It is Cartman-esque, nearly childish, as if he's somehow found the decibel at which to be equally whiny and annoying. How Georgeson credits his success, without directly crediting his success, is a simple thing: It's Webber's voice. "And more than anything else, it's popped off." "I saw this Cardi B video where she was talking about how you shouldn't be a hater and be a good person-and I thought it'd be hilarious to do that video, but with Blake's voice underneath it," Georgeson told me, when I asked how he conceived this idea for Webber. His voice-over vids get hundreds of thousands, and sometimes millions, of views on his Instagram page, and are frequently reposted by WorldStarHipHop.
I wanted to look at these influencers and show what they've become, and who they're becoming." (And, he continued, "The people who are potentially going to buy these projects, or use them, they're afraid of the word 'vape.'" By "people," naturally, he means brands and advertisers.)īut what Georgeson is best known for is adding his own voice-overs to the Instagram videos of celebrities with massive internet followings- Tekashi69, Cardi B, Plies, and Lil Tay are some of his favorite targets. Blake Vapes, his name was always Blake Webber, so that's what I switched it to. "Really, I wanted to tell the story of Blake on bigger platforms. "I had to sort of pivot away from Blake Vapes," Georgeson said. In 2017, he rebranded himself-abandoned the electronic cigarettes, replaced (most of) his handles with "Blake Webber," and seemingly focused all his attention on engaging with internet culture. Matty Ghost in Blake's universe and his DP, Adran Alvarez-since he started posting content as Blake Vapes in early 2015.īut, long-term buddies and girlfriends aside, things have changed: Primarily, as of last year, Blake Vapes has almost entirely ceased vaping. And he's been with the same group of guys-his writing partner, Nick West his frequent collaborator Matty O'Connor, a.k.a. Georgeson is originally from "all over the place." (He grew up in Colorado, moved to British Columbia to play competitive hockey, and went to high school and college in Florida.) He struggled doing stand-up comedy, quite depressingly, in Boca Raton-"every person in the crowd was over the age of 60"-before heading to Los Angeles with his girlfriend (now his wife) five years ago. "I do smoke weed, though" he said, laughing. Rather, he is the creation of Aristotle Georgeson, a 29-year-old LA-based comedian who, he told me over the phone, has "never even vaped." (All here in this single compilation.) In a short 2015 documentary, in which his cousins attempt to stage an intervention for his vaping but which he mistakes as a film about his vaping life, he walks around in a sideways hat that reads, "DAB THIS," saying stuff like, "#CloudPorn, you see that shit, dude. He vapes as he whips hatchets into trees. For those of you who haven't caught on yet, let me explain more clearly: Blake vapes. He vapes while eating something "high in protein, obviously." He vapes while doing sit-ups. In the three-minute long segment from 2015, which is randomly interrupted by occasional bursts of dubstep, the self-proclaimed "Vape God of Instagram" wears his signature "hi haters" hat as he tells viewers how, for the past three years, his life has revolved around blowing "dope-ass clouds." He vapes while talking.
To this day, Blake Vapes has one of the most disliked videos on BuzzFeed.
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