He has a shocked expression when men put on skirts, when a man sucks on a straw, or when trans people reveal transformations over time.Īny creator who speaks out against Chris’s content inevitably receives a wave of threats and harassment. Some of his videos, however, feature reactions to LGBTQ creators. In one, his smile drops when a man slams a brick of tofu in his own face in another it’s when cockroaches appear onscreen. The majority of Chris’s videos are reactions to anodyne moments. Nearly all of Chris’s videos follow the same format: a video loops to his right, he smiles, sometimes gives a thumbs up, then something happens in the video and his smile drops. Reaction and commentary TikTok channels are a growing niche on the platform and have been taking off in recent months. “That’s how I got my money.”Ĭhris’s account is known in the TikTok community as a reaction account, an account where someone creates reaction videos that appear alongside other TikToks. (“This account was banned due to multiple community guideline violations,” read a banner atop the account.)
Another one of his accounts had more than 2.2 million followers, but, on Friday afternoon, both of Chris’s backup TikTok accounts were banned as well. Before his account was banned on Tuesday he had amassed more than 2.5 million followers.
Chris, who is 17 and uses the name online, has grown an enormous audience on TikTok.