Spidey Turan / ShearingShedVlogs

About

Spidey Turan, also known as ShearingShedVlogs or Turan Spidey, is an Australian TikToker and IRL streamer on YouTube most known as a TikTok Lolcow. Turan started posting videos in 2021, focusing on his job as a sheep shearer in Perth, Western Australia. He came to prominence in 2022 and 2023, growing a cult following that watched him travel and document his journeys. In mid-2023, he became increasingly known due to a series of drug-related events, causing him to look visibly snotty and inspiring concern from his viewers. He's additionally addressed his own drug addiction. By some online, he's been compared to both Daniel Larson and World of T-shirts.

Background

Spidey Turan, real name William Turan,^[5] is a 20-year-old influencer originally from Perth, Western Australia. Besides being Australian, he is also a Turkish citizen because his father is from Turkey.^[6] Around the year 2019, Turan struggled with drug addiction and abuse, as well as homelessness.^[8] Also according to Turan, he is diagnosed with both Autism and ADHD. ^[7]

Online History

Spidey Turan started uploading videos to YouTube in mid-2021, uploading his first video to his YouTube^[1] channel Aussieshearingshedvlogs on July 23rd, 2021, gaining roughly 4,300 views in two years (shown below). The video, and many of his videos thereafter, were vlogs that documented his life as a sheep shearer in his hometown of Perth, Western Australia.

A few months later, on November 26th, 2021, Turan uploaded his first TikTok^[2] video to his account @shearingshedvlogs, gaining roughly 1,900 plays in two years (shown below, left). Turan's TikTok account first went viral with a TikTok^[3] uploaded on December 20th, 2021, that was a clip compilation of street interviews in Perth. The video received roughly 455,700 plays and 44,900 likes in two years (shown below, right).

Going into early 2022, Turan's TikTok content mostly focused on sheep shearing, showing clips of him at work in the "shearing shed" (example shown below, left). On March 22nd, 2022, Turan posted his first TikTok^[4] to reach over 1 million plays, gaining roughly 1.1 million plays and 25,200 likes in one year (shown below, right).

In early August 2022, Turan posted two TikTok^[6][7] videos in which he stated that he quit his job as a sheep shearer and was flying to Turkey to enroll in the Turkish military. After being in Turkey for about a month, Turan left the country for the United Kingdom because he said was bored of the country.^[9] He flew to the U.K. and eventually went to Scotland.^[10] From there, he went to the U.S. where he stayed in South Dakota before going to Los Angeles, and later, New York.^[11]

In Los Angeles, Turan's videos gained increased virality. For instance, he uploaded a TikTok^[12] on December 5th, 2022, in which he was screaming, "I have autism and I'm from Australia!" to a man on a train who allegedly stole his phone, gaining roughly 7.2 million plays and 829,000 likes in six months (shown below, left). On December 13th, he uploaded a similar TikTok^[13] about how to stay safe when going to "sketchy areas in LA," gaining roughly 1.2 million plays and 151,700 likes in six months (shown below, right).

Turan's escapades continued going into early 2023, as his videos gained more engagement and virality. In turn, he started a secondary TikTok^[14] account called @spideyturan on March 29th, 2023. He also started a new YouTube^[15] channel called Turan Spidey on March 31st, 2023. On his new YouTube,^[16] he started to IRL livestream, streaming for the first time on March 31st.

Fan Accounts

Predominantly starting in May and June 2023, Spidey Turan gained fan accounts that reposted his videos and organized his lore. For instance, on May 13th, 2023, TikToker^[17] @spideyturanfanpage uploaded a video of Turan shouting out their page, gaining roughly 178,600 plays and 9,500 likes in one month (shown below, left). On June 13th, 2023, TikToker^[18] @kingspideyturan uploaded its first video, gaining roughly 358,600 plays and 18,600 likes in eight days (shown below, right).

Following

By June 21st, 2023, Spidey Turan had amassed roughly 330,300 followers on his primary TikTok^[19] account (@shearingshedvlogs), roughly 51,500 followers on his secondary TikTok^[20] account (@spideyturan) and roughly 5,700 subscribers on his primary YouTube^[21] channel (Turan Spidey).

Various Examples

Search Interest

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