Internet career Ĭunningham is best known for her Britney Spears video, uploaded to YouTube on September 10, 2007. While her grandfather reportedly knows little about her Internet fame, her grandmother has reluctantly appeared in some of her videos.
Cunningham lived with her fundamentalist Pentecostal grandparents who continued raising her when her teenage parents were not able. Cunningham continued to live in Tennessee throughout her youth, and was homeschooled in response to constant "death threats, bullying and glares at her clothes and makeup" specifically after reportedly being "harassed by a homophobic high school gym coach". Cunningham said she "raised eyebrows" by bringing Barbie dolls to kindergarten for show and tell rather than the toys or action figures more conventionally associated with boys.