Caleb Finn
| Caleb Finn | |
|---|---|
| Personal information | |
| Born | 9 December 1994 Frankston, Melbourne, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation | Social media influencer |
| TikTok information | |
| Followers | 15.6m |
| Likes | 780m |
Caleb Finn (born 9 December 1994) is an Australian entertainer and social media influencer known for his avant-garde, dress-ups, and short horror stories. Finn's popularity on several social media platforms including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and extensive media coverage has made him a noted online personality. Finn has over 16.5 million followers on his numerous social media channels with 15 million on TikTok alone.[1][2] Finn is also the most followed Victorian content creator,[2] and the second most followed Australian creator.[3][4] Finn is 28 years old, and has a partner named Soup (known on social media as xlilsoup), with whom he shares a young son who they refer to as Finley online.[3]
Social media career[edit]
After finishing secondary school, Finn worked in education, first at an early-childhood care provider and then at a primary school. Finn commenced as a casual user on TikTok, and eventually started gaining increasing popularity.[5] Finn has described the pressure of having an audience for the first time, particularly that as his subscriber count reached 500,000, students at the school he was working at started to recognise him from his content. At just short of 1 million followers, children from other schools started to arrive at Finn's workplace, and this caused the principal to approach Finn and ask him to resign from his employment due to the horror themes in his content and the unwanted attention his creations caused.[5] At this point, Finn made the transition from teaching to fulltime work on his social media channels.
References[edit]
- ^ Dexter, Rachael (29 March 2021). "School teacher to online influencer: Introducing Melbourne's TikTok megastars". The Age. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
- ^ a b Siobhan, Duck (25 August 2022). "Unlikely identity unmasked as Victoria's top influencer". The Herald Sun. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
- ^ a b Joanna, Panagopoulos (24 August 2022). "Caleb Finn, Australia's Second Most Influential Creator". The Australian. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
- ^ "Australia's Top Influencers Revealed, With Surprise Names Making The List". 10 play. 25 August 2022. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
- ^ a b Scott, Tom (2 July 2020). "Watch: I Got Fired Because I'm TikTok Famous: Caleb Finn". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 27 August 2022.