A street interview with creators Tim & Dee TV and Tennessee native Haliey Welch and her response to a random sexually related question saw the 22-year-old become the ‘viral sensation’ of the summer last year.
Welch became known as the ‘hawk tuah’ girl and called time on her job at a local factory and focused on taking advantage of her new-found overnight fame.
Welch was paid handsome sums of money to appear at many high profile events and even threw the first pitch at a New York Mets game last August.
Crypto crash
Welch was astute in copyrighting her ‘catchphrase’ and as the money rolled in from merchandise sales, she also launched a crypto meme coin called $Hawk and began advertising it on social media for fans to invest in the coin which almost immediately saw its monetary value drop.
A late December post on her X account relating to what many fans called ‘a scam’ was her last public communication until now …
Faze Banks interview
Welch spoke to self titled ‘crypto gamer’ (FaZe) Banks as part of her podcast series where she opened up on the fallout from the $Hawk coin experience.
In the interview she stated: “I feel really bad for all the people that got affected by it,” adding, “and it just didn’t go the way I planned.”
She did acknowledge that the ‘biggest mistake’ was trusting the guy who was a ‘friend of a friend’ in taking on this crypto deal.
“I probably should have looked into him a little bit more,” Welch added.
Banks later posted that the podcast should never have been released until a series of criteria were met and ordered Welch to ‘fire her fucking team’.
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