Where Are They Now? Here's What 'Woah Vicky' Has Been Up To Since She Stopped Claiming To Be Black And Embraced God Instead

Woah Vicky is an internet personality that rose to fame along a cohort of equally controversial internet-born social media stars, exploding onto everyone's Instagram and YouTube feeds in the late 2010s alongside the likes of Lil Tay, Bhad Bhabie and Rice Gum.

Vicky saw a meteoric rise to fame after 2016, putting out new music every few months, publicly feuding with Danielle Bregoli and, of course, insisting that she is Black despite having two white parents.

Vicky's insatiable need to be a culture vulture was the one trait that brought her the most notoriety toward the start of her career, from dropping N-bombs on IG live to faking a Zone 6 Atlanta accent despite having grown up in the affluent Cobb County.

Still, Woah Vicky seems to have the most staying power of her cohort, still appearing in headlines for her newfound turn to Jesus, her maniacal and grammatically incoherent tweets, and for her rumored relationship with Former NFL star wide receiver Antonio Brown.

Here's a look back at Victoria Rose Waldrip, better known online as Woah Vicky, from her rise to fame and what she's been up to ever since.

Who Is Woah Vicky and How Did She First Go Viral Online?

Jumping back to 2016, it was a year when just about any attention-starved teen could take to their social media and say some truly out-of-pocket things in their quest for fame — and actually manage to achieve their goal.

But if Bhad Bhabie had the help of Dr. Phil's show to catapult her to stardom, all Woah Vicky had was her Instagram and her wacky accent.

Woah Vicky was born Victoria Rose Waldrip in the Atlanta suburb of Cobb County, where she attended high school in Marietta before dropping out to focus on her internet career. She gathered a significant following on Instagram in 2016 when she often posted about her lifestyle in Georgia's largest city.

She put out a music video for her self-titled track "Woah Vicky" in 2018, a song so badly received that the top comments are just jokes about people waiting for the "English version" to drop.

But Woah Vicky didn't get a taste for real fame until a video of her claiming to be 25 percent Black blew up online and even got reposted by the likes of Snoop Dogg and Charlamagne.

It's hard to deny that Woah Vicky's initial rise to fame was in large part due to her controversial use of racial slurs and her insistence on claiming Black heritage for herself.

In interviews given later in her career, Vicky talks about how her Black friends and social collaborators encouraged her to use racial slurs and ham up her "Blaccent" as a means to gain viral traction, a plan that she eagerly followed as a 17-year-old desperate for fame.

It's clear that Woah Vicky had built a career off "rage bait" before the term was even a thing. She knew that what she was doing was controversial, but she did it for the attention (and money) she received regardless.

How Did Woah Vicky Stay In The Limelight After Her Initial Rise To Fame?

Woah Vicky grew and sustained her audience through a series of forced feuds and controversial posts in the years following 2017, beginning with her drawn-out beef with YouTuber Ricegum.

The duo's back-and-forth was a memorable internet moment in time, with Vicky clapping back with a video that seemed less directed at Ricegum than a means to deliver as many Asian slurs as she could muster.

The feud helped Vicky hit her first 100,000 followers on Instagram and solidified her go-to strategy for internet fame: feuding with her peers and drawing on a kind of race-science that could make Yakub blush.

Victoria kept up the reuse through her next public feud, this time with "Cash Me Ousside" star Danielle Bregoli, also known best as Bhad Bhabie. In a series of online and IRL interactions in 2017 and 2018, Vicky and Bhad Bhabie exchanged insults and slurs that sometimes escalated to blows.

Both creators have since admitted that the feud was a mutually beneficial ruse meant to boost their fame, a strategy that definitely worked in Vicky's favor.

Vicky hit rinse and repeat on her strategy when she posted a video cussing out Snoop Dogg and then immediately backtracking when he posted his own clip shutting down the squabble immediately, calling her a "funky, dog-haired, white [B-word]" and threatening her and her friends with real damage.

Vicky also made a brief appearance on the reality TV series Baddies East, on which she reportedly got into a fight with fellow internet provocateur Chrisean Rock and her posse, eventually getting booted off the show entirely.

What Has Woah Vicky Been Up To In Recent Years, And What's Up With Her Christian Awakening?

It does seem as though Woah Vicky may be regretful and even embarrassed about her controversial posts and actions in her desperate drive for fame. After Vicky attempted to sidestep and avoid questions about her use of racial slurs as a teenager in more recent interviews, Vicky dropped the pièce de résistance that finally rounded out her insane social media tragectory — a Christian fundamentalist arc.

In November 2022, Vicky posted a video titled, "Woah Vicky's Testimony," in which she appears in a much more toned-down persona and talks about how her parent's struggles with alcoholism have made her turn to religion. She also talks about how she wants to be married, settle down and have kids, a wild shift from her infamously aggressive persona.

She posted a similar video on her TikTok, going into more detail about her traumatic childhood, which began with her mother's failed attempt to abort her and spiraled into an unstable upbringing in a chaotic house. With his background in mind, Woah Vicky's rabid obsession with fame and eventual turn to religion starts to make more sense.

Vicky's audience also saw a sharp shift with her new Christian outlook on life, with people sharing positive and loving comments on her newer videos, despite the fact that she somehow supplanted her previous opinions on race with some controversial opinions about gay people.

She has numerous TikTok videos in which she talks about how she doesn't "agree" with being gay, and thinks such impulses come from "the devil."

Vicky also posts similarly unhinged content on her Twitter, at one point gathering over 100,000 likes on a tweet that reads, "Why does democract have the word demon in it," an opinion swiftly corrected by Community Notes.

Despite Woah Vicky's sad stories about her troubled upbringing and newfound faith, her new videos make it hard for many to believe that she truly seeks redemption and isn't just looking for the next grift that can sustain her lifestyle.

A bizarre but ultimately hilarious video featuring Vicky greeting a gaggle of Muslim girls with an incorrect Arabic greeting before her companion drops a piggy bank full of cash made the rounds in October 2024, a gimmick that isn't too far off from her OG content.

Where Can You Find Woah Vicky Today?

Woah Vicky is still active on most social media under several different handles. She goes by @woahhvickyyy on X (formerly Twitter), where she routinely posts cryptic tweets like "I'm battling with my flesh." She's also active on TikTok under @woahvickyy, on Instagram as @woahvicky and on YouTube as @WoahVickychannel.

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For the full history of Woah Vicky, be sure to check out Know Your Meme's encyclopedia entry for more information. To see the rest of our "Where Are They Now" series, you can find them all here. Stay tuned for next week's editorial!