Brittany Broski

Brittany Alexis Tomlinson (born May 10, 1997), known professionally as Brittany Broski, is an American social media personality, comedian and singer. She initially gained fame after a video of her tasting kombucha for the first time went viral on TikTok in August 2019. As of April 2022, she has 6.8 million followers and over 300 million likes on TikTok.[2]

Brittany Broski
Personal information
BornBrittany Alexis Thomlinson
(1997-05-10) May 10, 1997
Dallas, Texas, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
EducationTexas A&M University
Occupation
  • Social media personality
  • comedian
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2019–present
Subscribers1,000,000[1]
(March 08, 2022)
Total views60.2 million[1]
(March 08, 2022)
NetworkUnited Talent Agency (2019–present)
Associated acts
100,000 subscribers 2020
YouTube information
Years active2019–present
Updated: 8/30/2021

Early life

Brittany Tomlinson was born on May 10, 1997, and raised in Dallas, Texas.[3] She participated in theater growing up, acting in local productions of The Addams Family, Bus Stop, and Spamalot. During both high school and college, she was a part of her schools' improv troupes.[4]

She graduated from Texas A&M University magna cum laude in 2018 with a degree in communications.[5] She subsequently worked at a call center but left after it made her depressed. She then worked in trust and investment services at a bank, where she was fired after her boss discovered the kombucha video and determined that Tomlinson's viral fame would put the company in jeopardy. [6][7] She is also a licensed insurance agent.[8]

Career

Tomlinson created her TikTok account in June 2019 at the request of her friends, originally using the handle @brittanyt445.[9] She posted her first video, a Snapchat video about her "depression meal", which quickly went viral, a month later.[10][8]

She subsequently posted her most viral video, wherein she tastes cherry cola-flavored kombucha for the first time with rapidly changing facial expressions, in August 2019.[11] The video first gained notoriety on "gay Twitter" after being reposted with sexually-charged captions, eventually gaining traction on Reddit and Twitter, earning over 40 million views on the latter platform.[8][10] The video also became a popular reaction image on social media and was ranked by TikTok as one of the top ten most viral videos of 2019 posted to the platform.[12][11] Its popularity earned her the nickname "Kombucha Girl".[13][9]

Following the success of the kombucha video, Tomlinson was signed to Influences Management and later to United Talent Agency.[8] In late 2019, Tomlinson moved to Los Angeles with her friend and fellow TikToker Sarah Schauer and the two have been making YouTube videos together since.[14] She appeared in an advertisement for Sabra hummus during Super Bowl LIV.[15] In early 2020 she competed on the second season of the YouTube reality show The Reality House hosted by JC Caylen and Kian Lawley; she was eliminated in the first episode.[16] In August 2020, she was featured in an episode of the Awesomeness web television series Dish This.[17] She was nominated for a Subject Award in Comedy at the 10th Streamy Awards.[18] She co-hosted the TikTok New Year's Eve Party live event with American rapper Lil Yachty in December 2020.[19] After she used the song "Remy the Ratatouille" in a video, the song went viral, inspiring the creation of Ratatouille the Musical.[20] In early 2021 Tomlinson became the host of TikTok's official podcast, For You.[21] She has since guest starred on Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova's podcast The Bald and the Beautiful,[22] made three guest appearances on Chris Klemens' podcast Unhinged,[23][24][25] and joined Trevor Evarts for the first episode of his podcast Trevor Talks Too Much[26].

On January 10, 2022, the first episode of Tomlinson's internet-themed podcast Violating Community Guidelines, co-hosted with Sarah Schauer and produced by Studio71, debuted.[27]

In 2022, she appeared on the Netflix baking competition "Is It Cake?" as a judge.

Public image

In 2020, Josh Kaplan of The Telegraph called Tomlinson "one of TikTok's biggest stars".[28] Writing for i-D, Tom Prior referred to her as a "TikTok superstar" and named a video of her rapping in the voice of English singer Adele as one of the 20 best TikToks of 2020.[29] L'Officiel included her on their list of "People Who Made Us Laugh in 2020".[30]

In 2020, Tomlinson faced backlash after referring to phrases attributed to African-American Vernacular English as "internet culture".[31][32]

Awards and nominations
Award Year Recipient(s) and nominee(s) Category Result Ref.
Break the Internet Awards 2019 Herself TikToker of the Year Won [33]
Shorty Awards 2020 TikToker of the Year Nominated [34]
Streamy Awards 2020 Subject Award - Comedy Nominated [18]
WOWIE Awards 2020 Outstanding TikTok - Comedy Won [35]

References
  1. "About Brittany_Broski". YouTube.
  2. "Brittany (@brittany_broski) Official TikTok | Watch Brittany's Newest TikTok Videos". TikTok. Retrieved February 6, 2022.
  3. "Kombucha Girl is HOW OLD?!". Older Than / Younger Than. March 16, 2020. MTV Access. MTV. "I was born on May 10, 1997, which makes me 22, and a Taurus.".
  4. Kircher, Madison Malone (August 16, 2019). "Talking With the Kombucha-Sipping Artiste Behind This Summer's Best TikTok". Vulture. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
  5. I Accidentally Became A Meme: Kombucha Girl (YouTube series). August 26, 2020. Retrieved September 28, 2020. I graduated college. I graduated in three years. I was magna cum laude.
  6. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Kombucha Girl Drag Transformation with Brittany Broski. YouTube.
  7. Greenspan, Rachel E. (December 17, 2019). "Going Viral on TikTok Lost 'Kombucha Girl' Her Job. But It May Make Her Dreams Come True". Time. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
  8. Jennings, Rebecca (August 25, 2020). "How "kombucha girl" revolutionized internet fame". Vox. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
  9. Emanuel, Daniella (August 13, 2019). "This "Woman Trying Kombucha" Meme Is Super Relatable And Super Viral". BuzzFeed. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
  10. Skinner, Paige (August 20, 2019). "Dallas' Brittany Tomlinson's Kombucha Reaction TikTok Is Twitter's Latest Meme". Dallas Observer. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
  11. Bogel-Burroughs, Nicholas (August 23, 2019). "'I'm Sick of Seeing My Face,' Says the Internet's Kombucha Connoisseur". The New York Times. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
  12. Carlisle, Madeleine (December 10, 2019). "TikTok Releases Its List of 2019's Top Memes, Videos, Dance Challenges and More". Time. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
  13. Frier, Sarah; Wagner, Kurt (February 27, 2020). "TikTok Marketers Chase Billions of Views in Uncharted Terrain". Bloomberg News. Retrieved January 15, 2021.
  14. Tenbarge, Kat (February 7, 2020). "Move over Hype House: 2 of the most recognizable internet comedians have teamed up to make a new kind of influencer apartment after being fired the same week". Insider. Retrieved November 9, 2020.
  15. Lorenz, Taylor (August 14, 2020). "Trying to Make It Big Online? Getting Signed Isn't Everything". The New York Times. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
  16. "'Reality House' Season 2 - Meet the Cast of YouTube Stars". Distractify. November 18, 2019. Retrieved October 17, 2021.
  17. Honkus, Mary (July 30, 2020). "TikTok Stars Noah Beck and Griffin Johnson Star in New YouTube Cooking Competition". People. Retrieved January 15, 2021.
  18. Ramos, Dino-Ray (October 21, 2020). "YouTube Streamy Awards Nominations Unveiled With David Dobrik, Emma Chamberlain And James Charles Leading The Pack". Deadline. Retrieved December 6, 2020.
  19. Lee, Janet W. (December 31, 2020). "A Guide to New Year's Eve Livestream Concerts: From BTS and Justin Bieber to Jason Isbell and Bob Weir". Variety. Retrieved January 15, 2021.
  20. Dickson, E. J. (November 18, 2020). "An Oral History of 'Ratatouille: The Musical'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved January 15, 2021. Jacobson's song went viral after Brittany Broski, a creator with 5.8 million TikTok followers, posted a TikTok using Jacobson's sound, on top of footage of a life-size Remy dancing at Disney World.
  21. "Creators join Brittany Broski on the new "For You Podcast"". TikTok Newsroom. August 16, 2019. Retrieved April 15, 2021.
  22. "Bug-Eyed TikTok Bitch with Brittany Broski - The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya". YouTube. Retrieved April 15, 2021.
  23. The Unhinged Holiday Special (with Brittany Broski), retrieved February 6, 2022
  24. Ranking MORE Celebrity Alcohol Brands (with Brittany Broski), retrieved February 6, 2022
  25. Ending the Internet (with Brittany Broski), retrieved February 6, 2022
  26. Brittany Broski Talks Disney, One Direction & Farting in Public | TT2M Premiere, February 1, 2022, retrieved February 6, 2022
  27. "Violating Community Guidelines with Brittany Broski and Sarah Schauer". Spotify. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
  28. Kaplan, Josh (February 6, 2020). "Kombucha Girl: 'My life changed when I went viral on TikTok'". The Telegraph. Retrieved October 10, 2020.
  29. Prior, Tom (December 22, 2020). "The 20 Best TikToks of 2020". i-D. Retrieved January 15, 2021.
  30. Kelly, Alyssa (December 10, 2020). "People Who Made Us Laugh in 2020 - TikTok Saturday Night Live Benny Drama". L'Officiel USA. Retrieved January 15, 2021.
  31. Mendez II, Moises (August 1, 2020). "'Kombucha Girl' slammed for saying AAVE is 'internet culture'". The Daily Dot. Retrieved January 15, 2021.
  32. Lothian-McLean, Moya (August 3, 2020). "Why people are arguing about whether 'internet culture' is actually racist". indy100. Retrieved January 15, 2021.
  33. "Here Are Your 2019 Break the Internet Awards™ Winners". PAPER. January 14, 2020. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
  34. Perelli, Amanda (March 10, 2020). "Exclusive: All the finalists for this year's Shorty Awards, which won't be a physical event for the first time in 12 years because of the coronavirus". Business Insider. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
  35. "World of Wonder's 2020 WOWIE Awards Winners!". World of Wonder. December 5, 2020. Retrieved December 26, 2020.
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