Rickey Thompson
“Oh my! I didn’t see you there. I was too busy focused on my brand new pair of boots. Yes bitch, I’ve got new boots,” Rickey Thompson says straight down the camera to his 4.5 million followers. His trademark “ha ha ha” laugh follows, along with: “These boots are from London, darling. These are international boots, baby. You work hard, you buy yourself a new pair of boots, bitch.” Next thing you know he’s doing a backroll on his bed; his nimble body frame achieving it with much more elegance and grace than we ever could achieve. “Oh shit! These boots got me all acrobatic.”
It’s this level of extraness packed with charisma, charm and plenty of star power that has given way to Rickey’s stratospheric level of internet fame. It was back in school that Rickey first got his big break, when one of his short-form videos on the now defunct platform Vine was shared by none other than Kylie Jenner. As one would expect, the exposure took his social media presence to the next level. But Rickey was never going to be just a flash in the vlogging pan. Growing up in Raleigh, North Carolina,
