Before Rickey Thompson was an outspoken, beloved social media star, he was a shy kid navigating high school in Raleigh, North Carolina.But, as he became more comfortable in his own skin and started to spotlight his true self to growing acclaim online, Thompson found that more and more of his peers embraced him for who he was.“In high school, I was the underdog,” he told In The Know’s Gibson Johns during a recent interview. “And then senior year, I became the most popular guy in school, because I had taken over social media, and I loved it.”That being said, there were still people who tried to tear him down for being different.“I was bullied for being gay and being an extra-loud person,” he told the New York Times earlier this year. “People would say, ‘You’re so annoying,’ and pick on me for how I looked.”
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