Tinx Is Ready for Her Next Chapter
23.05.2023 - 17:59
/ glamour.com
By One day in 2020, a 29-year-old woman named Christina Najjar stepped onto what felt like a conveyor belt. It was a fairly short ride to the other side and when she stepped off, her hair was better, her skin was shinier. She wasn’t Christina anymore.
She was Tinx, a bonafide social media star on , TikTok, with more than 1 million followers hanging onto her every word. Everyone wanted her at their party, to sample their new product, to hold up her iPhone and say their name. She used to fangirl over Tom Ford on , now she was getting to his runway show during New York Fashion Week.
Within six months, The New York Times her appeal for “all generations,” called her “the influencer to end them all.” She had more brand deals than she knew what to do with and more money than she had ever dreamed of. She had transformed, she thought. But when you reach a certain level of notoriety online, nothing is a given. In , old—and she openly admits—abhorrent tweets on her personal Twitter account were uncovered and splashed across the tabloids, endlessly dissected on Reddit and , and drove thousands of ill wishers into her DMs.
The same places where she was once lauded as the girl everyone wanted to be were now minefields. She apologized, but it was too late to stop the and thousands of hate messages and comments. Tinx was, to use internet parlance, swiftly canceled. This could have been the point where she called it, or at least, took her foot off the gas so as not to rile up the people who, she says, threatened to come to her home and kill her, among other things.