TikTok’s Alex and Kellz on their first date, going viral and including to their household.
Each couple has a meet-cute story. Nowadays, 9 occasions out of 10 that story begins with some type of on-line interplay. It’s solely becoming that TikTok’s Alejandra Hernandez Bravo and Kellan Ness, higher often called Alex and Kellz, met by way of a slide into the DMs. “I used to be scrolling by way of Instagram, being a creeper, after which I got here throughout Alex’s profile, so I slid into her DMs,” Kellz says.
“I’d simply taken an image on the health club. He replied saying I used to be trying actually wholesome and we must always go to dinner at 7 p.m.,” Alex provides. “So I learn that after which I left him on learn. I used to be like, ‘I don’t know who this man thinks he’s.’ He stored attempting for perhaps a month after which I noticed him submit this actually humorous factor on his story. I made a decision he was type of humorous and agreed to exit to eat.”
Though it took a little bit of pursual on Kellz’s half, the 2 ultimately met face-to-face and realized there was one thing between them. From there, the connection moved rapidly and by their second date, they had been connecting on an intimate stage. “She’s from Chico, California, and there was an enormous fireplace on the market,” Kellz says. “We went and purchased a bunch of blankets, socks, toothbrushes and different stuff to assist the households who’d misplaced their properties within the fireplace. We obtained to spend so much of time collectively and that’s after we realized that we appreciated one another. Then after a few month, we moved in collectively.”
It’s been two years since Alex took an opportunity on the gent who slid into her DMs and in that point, they’ve completed so much as a pair. They’ve traveled the nation, grown collectively and nonetheless discovered the time to domesticate a TikTok empire. However earlier than they had been incomes hundreds of thousands of views on their web page, they had been flexing their humorous bones and enjoying pranks on each other only for fun. “The very first prank Alex ever did to me was when she made it seem to be she’d left the home, however she was hiding within the walk-in closet,” Kellz says. “I went in there bare and tremendous weak. Then she scared the shit out of me. I believed that nobody else was in the home, so I rattling close to had a coronary heart assault.”
At first, these pranks had been only for them. After some time the 2 realized that this content material was too good to maintain between themselves. They wanted to share it with the world. “It began out as simply random stuff, however then we began posting it on our tales,” Alex says. “We didn’t suppose something of it, simply that it was tremendous humorous. That’s when folks began saying, ‘You guys ought to begin your individual prank web page.’ And we had been like, ‘Yeah, why not?’”
Alex and Kellz started posting their pranks to Instagram however in the end it wasn’t the suitable platform for them. They didn’t understand it on the time, however one thing larger (and, some would argue, higher) was coming their method. “When the quarantine occurred, we would have liked one thing to do, so we began our TikTok,” Kellz says. “We had been like, ‘Let’s take this significantly and see what we may do with it. And now, we’re right here.”
Making the transition from screwing round on their private pages to taking their pranks to the following stage required a complete change of mindset. Quickly the couple had been intensely targeted on posting constantly and earlier than lengthy, they had been getting up at 6 a.m. to create content material. Constructing a following was a chore for the couple on Instagram, however as soon as they began cranking out movies it didn’t take lengthy for his or her TikTok web page to begin attracting hundreds of thousands of eyes. “Our first viral video was really the primary one we ever posted on TikTok,” Kellz says. “It was a video of me and Alex inside Walmart, however we weren’t even attempting to make a TikTok and this was simply me being humorous. I’m recording her and there was this aged couple in entrance of us in line. Immediately I made this big fart sound and the cashier and the couple circled to provide Alex essentially the most disgusted look. Then the man turned again round to test Alex out.”
For the previous two years, they’ve taken on the world collectively, one viral problem at a time. They’ve acquired over 6 million devoted followers on TikTok, racked up practically 100 million likes and introduced in sufficient money from content material creation to make it their full-time jobs. Now, they’re gearing up for his or her greatest problem but—parenthood. “So I had a nostril job surgical procedure booked and my physician was like ‘Hey, I need you to get bloodwork accomplished to be sure you’re good to go,’” Alex says. “I obtained my bloodwork accomplished and the following day I’m having breakfast with Kellz and my physician calls me. He tells me, ‘I can’t carry out surgical procedure on you as a result of your bloodwork got here again and also you’re pregnant.’”
“She began yelling in the course of the restaurant and I believed somebody was dying as a result of she began crying instantly after,” Kellz continues. “Each of our minds had been blown. We created the child on Christmas and it was fairly the shock.”
Whereas the child might have been a shock, Alex and Kellz couldn’t be extra able to deliver a baby into the world. They’re an unstoppable drive and have checked off many milestone packing containers as a pair. Begin a enterprise collectively? Examine! Make a child? Examine! Get tattoos for one another? Examine!
“I lately obtained her identify tattooed on me after I obtained my neck accomplished,” Kellz says. “I needed to shock her so I additionally obtained our anniversary, 12/12, on my fingers. Now, every time I maintain her hand she will be able to see our anniversary and her identify.”
Alex and Kellz might put all of it on the market on-line, however on the finish of the day, they’re nonetheless an actual couple that attempt to steadiness their private {and professional} lives. Social media places a literal filter on relationships and even this pair must put within the work. “I believe doing this has introduced adversity into our relationship, however in a great way,” Kellz explains. “We’re enterprise companions, so we have to discover a wholesome steadiness with our work, actually get pleasure from being with one another and keep current.”
If anybody could make it work, it’s Alex and Kellz. Their relationship has been on the quick monitor since their second date and now, solely two years in, they’ve completed greater than most {couples} do in a decade. On the finish of the day, it’s not the years themselves that rely however what you accomplish in these years that makes all of the distinction.
