Who is Danielle Cohn? Inside the social media star’s controversial rise to fame

there are few influencers and social media celebrities nowadays more controversial and troublesome than Danielle Cohn. she’s been the subject of much speculation — particularly when it comes to her age, her relationship status and her mom’s parenting decisions. Danielle Cohn rose to fame in 2016 thanks to her lip-syncing videos on Musical.ly (TikTok’s predecessor). Cohn quickly became one of the most popular users on the app. Since 2017, Cohn has become a full-blown influencer: As of Oct. 8, 2020, she has 4.7 million Instagram followers, 1.82 million YouTube subscribers and 150,000 Twitter followers. nobody really knows for sure how old Danielle Cohn is, and the topic of her true age is the cause of much speculation. In 2017 and 2018, Cohn — who was, according to her dad, only 11 at the time — dated 17-year-old influencer Sebastian Topete. Eventually Cohn and Topete broke up, and the Musical.ly star started dating another influencer quite a few years her senior: Mikey Tua. in May 2020, she admitted that she and Tua had actually been on-and-off since 2018, though they tried to be more covert after all the family drama