IN CONVERSATION ■ Tommy Cockram has almost five million followers. Pictures: Ivan Kemp
Tommy Cockram Barwon Heads teenager Tommy Cockram has amassed nearly five million followers on TikTok in just over a year. The 15-year-old speaks with JUSTIN FLYNN about his new-found fame. What do you post about that makes you so interesting? Mystery, horror and creepy videos in general. How creepy or gory? Not visually, but the themes are.
What’s the worst way?
it and see what I can find on there.
Meat grinder. I stopped doing it because I didn’t really like making them. There is one where a girl died because she was glued to the toilet seat. That one got a few views.
Sometimes it takes me hours and hours but usually I can end up coming up with a good idea, but sometimes I don’t. Sometimes it takes me days. I try to post twice a day, but sometimes when I don’t think of ideas I just can’t post for a few days.
What’s the most popular video you have posted?
OK, let’s move on. The topics of your videos are dark and mysterious, but how do you keep coming up with different ideas?
I posted a video called ‘Worst Ways People Have Died’. It’s had 40 million views.
What I’ll do is, when I think of an idea, I’ll Google or YouTube and start researching about
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My favourite videos to make are ‘Terrifying things found by YouTubers’ and ‘Kids board games as horror movies’.
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