][9] Her online presence first began to gain traction when she posted a video of herself falling while performing a cheerleading stunt, which received more than five million views in one day.[6][10] When Blackwell was 17 years old, she moved to Los Angeles, California.[11] Following the shutdown of Vine, she became popular on Twitter and YouTube.[2] She began posting vlog–style videos on TikTok in 2019. A video on the platform of her crying over accidentally purchasing a couch for $100 thousand and asking for donations went viral in October 2022 before she soon revealed that it was a prank, which received backlash online.[12] By 2023, she had more than eight million followers on TikTok and more than one million subscribers on YouTube.[13]
Blackwell starred in the music video for SG Lewis and Lucky Daye's song "Feed the Fire" in November 2020.[14] In February 2021, Blackwell signed with United Talent Agency.[13] Also in 2021, she was nominated as Breakout Creator at the 11th Streamy Awards and participated in the YouTube Originals reality competition series No. 1 Chicken, hosted by YouTuber FaZe Rug.[15][16] She was one of the hosts of YouTube's Coachella livestream in April 2022 and modeled for the lingerie brand Savage X Fenty's December 2022 campaign.[17][18] She appeared alongside other Internet personalities in the music video for "360" by Charli XCX in 2024.[19] That year, she was cast as a guest star in a television pilot created by Rachel Sennott for HBO.[20] Blackwell was featured as an onstage guest during British singer Charli XCX's performance of her songs "Von Dutch" and "Guess" at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards.[21] She signed with Creative Artists Agency in October 2024, by which point she had amassed more than ten million followers on TikTok and more than two million on Instagram.[22] As of 2025[update], she hosts the YouTube series Feeding Starving Influencers, which features her cooking for colleagues and friends such as Lil Nas X, Lil Yachty, and the Sturniolo Triplets.[23][24][25]
Personal life
Blackwell has asthma. She has also stated that she suffered from anorexia, which, according to her, worsened in 2018 after she received hate online for an unintelligible tweet about her parents' skincare brand.[26] She is a Christian, stating that God "was implemented in my entire family structure" in Texas.[5]
In October 2020, a then-19-year-old Blackwell and the then-41-year-old American record producer Diplo posted videos about living with one another, which fans online decried as Diplo grooming Blackwell, though both denied that they had a relationship beyond being friends.[27] Diplo clarified that Blackwell was renting a property from him and that there was no romantic relationship between the pair.[28]
In May 2024, Quenlin's older brother Jairyn Blackwell was killed in a homicide shooting.[29] He was 30 years old.[30]
Filmography
| † | Denotes productions that have not yet been released |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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| 2021 | The D'Amelio Show | Self | Guest appearance | [31] |
| No. 1 Chicken | Self | Contestant | [16] | |
| TBA | Unnamed HBO pilot † | TBA | Guest role | [20] |
Music videos
| Year | Title | Artist | Ref. |
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| 2020 | "Feed the Fire" | SG Lewis and Lucky Daye | [14] |
| 2024 | "360" | Charli XCX | [19] |
| "90s Baby" | JT | [22] | |
| 2025 | "Ran Out" | [32] |
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