After tragedy, Spencer Pratt is giving fans a glimpse of what it’s like to be a content creator.
A week after his and Heidi Montag‘s family home in Pacific Palisades, Calif. burned down in a wildfire, the Hills alum spoke about his earnings from social media.
“I made, like, $4,000 on TikTok this week,” Spencer told Variety in an interview published Jan. 17, “but on TikTok Live, where people can just give to me direct, I think maybe $20,000. So that’s phenomenal, and life-changing. That’s the power of individual supporters, people just backing you and getting behind you.
The 41-year-old continued, “And that’s the most powerful when you don’t have to rely on ads or AI and algorithms when just actual human beings just want to give. It’s unbelievable and incredible.”
Spencer’s interview was published a day before TikTok stopped working for some 170 million U.S. users due to a law that was to shut it down for national security reasons. The Chinese-owned group said Jan. 19 said in a statement on X, “In agreement with our service providers, TikTok is in the process of restoring service.”
