Haliey Welch is continuing to set the record straight about her life after that viral NSFW video.
Haliey Welch, known to the Internet as the viral “hawk tuah” girl, is giving her followers an update on life amid her newfound social media fame.
Since her NSFW man-on-the-street interview went viral, which has even led her to rub shoulders with big names like Shaquille O’Neal and Zach Bryan, Welch shared a video on Instagram earlier this week, detailing some “awesome” and not-so-great things she’s dealing with now.
Among the not-so-great things, aside from dealing with imposter accounts on social media, Welch asked people to stop asking if she has an OnlyFans account.
“Stop asking me for the link in bio for my OnlyFans,” Welch said. “I don’t have an OnlyFans and there will never be an OnlyFans.”
“I just make funny jokes,” Welch added. “That’s all I do.”
On the bright side, Welch mentioned that she overcame her “stage fright” with the help of Zach Bryan, whom she recently performed with at Nissan Stadium in Nashville.
“I sang in front of 80,000 people with Zach Bryan the other night,” she said in the clip. “And I can’t sing for s—. But I did it anyway.”
She also quit her job at a bed spring factory, something she had already revealed in an interview with Brianna LaPaglia on the Plan Bri Uncut podcast.
Welch’s quick rise to internet fame was sparked within the last month, when the 21-year-old Nashville resident appeared in a video with TikTok creators Tim and Dee TV on June 11. In the clip, Welch was asked about “one move in bed that makes a man go crazy every time,” before she gave her now-famous line: “Oh you gotta give him that ‘hawk tuah.’”
“I was being a bit of a smart a– too, ’cause like you’re gonna come up to me with a microphone and ask me something like that?” she said during the podcast interview. “I [didn’t] mean nothing by it [at the time].”
With all the buzz surrounding her, Welch told LaPaglia during their interview last week that she intends to move to Los Angeles. Earlier this month, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that Welch signed with management firm The Penthouse.
On Instagram, she mentioned plans to address the issue of counterfeit merchandise being made in her likeness.
“I just hired a manager and I hired an attorney so we’re coming for you b—–. But don’t worry I’m launching my merch store,” she said, before holding up a “Hawk Tuah 24′” trucker hat.
