Brittany Broski

Brittany Tomlinson was born on May 10, 1997, and raised in Dallas, Texas.[3] She participated in theater growing up, acting in local productions of The Addams Family, Bus Stop, and Spamalot. During both high school and college, she was a part of her schools' improv troupes.[4]

She graduated from Texas A&M University magna cum laude in 2018 with a degree in communications.[5] She subsequently worked at a call center but left after it made her depressed.[6] She then worked in trust and investment services at a bank, where she was fired after her boss discovered the kombucha video and determined that Tomlinson's viral fame would put the company in jeopardy.[7][8] She is also a licensed insurance agent.[9]

Tomlinson created her TikTok account in June 2019 at the request of her friends, originally using the handle @brittanyt445.[10] She posted her first video, a Snapchat video about her "depression meal", which went viral a month later.[11][9]

She subsequently posted her most viral video, wherein she tastes cream soda-flavored kombucha for the first time with rapidly changing facial expressions, in August 2019.[12] The video first gained notoriety on "gay Twitter" after being reposted with sexually-charged captions, eventually gaining traction on Reddit and Twitter, earning over 40 million views on the latter platform.[9][11] The video also became a popular reaction image on social media and was ranked by TikTok as one of the top ten most viral videos of 2019 posted to the platform.[13][12] Its popularity earned her the nickname "Kombucha Girl".[14][10] In the Huffington Post, Broski has been described as the "Patron Saint of Memes," and BuzzFeed referred to her as a "TikTok star".[15]

Following the success of the kombucha video, Tomlinson was signed to Influences Management and later to United Talent Agency.[9] In late 2019, Tomlinson moved to Los Angeles with her friend and fellow TikToker Sarah Schauer and the two have been making YouTube videos together since.[16] She appeared in an advertisement for Sabra hummus during Super Bowl LIV.[17] In early 2020 she competed on the second season of the YouTube reality show The Reality House hosted by JC Caylen and Kian Lawley; she was eliminated in the first episode.[18] In August 2020, she was featured in an episode of the Awesomeness web television series Dish This.[19] She was nominated for a Subject Award in Comedy at the 10th Streamy Awards.[20] She co-hosted the TikTok New Year's Eve Party live event with American rapper Lil Yachty in December 2020.[21] After she used the song "Remy the Ratatouille" in a video, the song went viral, inspiring the creation of Ratatouille the Musical.[22] In early 2021 Tomlinson became the host of TikTok's official podcast, For You.[23] She has since guest starred on Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova's podcast The Bald and the Beautiful,[24] made three guest appearances on Chris Klemens' podcast Unhinged,[25][26][27] and joined Trevor Evarts for the first episode of his podcast Trevor Talks Too Much.[28] In 2022, she appeared on Good Mythical Morning, hosted by Rhett and Link, as well as H3Podcast.

In 2020, Josh Kaplan of The Telegraph called Tomlinson "one of TikTok's biggest stars".[29] Writing for i-D, Tom Prior referred to her as a "TikTok superstar" and named a video of her rapping in the voice of English singer Adele as one of the 20 best TikToks of 2020.[30] L'Officiel included her on their list of "People Who Made Us Laugh in 2020".[31]