Mr. Prada / MrPrada

About

MrPrada, also known as Mr. Prada or Terryon Ishmael Thomas, refers to a TikTok creator notorious for stealing other creators' jokes and content on TikTok. The user went viral in October 2022 after several people pointed out his habit of copying other creators' jokes, and soon after, MrPrada admitted to doing so and feeling no shame or regret about it. In November 2022, the TikTok account "MrPrada77" was banned; however, he returned to app under the usernames @Mr.prada44 and @Mr.prada47. In Septembr 2024, Mr. Prada was arrested in connection to the murder of Baton Rouge, Louisana therapist William Nicholas 'Nick' Abraham.

Origin

Before the suspension of his original account in November 2022, MrPrada was notorious for copying jokes and TikTok ideas from fellow creators, and sometimes getting more likes and views on his content than the original.

The earliest known video of MrPrada admitting to stealing content is a screenrecording of a TikTok "Live," posted on October 2nd by @4k.vsp,^[1] gathering 870,000 plays and 110,000 likes in over two months (seen below, left). He repeats the sentiment in another live, screenrecorded and posted by @xavierluver^[2] on October 9th, 2022, gathering over 63,000 plays and 6,400 likes in over two months (seen below, right).

Spread

MrPrada's practice of unabashedly copying others' TikToks led to a trend where people posted videos naming themselves as "MrPrada77 Victims" after finding out that he stole their video ideas.

On October 5th, TikToker^[3] @barbiebleach posted a video joking about MrPrada77 finding his videos, gathering over 7 million plays and 1.5 million likes in over two months (seen below, left). On October 18th, 2022, TikToker^[4] @akyraasimone posted a video calling herself a MrPrada77 victim, gathering over 850,000 plays and 270,000 likes in over a month (seen below, right).

On November 19th, TikToker @sophiaacsta^[5] posted a video explaining how she figured out that MrPrada was stealing videos from other languages, in this case, Portuguese. The video gathered nearly 50,000 plays and over 6,000 likes, with many commentators joking about how "hardworking" MrPrada is (seen below).

Mr. Prada Therapist Murder Arrest

The Mr. Prada Therapist Murder Arrest refers to the arrest of TikToker Mr. Prada, Terryon Ishmael Thomas, who was accused of murdering therapist William Nicholas "Nick" Abraham in September 2024. The Baton Rouge, Louisiana therapist, known locally as "Dr. Nick," was found dead along Highway 51 in nearby Tangipahoa Parish, LA. In a viral news report, CCTV photos of the main "person of interest" were released and many on TikTok and Twitter / X said that the man pictured was Mr. Prada. Many TikTokers reacted to the images and made claims that Mr. Prada had been abused by his therapist, drawing a correlation between Nicholas Abraham's 2015 arrest for allegedly molesting one of his 11-year-old patients. Viral videos concerning the subject spread online. On October 1st, Mr. Prada was arrested in Dallas, Texas.

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