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Bobbi Althoff went from sharing parenting tips online to interviewing precocious illustration rappers similar Drake
By Riyah Collins
BBC Newsbeat
If you've been scrolling done societal media recently, chances are you'll person seen clips of Bobbi Althoff popular up.
The 26-year-old US TikToker turned podcaster has gone from sharing gestation updates to interviewing rappers astatine the apical of their game.
Her videos person had implicit 100 cardinal views and astir 200 cardinal likes.
She went viral erstwhile she interviewed Drake, a video which precocious appears to person been removed, causing rumours of a feud.
Bobbi's teaser clips of a speech with Drake successful furniture were archetypal posted successful July.
The afloat video unsurprisingly racked up millions of views connected YouTube, TikTok and Instagram earlier abruptly disappearing.
Some fans online person called it a publicity stunt, portion others accidental Bobbi is not self-made similar she claims, which she rejects.
The US reply to Amelia Dimoldenberg?
Bobbi's known for her awkward and disarming interviewing style.
Her softly spoken and deadpan interviewing benignant has been likened to that of Amelia Dimoldenberg, who hosts Chicken Shop Date.
Amelia besides predominantly interviews rappers and asks probing questions connected the premise of being connected a day with her guests.
In an interrogation with Cosmopolitan, Bobbi described herself much arsenic an entertainer and comedian than a journalist.
"It's not a existent interview. I'm not trying to get hard-hitting accusation astir you."
Her bid of podcast episodes is the 2nd astir fashionable drama podcast connected Spotify successful the US - lone beaten by heavyweight Joe Rogan.
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Image caption,Bobbi has been compared to Chicken Shop Date big Amelia Dimoldenberg
Starting with a banana
If you've been pursuing Bobbi since she archetypal started sharing videos successful 2021, interviewing celebrities mightiness look similar rather a pivot.
Her archetypal TikTok was her dancing with a banana - watched astir 2 cardinal times connected the level - and she past moved to sharing updates from her gestation and beingness arsenic a mum.
She'd station tips and hacks arsenic she balanced raising her 2 daughters, known online arsenic Richard and Concrete.
It wasn't until February this twelvemonth that she shared an update that she had filmed a aviator for her podcast.
She says it's ever been her imagination to person her ain amusement but "everyone I showed it to said it was awful".
"But I proved them wrong."
Since then, her illustration has grown, with a TikTok creation with rapper Armani White watched astir 19 cardinal times.
The Drake interview
But Drake has been her biggest get.
She says she decided to "shoot my shot" with a DM to the aggregate Grammy-award victor asking if helium wanted to beryllium interviewed.
In the video, the brace are seen nether a duvet successful bed, Drake with a cocktail successful hand.
They sermon different rappers, including Tyga who Bobbi claims to person ne'er heard of, and who features connected the astir caller occurrence of her podcast.
While the afloat interrogation has disappeared, abbreviated teaser clips stay connected her YouTube channel.
As good arsenic keeping the clips online, Bobbi has besides kept a video of herself astatine 1 of Drake's concerts successful California from Saturday connected her Instagram illustration aft rumours of a spat betwixt them.
There's been nary authoritative connection from Bobbi oregon Drake implicit this evident feud - and BBC Newsbeat has approached her for remark connected wherefore the video was taken down.
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