Who is Bobbi Althoff, and why are X users celebrating her downfall?

The world of social media is aware of the rise and fall of varied influencers every single day. While some go viral in a minute, others lose their profession within the blink of an eye fixed. However, within the case of influencer turned podcaster Bobbi Althoff, it is her failed try at going viral, which is preserving him within the information.
Recently, she is again in limelight for posting an Instagram story with her alleged boyfriend, asserting a brand new season of her podcast which shall be launched on May fifteenth. However, Althoff’s journey started with TikTok reels the place she shared her life as a mother of two and her marriage with her husband. Her rise to fame was credited to her dry humour and witty persona. From 2021 to 2023, Althoff’s constant way of life content material on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube allowed her to achieve an enormous following of just about 3.5M.

Bobbi Althoff’s rise to fame

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In April 2023, Bobbi moved on from the approach to life content material to launch an episode on her ‘The Really Good’ podcast with comic Colleen Bellinger as a visitor. The interview which was later taken down featured an entire lot of awkward conversations which have been appreciated by followers as Bobbi’s dry humour.
While her second interview with content material creator Funny Marco amassed a surprising 5 million views, it was her third interview which put her on the social media map. Althoff interviewed Drake in an uncommon setting, on a mattress, in a clumsy interplay the place she revealed that she had missed her daughter’s first birthday to interview the musician whose songs she had “never heard.” The interview garnered a whopping 10 million views, with Drake additionally commenting on Althoff’s “horrible parenting”
It was round this time that Bobbi’s husband, Cory Althoff, filed for a divorce, citing irreconcilable variations. However, her downfall started with her interview with rapper Offset, who replied to Bobbi in the identical uninterested tone that she utilized in her podcast. The interview included her claiming that the artist’s group reached out to her for an interview, and him addressing that she was not discovered on any website besides TikTok, not even Google.
Slowly and steadily, Bobbi’s following suffered with followers not desirous to see their favorite celebrities be insulted on varied elements, however the icing on the cake was when she cancelled a comedy tour with Funny Marco and launched a tour of her personal. She was now being thought-about an business plant because of her having the identical managing firm as Drake, with whom she was rumoured to have an affair. Additionally, her podcast was dwindling. She tried to begin a vlog sequence, which included one vlog that gained extra dislikes than likes and even had interviews with Forbes and WIRED to assist save her failing profession.
However, followers have been not desirous about Bobbi’s dry interviews and slowly her profession declined to a spot the place she is solely energetic on Instagram.

Why are X users celebrating Bobbi Althoff’s downfall?

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Ever since Bobbi’s failed try at being a podcaster who made folks she interviewed awkward with her assertion went viral, followers realised that her behaviour was not a enjoyable method however somewhat her persona. When requested about her interviewing method, she informed Forbes that it was “no research, just show up” and to WIRED, she shared that she was on a “lifelong journey to earn money”
People on X have been sharing clips from Althoff’s podcast interviews the place she was roasted by large names; writing feedback like, “Each interview I’ve seen of Bobbi Althoff has gotten increasingly worse and worse”, and “I ain’t seen a single clip of that Bobbi girl since Offset cooked her”

It appears that whereas users of social media are prepared to provide an opportunity to new content material, they need not hold its worth if it would not align with their sometimes-shown morals. Althoff’s journey is a gleaming mirror of the truth that whereas distinctive and uncommon personas go viral on social media, those that keep are those who are actual.