Last spring, as most of the country was shutting down, Tabitha Brown's life was speeding up. At the urging of her teenage daughter, the aspiring actor had posted her first TikTok video mere days before COVID-19 would materialize as a real and powerful threat to normal life.
Less than two months later, as others continued to navigate their new work-from-home realities, Brown found herself with more than 2 million followers on the social entertainment app, the attention of CAA, and no free time to speak of. "At the beginning, when the shutdown first happened, I was like, 'Oh, this is going to be nice.' My son was home, we were cooking together.