Cheerlebrities?

What do you get when you mix cheer and celebrity together? Cheerlebrity. As ridiculous as it sounds, it is a popular term in cheerleading. A cheerlebrity is a cheerleader with a large social media following.

For example, Carly Manning has 488,388 followers on Instagram. Carly Manning was on Cheer Athletics Panthers for 3 years until last year when she made Wildcats. Carly has won the World Championships twice and continues competing to win again.

Cheerlebrities promote products and are spokesmodels for different brands. They get paid to post photos onto their very popular accounts to help the company sell things. The girls are treated as celebrities and if spotted, fans will run up and ask for autographs and pictures.

They are often criticized to no end. How can somebody be so famous and not an all-around amazing cheerleader? The girls are popular but there will always be something to say about why they’re “cheerlebrities.”