Britt Holley

Age: 27

Years before the words Honey Boo Boo could be considered sane when put together in a sentence, there was Britt Holley. And for the last twenty years her name has rarely left our minds.

It all started back in 2006 when she was the breakout star of Drama Mamas. The show was about a group of talented kids trying to break into showbiz, while focusing primarily on the immature antics of the kids' helicopter moms. Even though most of the screen time was dedicated to the constant bickering and backstabbing between fame-starved mothers, audiences couldn't deny the magnetic and charming personality of 10 year old Britt. Although featured cast members came and went with each season, Britt was the only child to be a permanent cast member for all five seasons.

In 2013 she reappeared on our screens, now as an 18 year old starring in her own series Welcome to Holleywood. This time the attention was solely focused on her as audiences eagerly awaited to see if her over-the-top personality could sustain an entire series. Britt didn't just eat up the spotlight, she devoured it as she and her wannabe actor friends redefined what it meant to be a reality star.

From this point on the names of her shows changed based on whatever her current endeavor was, but she remained at the center of the reality-verse. From 2016-2019 Britt starred in Holleywooed. During that time she got engaged, married, then divorced to Gage Preston, the only other castmate from her previous series that found any sort of fame on their own.

In 2020 she restarted her career with a new show, new network, and new cast. Britt traded her bourgeois friends and ex-husband for her family, moving them all over from Texas to LA in her most recent series, The Beverly Holley's. Also, for the first time, Britt signed a contract for her new series to air on the Krentler Media Channel, instead of TLC. The show had just finished airing its second season when Britt announced she would be taking part in Slashtag.

D-Wreck

Age: 30

D-wreck is an online personality, known for making viral prank videos, and streaming video gaming content on Twitch. While his real name is Derek Sarecki, he's been almost universally known as D-wreck since he rose to popularity in the early 2000's.

He attributes his fame largely to an incident he shared on the late night talk show Jimmy. He referred to himself as “the ultimate latch-key kid” with a lot of free time after school and a whole house to himself.

“I had a roll of quarters, a stick, and a bag full of dog poop I'd found on the sidewalk. I don't remember what the original plan was, I stole my parents video camera from their bedroom. When I went to check the tape on the camera-- to make sure I wasn't recording over something important like me opening an Xbox at christmas-- I found what turned out to be my parents homemade sex tape. I think most kids would see something like that and be scarred for life, and don't get me wrong, I think it's definitely a contributing factor to creating the monster I am today. What I ended up doing was re-cutting the tape so that my dads grunts sounded exactly like the beat to We Will Rock You and played it at school while I sang along.”

D-wreck joked that it was a while before he got access to a video camera again, but by that point there was no going back. He had already had a taste of the attention gained from sharing content that is equal parts distasteful and humorous, and by the time he was sixteen he was one of the biggest names on youtube.

By the age of 20, he started streaming himself playing games online, which would frequently turn into pranks or skits that often left audiences wondering if what they had just seen was real or fake.

His unique brand of performance art has also landed him in trouble a handful of times. The first of which was during the height of the “Swatting” craze, when video gamers would call in fake threats to the police against their online competitors. D-wreck faked a swatting prank in which he faked his own death on camera, which caused fierce backlash by both the public and Law Enforcement. As penance, D-wreck submitted himself to undergo 30 days of prison time. The video blogs that followed only served to increase his popularity in the long run, which only led to him staging increasingly outlandish (and illegal) stunts.

The culmination of these stunts has primed D-wreck to be the ultimate wildcard for Slashtag!

Kawaii Kiki

Age: 24

Though her given name is Koyuki Suura, to the world she's known as Kawaii Kiki. Born to Japanese immigrant parents In Sydney Australia, Kiki grew up in a household that was very different from the lifestyle she leads today. Little is known of her childhood, aside from that she briefly had a sister, who passed just before her first birthday, and that her parents worked in the field of medical technology, and pushed her hard to go into medicine.

According to the biography page on her website, she was planning to go to the University of Sydney until one fateful trip to the US the summer after her senior year of high school. She hadn't seriously considered following her passion until her cosplay of Kerrigan from Starcraft II(with real functioning wings) won the grand prize at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con Masquerade. She was offered a spot as a contestant on the brand new Syfy reality competition series America's Next Top Cosplayer, which would film during her first semester of college.

With a difficult decision to make, Kiki put college indefinitely on hold to compete, and ultimately win the show. From there her life became a whirlwind of paid appearances at conventions, which led to sponsored cosplays from video game and film producers from around the world.

Today, Kawaii Kiki makes as much money with her cosplays as a top-tier fashion designer, and is known around the world for her amazing artistry. She's participated and won Cosplay contests at conventions around the world except for Australia. According to her, she's already spent more than enough time there and has no intentions of returning any time soon.

Landon Keating

Age: 42

Landon Keating is a TV, film, and rock star, and son of Hollywood legend Great Scott Keating. Aside from a few cereal commercials as a kid, Landon didn’t begin acting until he starred as the voice of Gary Reptillicus III in the 1988 saturday morning cartoon, King of the Creepies. The show ran 8 seasons, during which time Landon began making live-action appearances on popular family sitcoms like Packed House, Piece by Piece, Family Affairs, and Kid Meets Planet.

By the time Creepies wrapped, he was starring in high school comedies and testing the waters of drama. In 1997 he played a small role in the Oscar nominated film North Dakota, which gave him his first taste of serious drama.

In the late 90’s Keating was a known presence around Los Angeles’ notorious Viper Room, where he met the other members of what would become his band Copycat. Most of the 2000’s were spent with his band, though the majority of his publicity came from his frequent appearances on TMZ for his very public drug-fuelled freak outs. Though his band did have some success, making their way onto the billboard top 10 multiple times over their three album run, they never quite hit the level of stardom that Landon had experienced in acting.

In 2011, Keating reappeared after vanishing from the public eye for several years, sober and hungry for a comeback. He landed the lead role of Martin Shkreli in the biopic Wu Tang For One, in which he received an Oscar nomination for best actor. Even though he lost the award, his career seemed to be on track for a huge comeback. His return to the King of the Creepies franchise only gained him more attention as he returned for the live action film in 2013.

Then in 2014 Murder Manion happened. Not only was the film a critical and commercial flop, his bizarre over-the-top performance as serial killer Arthur Wilson was heavily lambasted over the internet. It seemed overnight that Landon had turned from one of Hollywood's most promising comeback stories to its biggest joke.

Yet somehow, despite having seemingly lost the respect of the majority of his fans, he only continued to land bigger roles in even larger box-office disasters. His followup feature, a superhero movie called The Manimal, successfully killed the budding Deadbolt Comics superhero franchise before it ever got off the ground. Most recently, he was almost comically miscast as Woody in the recent live-action adaptation of Toy Story.

Chef Costanza

Age: Unknown

Chef Costanza is an online cooking personality and professional chef. Reporting on his biography is a challenge, due to his extremely mysterious nature. Despite being one of the most popular celebrity chefs out there, no one knows who Chef Costanza actually is. Years before The Masked Cheerleader made its way onto our screens, Costanza was wearing his signature rubber mask in all of his cooking tutorials on Youtube.

His channel quickly rose to fame, not just because of the gimmick, but because his dishes were inventive, elevated, and simple enough for a home cook to follow.

Costanza's rise to fame was not overnight, though he did seem to make the jump from Youtube talent to guest judge on Top Chef fairly quickly. Costanza has remained tight-lipped on how he rose to stardom so quickly, though the internet seems to be divided by two theories.

One group firmly believes Costanza to already be a notably famous TV chef who wanted to experiment with anonymity and gimmicks. If true, he's been wildly successful at it, since every name has been thrown out from Guy Fieri to Paula Deen with a voice modulator. Even seeing Costanza on the same screen as other chefs hasn't been able to dissuade some fans, insisting that editing techniques have been used to throw fans off his scent.

The other operating theory (and the one that personally seems more likely), is that Costanza is just a well-connected chef who has earned a lot of respect in the cooking industry and decided to wear the mask in order to avoid too much attention in his personal life. Many people believe this is the case especially after he explained on Graham Norton why he chose to don the mask. “At first the entire goal was just to focus on the food. I didn't want the audience to get distracted by who was cooking it, his pedigree or background or whatever. It was about the food. Of course that plan backfired massively, and now I'm sitting here instead of making duck confit recipes in my New York apartment.”

Shawn Eamon

Age: 24

Shawn Eamon is a former professional athlete. He played on the New Orleans Saints from 2019-2021.

Originally from a small town near Guntersville Alabama, Shawn's had football in his blood from an early age. He was the only freshman in his class to play for the varsity team. According to Eamon, he attributes most of his early success with a natural growth spurt he had during adolescence. During his senior year, his team went nearly undefeated, earning him a football scholarship to the University of Alabama.

While moving up to the college level definitely put him in a bigger pond, he still remained a relatively big fish. He was a middle linebacker, using his size and speed to make for an almost impossible defense to break through. While his team did not make the playoffs, he was recruited personally from the team to join the NFL on the New Orleans Saints. His position was demoted to outside linebacker, but he was finally in the big leagues.

Unfortunately, his career was rather short lived. After the Saints won the superbowl in 2021 for the second time in history, the teams quarterback and MVP Danny Roth outed himself and Shawn as gay partners during the postgame interviews.

The revelation was shocking to many fans, and caused an uproar in the NFL community. While there have been several gay players in the league, this was the first time two players on the same team were actively in a relationship. During the draft for the next season, Danny Roth was recruited as a first pick for the San Francisco 49er's, while Shawn was overlooked entirely.

In the time since, Shawn's more or less dropped off the map. He appeared on several news segments on CNN and KMC, and did a couple commercial spots, but aside from that he seems to be living the quiet life back in his hometown in Alabama.

Tawny Howlett

Age: 31

Tawny Howlett is an online personality, makeup entrepreneur, and lifestyle guru. She is best known for her makeup tutorial videos, which she started producing in 2007 when she was only 17 years old.

She quickly became one of the most followed makeup personalities on Youtube, and in 2011 she launched her first signature makeup line through Maybe-Line. It was a huge success, spawning several more lines for Maybe-Line until her products grew into athletic accessories, healing crystals, healthy-eating guides and more.

In 2015, she broke off from Maybe-Line when it was exposed that they tested many of their cosmetics on animals. Tany instead formed her own company, and manufactured all of her products ethically. This gained the attention of multiple wildlife protection associations like Peta, The Humane Society, and Save the Giraffes. Since then Tawny has become a champion for the protection of animals.

In late 2022 Tawny announced that she and D-wreck were in a relationship in an announcement that shocked just about everyone. At first people thought it was one of D-wrecks signature pranks, however the couple have been spotted canoodling around LA for nearly six months now, so it would seem their relationship is legit.

Even more shocking, in the week leading up to the premiere of Slashtag, Tawny has come under fire for producing a fitness drink that has left dozens of consumers with horrific food poisoning. It seems the mask is slipping from the internets golden girl, and I for one can't wait to see how she fares inside of Slashtag.