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Internet personality, actress, singer
Lia Marie Johnson (born November 23, 1996) is an American actress, singer, and Internet personality, who in 2014 was profiled by Adweek as one of the "10 biggest young stars on YouTube".[2] She first received recognition for her work on her YouTube channel, where she rose to fame for creating skits and song covers. She also made appearances in the Fine Brothers web series Kids React (2010–2011).
Johnson starred in the sketch comedy series AwesomenessTV (2013–2014), where she was recognized for portraying Terry the Tomboy, whom she also played in the Nickelodeon television movie Terry the Tomboy (2014). In 2015, Johnson made her singing debut with the single "Moment Like You". The following year, she signed with Capitol Records, and released the single "DNA", which was featured in the YouTube Premium film The Thinning (2016), which she also starred in as Ellie Harper, a role she reprised in its sequel The Thinning: New World Order (2018). She also starred in the web series T@gged (2016–2018).
Since January 2020, Johnson has been subject to much media coverage following a harassment incident on her Instagram live by her producer, Steven Wetherbee, which led to claims of her being a victim of exploitation, leading to the #SaveLiaMarieJohnson movement. She has also been accused of substance abuse following concerning behaviors in her media appearances following.
Johnson was born in Wahiawa, Hawaii. She has four sisters and a brother. Her family eventually settled in California.[3] In 2012, in a combined episode of Teens React and Elders React about the 2012 United States presidential election, Johnson stated that she is a Democrat.[4]
Johnson's YouTube account was created in 2007, with videos uploaded by her mother which featured her performances at talent shows,[5] and church recitals.[6] After two years, Johnson began to control the output of the channel, creating content that has come to include personal commentary, sketch comedy, and musical performances.[5]
In 2010, Johnson began to work with the Fine Brothers as a recurring guest on their Kids React series.[3] This exposure increased the traffic to her own channel and became an early source of her online fame. In the aftermath of the initial series episodes, she was surprised by the phenomenon of strangers knowing her and approaching her as fans, and remarked "I think Kids React was my very first viral video, 'cus everyone knew my name after that."[5]
In 2011, Johnson was added to the recurring cast of the spin-off series Teens React, and in 2014 was moved again to the newly established YouTubers React, which featured herself and various well known YouTube personalities. In 2014, Johnson appeared at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards,[7] and starred in Terry the Tomboy, a spin-off film based on the eponymous character she portrays on the Nickelodeon sketch comedy series, AwesomenessTV.[8]
In 2015 she covered the single "Latch" by Disclosure, singing with Alejandro Luis Manzano of Boyce Avenue, and released it on YouTube. The song was originally performed by singer Sam Smith. Johnson has also been featured on the covers of Adweek and BYou Magazine.[6][8] On January 9, 2015, Johnson released her first single, "Moment Like You", along with a music video which can be found on her YouTube channel.[9] She appeared in the music video for Post Malone's single "Go Flex", which was released on April 28, 2016.
On September 28, she explained to her fans that she had signed to Capitol Records, and was continuing to work on the music album she had been recording for the previous two years.[10] The following month she released her first single produced by Howard Benson through Capitol Records titled "DNA"[11] which surpassed 29 million Spotify streams.[12] On February 17, 2017 Johnson released her second single "Cold Heart Killer". The music video for the song was released on March 10, 2017. A year later, Johnson debuted her third single “Champagne” on May 17, 2018.
Starting mid November of 2019, Lia teased a new project on her Instagram page, with one promotional photo being posted everyday.[13] Seven days later, Lia announced her fourth single titled, "Moonflower," on November 23, 2019. Johnson released her fifth single, “Like a God”, on March 12, 2020.
Johnson's Instagram presence has been publicly concerning as she has been accused of live streaming under the influence of alcohol several times.[14][15] Concerns have also been raised regarding the relationship between Johnson and her producer Steven Wetherbee, who has been accused of inappropriately touching Johnson without her consent. In January 2020, Wetherbee appeared on Johnson's Instagram live stream, groping an intoxicated Lia off-camera, before Wetherbee became alarmed of her audience observing this live. Johnson later stated that the police had visited her.[16] Wetherbee was then seen to have taken her phone, ending her stream.[17][18] In response to the situation, Lia's fanbase has responded with #SaveLiaMarieJohnson in an attempt to push actions against Steven Wetherbee.[19][20]
Johnson's boyfriend, Ryan Bowers, passed away in July 2020. She released several singles with him in the months prior to his death.[21]
In late 2020, she stated on her Instagram Live that she had been sober for months after going to rehab. She also mentioned her sobriety in a comment on the platform.[22][23]
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In November 2012, the Fine Brothers Entertainment YouTube channel uploaded another segment of the Emmy award-winning series "Kids React" featuring Lia Marie Johnson, who was 15 at the time.
She and a cast of other kids reacted to a viral video of Amanda Todd, the 15-year-old Canadian victim of cyberbullying who died by suicide after a stranger convinced her to flash her breasts during a video chat, took screenshots of her, and distributed them.
Before her death, Todd made a now-infamous video of herself holding up flashcards detailing her experiences, which included anxiety and depression, drug and alcohol abuse, and multiple suicide attempts.
In the "Kids React" segment about Todd's video, Johnson cried throughout her appearances and talked about being bullied herself in middle school, when boys told her she had the body of "an 8-year-old little boy."
"When I got to high school, stuff about boys didn't really matter, you know," she said. "But stuff online got a little bit worse. You're gonna have it your whole life, no matter what shape or form it is in."
Johnson's appearances on "Kids React" propelled her to her own internet stardom over the next eight years, and in 2014 Adweek profiled her as one of the top 10 "biggest young stars on YouTube." She starred in the Nickelodeon movie "Terry the Tomboy" and appeared alongside Logan Paul in the YouTube Red movies "The Thinning" and its sequel.
She is also a recording artist, and in 2016 announced she had signed with Capitol Records to produce an album. Johnson's most popular single, "DNA," has been listened to more than 36 million times on Spotify.
Social media buzz has resurfaced around Johnson since the start of 2020, but not concerning her career. Since 2017, Johnson's fans have noticed her online presence start to deteriorate, and instead of polished appearances on YouTube or in digital series, Johnson has instead streamed her own worry-inducing Instagram Lives where she appears to be intoxicated.
Lately, search results for Johnson on YouTube yield drama and commentary channels dissecting her so-called unraveling. Online, fans and other YouTubers have called for Johnson's friends and family to step up and care for her, while hashtags like "#SaveLiaMarieJohnson" trended on Twitter.
Insider spoke with two sources close to Johnson about her support system and the circumstances behind the disturbing Instagram Live that appeared to show her former producer kissing her, which prompted widespread concern. Johnson herself did not respond to Insider's multiple requests for comment.
The sources are known to Insider, but due to concerns over professional repercussions, have been granted anonymity in this story.
In her various livestreams, Johnson discussed a number of sensitive subjects — including the use of drugs and racial slurs — and appeared heavily intoxicated. She also talked about killing herself. Many of these videos have been screen recorded and re-uploaded online.
On January 2, her livestream took a dark turn when an unseen figure put on the song "A Thousand Years" by Christina Perri, the love song written for "The Twilight Saga."
"I'm not ready to die," Johnson said, followed by a man's voice saying "This is the s---."
"I'm ready for my song," she continued, as the person sits next to her, out of frame, and appears to pull her closer to him. There were audible kissing sounds before Johnson said "I think I need more wine," and poured herself some from a bottle.
While laughing, Johnson then said, "No one can save me though," and the man asked her if she was on Instagram. He emphatically asked her if she was "Really on Instagram," and then said "You can't be on Instagram" and "Tell me the truth."
Taking the phone, the man said "OK, so to heck with that. Now, we're going back to us. I'm hijacking your phone." His face appeared in the frame and Johnson could be heard saying "No" after "We're going back to us."
Later, as Johnson livestreamed again to angrily tell fans to stop sending police to her location, seemingly the same man can be heard in the background saying, "Lia, I need this to not go out because it will affect my work."
Two formerly close associates of Steven Wetherbee identified him to Insider as the man in the video. Wetherbee, a 67-year-old producer and photographer, has worked with Johnson since she was 12.
Wetherbee initially responded to Insider's request for comment, but did not respond to repeated requests for an interview. After Johnson's livestream, he deleted or deactivated all of his social media profiles besides the website for Golden Track Recording Studios, which he owns and where the livestream took place.
Since Johnson's livestream, a source told Insider that Wetherbee has continued to work with production and photography clients, but the source also says Johnson has not seen him since that night.
Both sources described Wetherbee as having a parental role, "like a grandfather," to Johnson over the past decade. He was a member of her "sober team" of individuals who have been committed to keeping Johnson away from drugs and alcohol since her dependency first started affecting her career in 2017, the sources said.
While concerned fans have repeatedly questioned where Johnson's friends and family have been throughout her public ordeal, a source from her "sober team" told Insider that Johnson has "had every support system" possible, including multiple attempts to receive treatment through hospitals and rehabilitation facilities.
Since Johnson is now 23, the source said her immediate family has not been able to establish guardianship over her that could allow them to make medical decisions for her. Rather, Johnson is now largely on her own, using her Instagram account with more than 1.4 million followers to crowdsource places to sleep at night.
While fans and other YouTubers may be scared for Johnson's safety, other corners of the internet have been encouraging her erratic behavior for their own enjoyment.
On Reddit, pornographic subreddits dedicated to YouTubers and celebrities feature popular content of Johnson. There is a dedicated "r/liamariejohnson" subreddit with more than 42,000 members, rivaling subreddits for A-list celebrities like "r/mileycyrus" (39,900 members) and "r/Rihanna" (34,000 members).
Subreddits for famous women include PG-rated content, but top posts are generally the most scandalous images found of them. On "r/mileycyrus," for example, the top two posts are an Instagram photo of Cyrus wearing a thong and a GIF of her crawling face-first into a car's backseat from the music video for "Nothing Breaks Like a Heart."
Reddit was one of the epicenters of the iCloud leaks of hacked celebrity photos referred to colloquially as "The Fappening," and while the platform worked to eradicate leaked nude photos, it hosts a thriving voyeur community, so it's not entirely shocking that its audience favors an objectifying view of celebrity women.
The content on the "r/liamariejohnson" subreddit was described by documentary YouTuber j aubrey as "strangely perverse," but it fits the general theme of what at first may appear to be fan pages on the platform, and are really more like sexual catalogs of various famous women.
But unlike those searching for Cyrus' provocative photoshoots, more ethical concerns may be raised by purveyors of "r/liamariejohnson" and "r/YouTubersGoneWild," a similarly subreddit devoted to strictly YouTubers, where imagery of Johnson performs very well — the top post of all time is her flashing her genitalia on an Instagram Live when she appeared to be intoxicated.
While Johnson was the one to stream herself naked, it's at the very least morally dubious behavior to capture the moment and post it on a public platform. And yet, the commentators on Reddit aren't particularly worried.
"Dude she was high af in that live stream. I waited for like an hour for something to happen but ended up with nothing. And ofc as soon as I leave, this happens," reads the top comment on the post. "Knew there would be my homies screen recording it. Thank you boys."
The behavior described in the post, of people watching Johnson's livestreams to see if she acts promiscuously, is evident in the comments that pop up on her videos, where Instagram users regularly suggest she expose herself or encourage her to consume more substances.
During the stream with the man suspected to be Wetherbee, once Johnson took off her sweater, comments like "Can you do jumping jacks," "Moan louder we can't hear anything," "say the n word lia," and "Flash" floated across the screen, accompanied by people encouraging her to drink more alcohol and speculation about which drugs she might be on.
It's different than YouTubers posting nude photos of themselves to thwart hackers or to celebrate their bodily autonomy — it's an audience goading an already vulnerable person into further risky behaviors.
Johnson is well above the legal age of consent now, and her subreddit is age-restricted. It was created in March 2012, when she was 15. It's unclear whether she was sexually objectified as minor on the subreddit, but over the past eight years, it has become almost singularly dedicated to her sexual exploitation.
Insider reached out to every Reddit moderator of "r/liamariejohnson" and "r/YouTubersGoneWild," and either did not receive a response or did not receive responses to questions asked.
"Lia marie johnson" also trended no. 1 on PornHub, the largest online pornography platform, the day after Johnson's Instagram Live with the man. PornHub did not respond to Insider's request for comment.
While the dominant online sentiment toward Johnson may appear to be concern for her wellbeing, there's an undercurrent of voyeurism in her audience that finds strength in numbers on platforms like Reddit and PornHub.
The source close to Johnson told Insider that she consistently monitors internet activity about herself and is easily persuaded by commentators, and that behavior tracks with her reading and responding to comments in many of her Instagram Lives. The source also said some of the nude imagery circulating of "Johnson" is fake.
According to the source close to Johnson, she is not currently living with any members of her "sober team" or their families, as she has in the past. Rather, she has been living in Airbnbs and making content with people like Ryan Bowers, a San Diego-based producer and rapper who Johnson recently released a SoundCloud track with, according to that same source.
Insider spoke with Kati Morton, a therapist, author, and YouTuber specializing in mental health topics about how social media fame coincides with mental illness and substance abuse, and what concerned fans can do.
"There's a lot of resources online and making them aware of it is probably the only way, because the other thing we all have to remember is that we can't make someone get better or get help," Morton said, referencing tools like crisis hotlines and text lines. "They have to want to do it themselves."
The source close to Johnson echoed Morton's suggestions and said the best online response Johnson could receive right now is people being supportive of her and encouraging her to get sober.
They also referred to speculative posts by major sources of YouTube news and drama online who claimed to know Johnson had been diagnosed with specific mental illnesses. The source said Johnson has never been officially diagnosed, while Johnson herself has confirmed via Instagram Live that she does not have a specific diagnosis.
"This is an unfortunate thing about the internet, but a lot of people make their living off other people's lives," Morton said. "So the drama channels and the people who want to weigh in on other mental illnesses really bother me, because nobody has a right to weigh in on that except the person involved in that."
Morton suggested that fans avoid engaging with speculative content about Johnson, and that people online refrain from making assumptions about mental health disorders she may or may not have — as well as being positive in their engagement with Johnson's own content, or not engaging with it at all.
"Recovery is possible and things can get better, and we need to be more aware of things that we watch and digest online," Morton said. "People want to weigh in and get those views, but we have to work together to not perpetuate the exploitation of people's struggles."
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