Quenlin Blackwell

About

Quenlin Riquera “Quen” Blackwell (born January 17, 2001) is an American influencer, model, and comedian. She first found success on Vine as a teenager in the mid-2010s with comedic videos before shifting to other social media platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok. As of 2025, she hosts the YouTube interview series Feeding Starving Celebrities.

Quenlin Blackwell was born on January 17, 2001 in Dallas, Texas. She was raised in a predominantly white suburb of Dallas after she moved from Cincinnati, where the rest of her family is from, when she was about three years old. She has described the move as “traumatic” and her upbringing in Texas as alienating, stating that she had to “constantly convince” her friends at the time “why [she] deserved their consideration”. As a child, her father was in prison. She started a YouTube channel when she was eight years old and began posting videos online at age nine. She also participated in cheerleading. She attended Allen High School in Allen, Texas.

In 2015, when she was 14 years old, Blackwell started posting comedic videos on the video sharing platform Vine, where she gained over 500 thousand followers in…