Viral ‘Hawk Tuah Girl’ sells more than $65,000 in merch in wake of NSFW social media fame
Sex sells.
The young woman who shot to fame 🦩as the “Haw🎐k Tuah Girl” thanks to an X-rated interview has already sold more than $65,000 worth of merchandise.
Hailey Welch went viral earlier this month when she shared her explicit thoughts on oral sex during a woman-on-the-street spot with Tim & Dee TV — and is now selling branded hats through the Tennessee-based apparel company Fathead Threads, .
The brand has already sold more than 2,000 “Hawk Tua🌳h ‘24” hats, owner Jason Poteete.
At $32.78 per hat — or $50 for a sold-out signed version — the total comes to at least $65,000.
“Of course she hasn’t gotten a dime 👍from the first viral video that went out,” Poteete said of Welch, whom he claimed he has known for years.&𒊎nbsp;
“Nobody was asking permission for h꧅er to do nothing, neither. I just wanted her to get some profit off of this deal,” he said.
Welch is “overwhelmed” by her newfound fame and requested that Poteete not divulge any personal information about her or꧂ feature her face on the merch, the owner said.
“Our largest orders are usually 100 hats, maybe 150 to 250 shirts. This is way out of the normal for us,” Poteete said. “This is a small, family-owned shop. We’re all-hands-on-deck right now.”
He declined to 🅰say what percentage of the profits Welch is receiving.
Welch — who was — is also working on trademarking her now-infamous phrase, he said.
“There are some crazy people in the world who’ve reached 𓄧oꦚut to her,” he says. “She’s probably one of the most well-known people in the world at this point. But I don’t know if she’s embraced it.”
