View rank on IMDbPro ». Steven Fernandez aka "Lil Cloud" from Compton, California, is a youthful social media persona, skateboarder, folk musician, "challenge" vlogger and an actor who played in Quest: The Truth Always Rises as one among a teen ensemble, played in Search Party as a kid selling fake IDs, starred in short movie Los , and earlier was See full bio ».
Filmography by Job Trailers and Videos. Share this page:. Around The Web Provided by Taboola. Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDb page. Showing all 7 items. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro. Getting Started Contributor Zone ». Edit page. Fernandez grew up alongside three brothers—Jamie, Jose, and Alex—and a younger sister, Jackie, but first moved in with his great-aunt Marisela, his grandmother, and his cousin, Luis Barajas, at the age of nine.
That's also when he was gifted his first skateboard by his grandmother. He preferred the two-story home with a pool to his parent's two-room apartment behind a restaurant storefront, but ping-ponged between the two places throughout his childhood. That grandmother would be the first of many adults—whether they be extended family members, skaters, managers, or fellow entertainers—to step into his life and provide the support he apparently lacked in Compton.
He grabs the breasts of a mannequin and stumbles upon a mysterious woman twerking upside down, a preview of the conduct that eventually made him a bonafide YouTube star capable of garnering millions of views per video.
The video was a crucial breakthrough in Fernandez's career, even if he still wasn't making any real money. While he showed promise, his aunt and others say he lacked the talent to immediately go pro, and much of his family viewed his love of the sport as less of a career than a hobby that might keep him out of trouble in a gang-infested neighborhood.
Fernandez says his career took a turn after he posted a photo of himself in front of a local and noticed comments coming in from girls who said he was cute.
His aunt says that the switch came after an in-store event he did with DGK that brought in hoards of young women, at which point the company handlers started seeing dollar signs.
What's certain is that with the release of "How to Get Girls"—an eight-minute video of Fernandez harassing women on the street, making rape jokes, and then posing with sexy adults—things changed for him and his family.
Her teenage daughter, who is filming, turns the camera on herself and sticks her tongue out. When he gets into the bathroom, where the elder Giavasis is putting on makeup, Steven pulls at her leggings to reveal a thong.
The model bounces her ass in the air before her Instagram handle flashes on screen. In the segments, an year-old from Orange County named Aaron Hamill approached unsuspecting women on the street with one-liners and demeaning comments. Hamill's act almost certainly wouldn't get green-lit for a mainstream cable show in Still, cultural mores haven't changed so much that public record of these kinds of behaviors could preclude someone from reaching the highest office in the country, as our president has shown, and they're considered even more excusable when performed by children.
Take for instance this Fusion profile that called the Baby Scumbag persona an extension of his "loudmouth or carefree personality," or this LA Weekly write-up that fawned over the 37 million YouTube views Fernandez accumulated while dismissing his stunts as "just about as misogynistic and girl-crazed as a contemporary rap god.
I was also guilty of describing Steven's behavior as that of a typical year-old when I first interviewed him about his hopes and dreams for VICE in His answer: "to have a inch cock and to be a porn star. When it's used against adult women, we think it's normal, and because he's trying to be grown up, we think it's cute, but obviously it's not cute at all.
The joke lands because of an age-old double-standard: society often simply doesn't conceive of men as vulnerable. When we chatted, Wade brought up the fact that some are repulsed by children's pageants because they require little girls to dress up like adults, while infant boys can be found sporting onesies printed with phrases like "Boobs Man.
And the fact that [Fernandez] is getting in trouble for it is really interesting because it goes to show that the behaviors that we teach young boys—and later men—to engage in is actually bad behavior.
Potentially criminal behavior. After "How to Get Girls" blew up, Fernandez moved permanently to the Valley and started focusing on his career.
Crucially, he also transitioned from a school in Compton, where many students didn't yet have smartphones, to a school in the much wealthier area , where peers quickly picked up on Steven's burgeoning stardom and spread his content to friends outside of California.
While enrolled at that school, he created more videos with instructions on how to get phone numbers, but also started spinning a tale about a poor kid just trying to make it. Filmmaker and rapper Kreayshawn, born Natassia Gail Zolot, recognized the undeniable charisma in the kid and was touched by his rags-to-riches schtick. After the two met on Twitter in ,she stepped in to fill the role of a wise older sister and, she says, tried to steer him away from some of the more unsavory things he was exposed to as a pre-teen.
Over lunch at a Hawaiian cafe in Culver City, I ask Zolot about some of the things she felt she needed to be protective about. You're like bragging about it like it's tight, [but] this breaks my heart.
Zolot referred Fernandez to her manager, Chioke "Stretch" McCoy, but eventually it became clear that the arrangement wouldn't fly. As McCoy describes it, the family didn't want an outsider coming in and running shit. By the time he was a teenager, Fernandez was supporting an unemployed mother, fronting medical expenses for a dad with eye cancer who passed away in June , employing siblings at a Huntington Park clothing store called Chapter Three, and propelling extended family into a sort-of pseudo-celebrity status.
In March, thousands of fans chased him outside of a Downey mall , causing a premature shutdown of a celebrity event inside a clothing store. Fernandez's manager, year-old Jose Barajas, and fellow professional skateboarder, year-old Keelan Lamar Dadd, were also arrested.
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