Teenager’s collection of 37,000 tadpoles turns her into a TikTok star

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“TikTok tadpole influencer” is not a career path that Hannah McSorley would have been told about at school. In lockdown, however, with her GSCEs on hold, the 17-year-old has turned a time-honoured pastime – collecting frogspawn – into a potentially lucrative online empire.

McSorley’s hypnotic daily videos of her tens of thousands of tadpoles have attracted 535,000 followers on TikTok as @.baby.frogs, leading to a deal with a US influencer agency.

“I’m honestly amazed by the following I have,” she said. “It’s just the simple things: tadpoles, frogs. People find it fascinating.”

“I always say there’s 37,928,” McSorley said. “I call it a generous estimate.”

After extensive online research and consulting the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA), McSorley began feeding her tadpoles boiled lettuce or spinach daily and changes their pool water fortnightly. “A good rule of thumb is four tadpoles per litre of water,” she writes, a large enough quantity to protect against losses.

McSorley is interested in training as a vet, but also has plans to launch an educational YouTube channel in time to capitalise on frogspawn season early next year. In the meantime she has signed with the US influencer agency Markerly to grow her reach.

https://www.tiktok.com/@.baby.frogs?lang=en

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/07/teenager-hannah-mcsorley-collection-tadpoles-tiktok-star-northern-ireland

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I miss my newts   I was a kid, they were so cute, I also had a little frog but the sea snail ate it

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THIS B*TCH MAKING THEM GO EXTINCT

[Sepsami 20,977]

Sis can take care of 37k tadpoles and I'm struggling trying to get my obese goldfish back to good health

[Emigrante 9,994]

how in hell is she able to keep 37 thousands of tadpoles. wtf

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I hate frogs so much I would never even touch that girl