About

Lele Pons is a Venezula-born American YouTuber, musician and influencer who first gained a following on Vine in 2013. Lele Pons is known for her YouTube comedy sketches, makeup collaboration with Tarte cosmetics line and co-authored book "Surviving Highschool." Although she has won multiple awards for her Vines and videos, Pons has been criticized for creating inappropriate content geared toward children and for being highly competitive.

Online History

In September 2013, Lele Pons joined vine and gained millions of loops after posting a Do it for the Vine (Shown below, left). After Vine, Pons joined YouTube and uploaded her first video on April 27th, 2016. The video which has gained over 11 million views in four years was a comedic cheerleading tryouts skit (shown below, right). In January 2016, Lele Pons co-authored a young adult novel called "Surviving Highschool" with Melissa De La Cruz.^[2]

On April 13th, 2017, Lele Pons uploaded her most popular skit YouTube video called "Terrible High School Teacher" which garnered over 74.5 million views in three years (shown below, left). She has also released several singles, her most popular music video being "Anitta & J Balvin – Downtown (Official Lyric Video) ft. Lele Pons & Juanpa Zurita" which accumulated over 307.5 million views in three years (shown below, right).

Amanda Cerny Feud

On September 13th, 2016, a former friend of Lele Pons and influencer Amanda Cerny released a YouTube video explaining that Pons has deleted several Instagram posts and YouTube videos of hers to sabotage her.^[1] The video gained over 2. million views and 74,000 likes in four years (shown below).

Tarte Cosmetics Collaboration

On November 17th, 2019, Lele Pons announced the launch of her cosmetics collection with Tarte Cosmetics in an Instagram^[3] post captioned " I can’t believe my @tartecosmetics collection is finally here! So grateful to collab with you!We’ve been working on this for over a year now and I’m so excited to share this with you! This collection includes an eye & cheek palette. I created this because I love for my eyes to look HUGE & this palette does that and its so easy to use! Also wanted to share with you what my makeup look is everyday with these signature colors. LINK IN BIO!! Tag me in all your looks! 💜" (shown below). The post gained over 934,900 likes in two months.

Reputation

In 2016, Lele Pons won a Streamy^[9] for "Best Ensemble Cast" and Teen Choice Award^[10] for "Choice Viner." In 2018 she won "Worldwide Instagrammer of the Year" at the MTV Millenial Awards.^[11] As of January 2020, Pons has over 38.3 million followers on Instagram,^[6] 15.6 million YouTube^[7] subscribers and 1.9 million followers on Twitter.^[8]

Nerd City Thot Patrol

On January 8th, 2020, Nerd City uploaded "Lele Pons – ThotPatrol – ft. @maxmoefoe @Rusty Cage @anything4views" to YouTube (shown below). The video which gained over 432,000 views in a day outlined Pons' controversial moments from creating questionable content for children to trying to sabotage Amanda Cerny's career.

Personal Life

In 2011, when Pons was five years old she moved to Miami Florida from Venezuela with her parents. In 2016 she had dated King Bach, Logan Paul and then Ray Diaz who later, after their breakup, was convicted of physically abusing his underaged girlfriend.^[4][5]

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