"This joke don’t work cuz he’s still broke" — Internet reacts to Hawk Tuah girl's interviewer's response to her saying she will never thank him

Haliey Welch, aka the Hawk Tuah Girl, is in the headlines again after a comment she made in July has resurfaced on the internet. Welch made an appearance on the Bobby Bones Show, the episode of which was released on July 31, 2024.

In the interview, Welch was referring to the video that originally made her viral. She stated that she didn't earn anything from the video which was shared by the YouTube channel Tim & Dee TV, on June 24, 2024. The interviewer then asked the Hawk Tuah Girl if she had spoken to the creators or thanked them after going massively viral.

To this Welch replied:

"Tell him thank you for what!"

She further added:

"We reached out to him, but I asked him to stop posting those videos and he never did. He blocked us... I'm not telling thank you for anything..."

While the interview happened some time ago, the original creators had recently responded to it. They shared a tweet on X on November 19, that read:

"We changed the broke n*gga life!"

The original interviewer of the Hawk Tuah Girl shared a tweet (Photo via @tim&deetv/X)

The creators' tweet didn't go unnoticed, and netizens reacted to it. Here are some popular responses found on X. A user wrote:

"This joke don’t work cuz he’s still broke and she probably got close to a M or more."

"Y’all can’t take too much credit because it was her phrase lol," wrote another one.

"He seems bitter. She wanted it down, he didn’t want to cuz he was thinking of himself. Can’t be mad now," added a tweet.

Some even believed that it was Welch and her comments that made the original creators famous and not the other way around. A user tweeted:

"Fun Fact: the interviewer didn't make her famous, she made him famous cuz what she said went viral.."

"If he made her then he should be able to make another," commented another netizen.

"It doesn’t hit because she actually reached out & he didn’t answer." said another netizen.

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Hawk Tuah Girl aka Haliey Welch has a net worth of $200,000

The Hawk Tuah girl gained fame shortly after the video was shared on social media. She also gained new opportunities, one of the most prominent ones would be her podcast titled Talk Tuah with Haliey Welch on YouTube.

She introduced the podcast on September 3, 2024, and has interviewed 11 celebrities including big names like JoJo Siwa, Whitney Cummings, Dasha, Wiz Khalifa, and Holly Madison. She already has more than 180k subscribers on the channel.

Haliey Welch is also quite active on Instagram and has a strong social media presence with about 2.6 million followers. Shortly after becoming famous on social media, the Hawk Tuah girl left her previous job. As per Celebrity Net Worth, as of September, she has a net worth of $200,000.

In July, when she became active on social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram, she gained a huge number of followers in just one day, as per reports by Celebrity Net Worth. Not just career opportunities, she got attention from the entertainment industry too.

The Hawk Tuah girl had performed the Zach Bryan song Revival on stage with the singer himself. Welch also joined Shaquille O'Neal while he deejayed in Nashville. Over time, she had also appeared on some well-known podcasts like Good for You and Club Random.

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Welch has been seeing success and fame, since the video originally posted by Tim & Dee TV, went viral.