Tim Dickerson and DeArius Marlow just wants some credit. In a recent interview with The New York Timesthe two men who filmed the now-viral 'Hawk Tuah Girl' on their behalf YouTube Tim & Dee TV chronicled the shocking and, at times, frustrating past ten days since the release of their infamous video in downtown Nashville.
“At the end of the day, no one would know who she was if we didn't bring it out and publish it,” Marlowe, 24, he said The Times by Hailey Welch, who has now become known by the moniker 'Hawk Tuah Girl'.
“A lot of people in the audience who haven't seen us before think we've grown from that clip,” he continued. “People treated it like we were nobody and didn't already have a platform.”
In the interview, the Nashville duo recalls Welch asking to “amp up the questions” after interviewing her and her friend as part of their grueling “man on the street” interview series. said Dickerson, 25 the times that after Welles uttered her famous line, he thought to himself, “Oh, yeah, that'll be good.”
The disparity of attention between Welch and the men who drew her speaks to some of the complex and implicit racial and gender dynamics embedded in Dickerson and Marlow's racy video Q&As with drunken young women captured at parties on Lower Broadway, one of most notorious roads of the country. . While the duo regularly interview both men and women in their series, it's usually the women who end up in the spotlight.
“It's mostly funny,” Dickerson said. “We're not pushing anyone or anything – we're just capturing the vibe. That's what we do best.”
While the viral moment instantly catapulted Welch into overnight internet fame (and all its attendant consequences), it spawned countless memes, drove her sought-after media appearances, landed her on stadium-sized concert stages, and resulted in assembling a team of managers and lawyerssuch fame (and, crucially, financial windfall) was not so imminent for the two men who shot, edited and set the scene for Welch's moment.
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