“I’d never seen anything like that before. Up until then, maybe I was a little bit in denial that my son was as popular as he really is … I’m like, ‘He’s just our son, he’s just a kid.’ To all these other people, he’s something else.” Behind that teenage TikTok star, there’s probably a very confused parent. (I’m confused and my kids have like 12 followers between them…)

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