21-year old Internet celebrity Tony Lopez is very popular for his dance content. However, he’s also very controversial. Controversy can be good or bad when it comes to making money via social media. Let’s take a look at the story of Tony Lopez including Tony Lopez’s net worth.
Who Is Tony Lopez?
The U.S. Sun explains that Tony Lopez is a 21-year-old Internet celebrity. He was born in August 1999 in Las Vegas, Nevada. PopBuzz adds that he’s a multi-racial Internet star with a Cuban dad and a mom whose ethnic background is a combination of German, English, and Scottish ancestry. He’s known in large part for his membership in The Hype House Collective. His brother Ondreaz is also a Hype House member. PopBuzz reports that they have another brother, Xavier, who is not part of The Hype House.
What Is The Hype House Collective?
Imagine getting nearly twenty different young people together. Put them into a mansion in Los Angeles. Then give them the freedom to create and share content online. That’s the idea, and a successful one, behind the Hype House Collective. There are 19 different TikTok influencers in the group, including Tony and his brother.
PopBuzz notes that The Hype House is behind two huge social media stars: Charli D’Amelio and Addison Rae. They also note that as of August 2021, The Hype House has been working to change its image. Due to controversies around both Hype House brothers, its unclear what relationship they’ll have with the collective in the months and years to come.
Lopez Brothers’ Controversy
So, what exactly is this controversy? Film Daily explains that both brothers have been accused multiple times of inappropriate sexual conduct, including inappropriate behavior with minors. Tony Lopez was often the focus of these allegations, although both brothers have been accused. One of the most problematic accusations was that Tony Lopez reportedly asked an underage girl for sexually explicit photos, an allegation that he denies. He’s had his own nudes leaked online, reportedly due to catfishing.
Things got worse in early 2021. Two minors sued Tony Lopez for ““sexual battery and emotional distress.” then brother Ondreaz was sued for having sex with a 14-year-old girl. The latter brother has stayed mostly silent on the accusations. In contrast, Tony Lopez is vocal about denying all claims. Film Daily reports that he’s tried to fix things online with some blanket apologies that most followers find to be insincere, inauthentic and/or incomplete.
The sexual misconduct allegations are at the heart of the Lopez Brother’s controversy. However, Film Daily reports that old tweets from circa 2019 reveal that Tony Lopez has posted “racist, homophobic, and mysoginist” content in the post.
Note that at this time these are all allegations. To our knowledge nothing has been proven “beyond a reasonable doubt.” That said, this kind of controversy does affect Tony Lopez’s net worth. For example, Skincare brand Bliss chose to stop working with the influencer due to these allegations.
Tony Lopez’s Social Media Following
Tony Lopez is obviously known best as a TikTok content creator. He has close to 23 million followers and over 1 billion likes on the site. He only follows about 315 people from his account. The U.S. Sun calls him “one of the most-followed viral creators on TikTok.”
Tony Lopez also has a relatively strong following on Instagram. More than 5.5 million people follow him there, although he has fewer than 200 posts on the site. He follows less than 80 people there on Instagram. Like many influencers, it’s not about who he follows but instead about gaining the following of others.
He has a Twitter account with a little over 400,000 followers.
Tony and Ondreaz have a YouTube account together called The Lopez Brothers. It only has a little bit of content on it, yet it does have more than 1.5 million subscribers. Tony Lopez videos are regularly popular on other YouTube channels as well. A dance compilation on Viral Crunch from 2020 has received over half a million views. A Slowmo Dance tutorial on the Flighthouse channel received a similar number of views.
Hype House Social Media
Obviously, Tony Lopez’s net worth is supplemented by his relationship with The Hype House. Therefore the collective’s social media plays a role, too. Here are some of those numbers:
- Nearly 20 million TikTok followers with over 650 million likes.
- Over 5.5 million Instagram followers despite just over 100 posts.
- Over 1.6 million YouTube followers.
- They’re also on music video app Triller, where they have about 40,000 followers.
Tony Lopez Personal Life
The U.S. Sun reports that as of August 2021, Tony Lopez was not dating anyone. However, they link him romantically to past relationships with Sofie Dossi and Nikita Dragun. Sofie Dossi was on America’s Got Talent in 2016, where she showed off her skills as a contortionist and aerialist. She is now a social media star showcasing those same talents. Nikita Dragun is also social media personality, known mostly for her make-up and modeling content. She is also a Hype House Collective member.
What the U.S. Sun reports about his current relationship status is only part of the story. TMZ explains that Tony Lopez was briefly married to Sarah-Jade Bleau. She is also a dance content creator and influencer on social media. However, she filed for legal separation this year after only eight months of marriage.
Tony Lopez’s Net Worth
So we know that Tony Lopez earns his money as a social media influencer, primarily for his dance content, which he grew in large part thanks to his relationship with The Hype House collective. But what exactly is Tony Lopez’s net worth? Celebrity Net Worth, which is one of the most reliable resources for this type of information, places Tony Lopez’s net worth at approximately $2 million.
We aren’t sure how this year’s divorce may or may not impact Tony Lopez’s net worth. TMZ reports that Sarah-Jade Bleau wanted to establish guidelines that prevent alimony from being paid by either of them. Furthermore, she claims about $300,000 from their mutual checking account belongs to her.
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