# Nash Grier Nash Grier is a North Carolina teenager who became the biggest star on Vine in early 2014, racking up over five million followers with six-second slapstick clips featuring his siblings and friends[1]. His fast rise from anonymous high schooler to social media celebrity made him one of the defining faces of the short-form video boom, though a homophobic Vine he later deleted turned him into a lightning rod for controversy[2]. ## Origin Grier joined Instagram on April 9th, 2013 and started posting to Vine a week later on April 16th[3]. He was a typical user with a small circle of friends and family watching until July 2013, when Arkansas high schooler Tiffiny Semashko reshared one of his clips with her 300,000 followers[1]. Three weeks after that reshare, Grier's account had crossed 200,000 followers[2]. His breakout Vine featured him asking Skylynn what was wrong with America, to which she replied, "They. Need. Jesus."[2] By October 14th, 2013, The Daily Mail reported he had reached 1.4 million Vine followers with only about 12 minutes of total footage posted, making the North Carolina sophomore the 25th most-followed account on the platform[1]. - **Platform:** Vine (viral spread) - **Creator:** Nash Grier - **Date:** 2013 ## Overview Nash Grier's Vine account was built on six-second loops of slapstick bits, song parodies, lip dubs and family gags, most of them shot at home with his younger brother Hayes and four-year-old sister Skylynn[1]. The clips leaned on adolescent humor and visual puns, like cutting into Katy Perry's Roar video to growl at the camera while holding a purring kitten[1]. A Vine of Skylynn singing the Black Eyed Peas' Boom Boom Pow pulled 375,000 likes and 300,000 shares on its own[1]. His pace was the story as much as the content itself. Grier was gaining roughly 100,000 followers a week by the fall of 2013, mixing sibling cameos with quick sketch comedy aimed squarely at other teenagers[2]. By January 2014, he had accumulated 2.2 million Instagram followers, 1.05 million Twitter followers and 960,000 Facebook likes on top of his Vine base[3]. ## How It Spread ABC News covered Grier on October 16th, 2013, noting he had passed Ellen DeGeneres, Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber in Vine followers[2]. He appeared on Inside Edition the same day and was booked for Good Morning America to explain his rise[2]. On November 26th, Redditor lou_sassil posted a screenshot of insulting direct messages allegedly sent by Grier to the r/teenagers subreddit, an early sign that his fanbase would not have him to itself[3]. MTV named him one of the 17 best Viners of 2013 that December[3]. On January 16th, 2014, Grier hit five million Vine followers and took the top spot on the platform worldwide[3]. Four days later he uploaded a YouTube video in which he and other Viners tried to stay silent for two minutes, and Redditor m_chellen reposted it to r/cringe the next day, where it pulled over 1,500 upvotes and 350 comments in 24 hours[3]. The backlash sharpened on July 8th, 2014, when Gawker and Hollywood Life covered a deleted Vine, reuploaded by user MuneraIsFab in April, in which Grier framed an HIV PSA around yelling a homophobic slur[4][5]. YouTuber Tyler Oakley amplified the clip on Twitter, pulling over 7,000 retweets and 14,000 favorites within 48 hours and pushing coverage into wider entertainment media[3]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Nash Grier? Nash Grier is an American video blogger from North Carolina who became the most-followed user on Vine in January 2014 at age 15[3]. ### Where did Nash Grier come from? He started posting to Vine on April 16th, 2013 and went from a small following to over 200,000 followers within three weeks that July after another Viner reshared his clip[1]. ### What does Nash Grier mean? The name refers to Grier himself and the wave of teen Vine celebrities he came to represent, known for six-second slapstick clips featuring siblings and friends[1]. ### How do you use Nash Grier? People typically reference Grier as shorthand for the 2013 to 2014 Vine star era, or share his sibling clips like the Skylynn "They. Need. Jesus." Vine that broke him out[2]. ### Is Nash Grier still popular? His Vine-era peak ended when the app shut down, but he is still remembered as one of the defining accounts on the platform and hit five million Vine followers at his height[3]. ## References 1. [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2459494/Nash-Grier-Vine-followers-Ellen-Miley-Justin-Bieber.html]() 2. [https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2013/10/5-reasons-you-should-know-vine-star-nash-grier/]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/nash-grier]() 4. [https://gawker.com/teen-star-nash-grier-deletes-vine-that-claims-only-gay-1601820295]() 5. [https://hollywoodlife.com/2014/07/08/nash-grier-homophobic-vine-video-deleted-fag/]() 6. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt0PPwaZJc4]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/nash-grier Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library