Overview

Ciggybae is the TikTok handle of influencer Whitney Brown. The creator gathered a following on TikTok for supposedly looking like Hollywood movie star Zendaya. Ciggybae gained renewed attention in October 2023 after joining a stream with Kai Cenat where he introduced her as Zendaya while dressed in a black Spider-Man costume.

Online Presence

Ciggybae, whose real name is Whitney Brown, is a 19-year-old TikTok influencer from North Vernon, Indiana. The creator began posting photos to her Instagram @homeskilla_whitnit^[1] in July 2019 and has gathered over 40,000 followers on the platform as of October 2023.

On April 20th, 2022, Brown posted the first video to her TikTok^[2] under the handle @Ciggybae. The video showed her using a filter to determine which Bojack Horseman character best represents her while the main theme song played in the background.

The video gathered over 285,000 views and 4000 likes in a year, with many comments comparing her looks to Hollywood actor Zendaya's appearance in the television show Euphoria (seen below).

Online History

On May 25th, 2022, TikToker^[3] @Ciggybae posted a video with a cardboard cutout of Hollywood actor "Timothée Chalamet." The video was made in reference to the Zendaya and Chalamet Stare meme that went viral in early 2022. @Ciggybae's video gathered over 3.7 million views and 250,000 likes in over a year (seen below, left). On July 7th, 2023, @Ciggybae^[4] posted another video acknowledging how people compare her looks with Zendaya's, gathering over 47 million views and 7 million likes in four months (seen below, right).

On October 19th, 2023, Kai Cenat held a stream ahead of the release of Insomniac's Spider-Man 2 video game. Cenat wore a black Spider-Man suit and invited @Ciggybae onto the stream, calling her Zendaya and pretending as though she was playing her character MJ.

On October 20th, X^[5] user @FearedBuck posted a clip of the stream with the caption, "is that zendaya on kai cenat’s stream????" The post gathered over 83,000 likes in five days (seen below).

is that zendaya on kai cenat’s stream???? pic.twitter.com/9j2Eb5IPgy

— FearBuck (@FearedBuck) October 20, 2023

Also on October 20th, X^[6] user @DiscussingRDC posted another clip from the stream, gathering over 19,000 likes in five days (seen below).

Kai Cenat Calls Mark with “Zendaya” 😂 pic.twitter.com/f2OKuie3Es

— DiscussingRDC (@DiscussingRDC) October 20, 2023

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