The majority are so unmemorable that I couldn’t name most of them, and very few outside of Hudson and Petrou have a storyline over the course of eight episodes. Ironically, the interesting thing about the majority of the Hype House members, considering their popularity, is how boring they are to watch. While Petrou frets to the camera about working 10- to 12-hour days to fulfill the group’s brand partnership deals, which pay for everything in the house, members like Connor Yates, 23, and Michael Sanzone, 19, lounge around acting like, well, young people who have no adult supervision and very little responsibility. He’s having trouble motivating his posse of mostly indistinguishable white dudebros to contribute to the house’s bottom line (one scene cuts from Petrou lecturing the group about their laziness to a shot of one member throwing a potted plant at another’s sleeping form). This is a problem for Petrou, who is trying to keep the Hype House afloat financially. “We were like a family… it was so much fun just creating content every day, and now times have changed,” Petrou laments, interspersed with nostalgic clips of old Hype House videos.
“Less famous” is all relative everyone in the house has millions of followers on TikTok, but the remaining team does not enjoy the same recognition as its superstar alumni. Today, though, many of the stars have moved on, leaving Petrou to lead a stable of less experienced and less famous creators. The Hype House was started in late 2019 by Hudson and Petrou and at one point counted bonafide TikTok sensations like the D'Amelio sisters (Charli appears briefly in the series, but isn’t interviewed) and Addison Rae among its ranks. Because he's not here, everything in this brand falls on me,” Petrou remarks in one scene, noting in another that Hudson could lift any member to new heights by just posting them on his page every once in a while, but doesn’t. “Chase is the person who made the Hype House what it was. It’s clear he wants to move on - he has moved out of the Hype House into his own mansion - but he’s very aware that his clout was a major factor in the group’s success. Hudson approaches this dilemma with the awkwardness of a first-year college student trying to dump his high school girlfriend during Thanksgiving break. Credited with helping to start an emo revival among Gen Z, Hudson was signed by Interscope Records, and here he seems to realize he needs to leave his old friends behind to advance his music career. Throughout the show’s eight episodes, the members of the house are palpably distressed, consumed with the need to succeed while watching their peers soar to heights they know they might not achieve.Įven Chase “Lil Huddy” Hudson, a founding member who has become a breakout star, is stressed. No one in the house, though, seems to be enjoying themselves. The members of the Hype House, who are all in their late teens and early 20s, live together in a mansion and create content for TikTok as a collective under the assumption that bringing more creators together will make their videos more dynamic and interesting. This line encapsulates the central tension of Hype House, which manages to somehow make being young, rich, and famous in Los Angeles seem horribly depressing.
“Everyone else got too famous,” one says with a laugh.
When they gather - there are maybe 10 or so members - he looks around the room and wonders how the group got so small.
In a scene from Netflix’s new reality show Hype House, 22-year-old Thomas Petrou, the de facto leader of the eponymous TikTok content collaborative, calls a meeting to discuss the members’ lack of hustle.
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