| Intro | American YouTuber and Internet celebrity |
| Known for | Overly Attached Girlfriend |
| Is |
Video blogger Internet personality YouTuber |
| From | United States of America |
| Type | Internet |
| Gender | female |
| Birth | 22 June 1991, Denton, Texas, United States of America |
| Age: | 29 years |
| Star sign | Cancer |
| Residence | Arizona |
Laina Morris (born 1991) is an American YouTuber and internet celebrity.
Early life and education
Morris was born on 22 June 1991, in Denton, Texas. She grew up in Keller and attended Northwest High School, Justin, Texas.
Later, she studied journalism at the University of North Texas, Denton.
Rise to fame
In 2012 summer, Justin Bieber, while promoting his new fragrance “Girlfriend,” asked his lady fans to submit a “Girlfriend” version of his latest single, “Boyfriend.” The prize: Bieber’s favorite submissions would be included in the commercial for the new fragrance. The commercial was set to make its debut on June 21, 2012, during a Bieber-special on NBC.
In response to the contest, Morris posted a video titled “JB Fanvideo” to YouTube on June 6, 2012. In the video, she performs a parody rendition of Bieber’s “Boyfriend” with personalized lyrics. The video was an instant viral hit, collecting over a million views within the next two days.
In the video, she sings the song with deliberate cringy lyrics:
If I was your girlfriend / I’d never let you leave / without a small recording device / taped under your sleeve
I’ll always be checking up on you / Hey, boy, who you talking to? / Spend a day with your girl, I’ll be calling you my husband.”
Morris posted the video anonymously and her identity was not known to public, however, she confirmed the report in a tweet on 16 June 2012:
I’m always amused by the @OvrlyAttachdGF tweets. Then I realize my face is associated with it and I’m slightly disturbed. Still awesome.
— Laina (@laina622) June 16, 2012
A week later, on 18 June 2012, Morris uploaded on YouTube a new video titled “CRJ Fanvideo,” this time spoofing Carly Rae Jepsen’s song, “Call Me Maybe.” The video also went viral on Reddit and YouTube, amassing over 1.8 million views within 24 hours.
As for the Bieber contest, Morris was one of the runners up, but surely a winner in many ways. She was featured in the list of 15 people made famous by the internet in 2012.
YouTube channel
After the viral success, Morris started posting regularly on YouTube. Her YouTube channel has over 1.27 million subscribers and her videos have collected over 164 million views.
On Twitter, she has over 200k followers, and on instagram, 174k followers.
She was active on YouTube for the first few years, but took a hiatus in 2017, leaving her fans curious and wondering. In August 2017, she announced in a video titled “Goodbye Denton” that she was leaving Denton, Texas and moving to Arizona. After that point, she posted only a couple of videos, until July 24 2019, when she posted her last video, saying goodbye to her fans.
In the video titled, “Breaking Up with You…Tube,” Morris explains that her decision to stop posting videos is primarily to preserve her mental health, and to focus on things that are important to her at this point.