Maine
These Maine dogs and their owners have millions of followers on TikTok
Lobsters, lighthouses and Stephen King are the issues most individuals take into consideration once they consider Maine. However if you happen to’re an everyday person of TikTok, three of the preferred accounts on the platform that hail from Maine aren’t about any of these issues in any respect.
As an alternative, they’re targeted on three good, cute canine and their homeowners, who’ve made their canine companions into TikTok stars via a mixture of foolish voices and their real-life relationships with one another.
The preferred TikTok account in Maine is MisterMainer, that includes a bull terrier combine named Biscuit and her doting proprietor, Dmitry Pepper, 25, a local of Whitefield. MisterMainer has practically 12 million followers and Pepper’s movies have been shared a whopping 416 million instances.
Pepper and his household adopted Biscuit from the Underhound Railroad, a midcoast-based canine rescue. Pepper began MisterMainer throughout the pandemic, simply as a enjoyable distraction. In January 2021, nevertheless, a collection of movies of Biscuit lip syncing to music and dancing every acquired hundreds of thousands of views. Issues skyrocketed from there.
At this time, MisterMainer movies routinely get greater than 5 million views — not that Biscuit has a lot of an concept that she’s TikTok well-known. In her movies, she wears wigs, hats and costumes, “dances” together with her proprietor, and generally simply does typical canine issues, like play fetch, chase squirrels or frolic within the snow.
“It has not been straightforward changing into Maine’s hottest TikToker,” Pepper mentioned. “Whereas Biscuit leads a lifetime of a traditional canine, I work as a full-time content material creator. I joke with my followers that Biscuit is the mastermind behind all my movies. She doesn’t know she is legendary, however she enjoys being with me and dealing with me.”
Pepper has turned his viral fame right into a second profession, with partnerships with Animal Planet, PetSmart and standard singer Charlie Puth, although he nonetheless works as a manufacturing assistant with a movie manufacturing firm and as a photographer for VolunteerMaine, documenting the work of AmeriCorps members across the state.
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Biscuit’s not the one Maine canine that has discovered TikTok fame, nevertheless. In Hermon, Tatum, a blended breed rescue canine owned by Charles and Nicole Lever has discovered his personal fan base with Tatum Talks, a TikTok account run by the Levers, that includes Tatum in a wide range of situations being voiced by Charles Lever.
With 3.3 million followers, the Levers have constructed a model round Tatum, promoting a wide range of merchandise and posting new movies on TikTok a number of instances per week. Charles Lever’s distinctively goofy voice for his well-known pup has attracted promoting alternatives for pet meals manufacturers and for the latest movie “Canine,” starring Channing Tatum.
Whereas Biscuit and Tatum lead typical canine lives as family companions, Marek, one other TikTok well-known Maine canine, has a job with the Knox County Sheriff’s Workplace as a Okay-9 patrol canine. His handler, Deputy Tim Davis, created a TikTok account for his German shepherd associate that now has greater than 800,000 followers and has obtained greater than 13 million likes.
Davis and Marek have been out on patrols collectively since 2019, with Marek additionally accompanying him to his DARE lessons at native faculties. When a scholar in a Knox County faculty challenged him to get “TikTok well-known,” Davis took her up on the problem.
Marek and Davis’ TikTok account not solely has foolish TikTok dances and different typical viral content material, it additionally solutions questions from viewers about police canine and policing basically, and reveals off Marek’s abilities within the area. And for Davis, it’s a approach for him to attach with folks and humanize law enforcement officials.
“My motivation behind it’s actually to let folks know they’re liked, they usually’re cared for,” Davis informed NewsCenter Maine final fall. “Even when it’s a 30-second interplay with me, hey, if that’s what I can provide them, that’s what I can provide them.”