This girl named her dog Addison Rae and sold the Instagram handle for literal thousands

So Addison Rae recently announced she’s changed her stage name to just be Addison, which is kinda fair as she’s not got much competition over others with the same name. But on the back of her success, a woman on TikTok is claiming she actually made thousands of pounds from an Instagram handle – and it’s all thanks to her dog.

Bobbie Curtis Lee made a TikTok video where she explained that he actually chose the name Addison Rae for her dog 13 years ago. Naturally, she made her an Instagram account (we’ve all been there) and that was that.

But Addison’s TikTok era obviously shot her to fame and people started offering money for the @addisonrae handle, which Bobbie happened to own.

Now you hear stories about this, but no one really knows how this all works. Bobbie claimed that she was able to sell the Addison Rae Instagram handle not for a few hundred dollars, but for $7,500.

@bobbiecurtislee2.0

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Bobbie explained that in the summer of 2012, she had just turned 16 years old and she loved the name Addison because of a band she liked at the time called Addison Road. She said: “I just really loved the name Addison and I thought Rae was just a perfect pair. So I named my new puppy Addison Rae, having no idea that 10 years from now Addison Rae would be the name of a very famous TikToker.”

She added that she created the account to edit filters of her Labrador without having to post them on her personal account: “So it was around 2012 or 2013 when I’d created the Instagram @addisonrae for the sole purpose of being able to save pictures on my phone with the iconic Instagram filters.

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“I already had my own personal Instagram which I still have today but this Addison Rae account was strictly to upload pictures to save them onto my phone with the filters and do it anonymously so that none of my friends from high school would see them. Lucky coincident I guess.”

Bobbie explained that she then created a TikTok account in 2020 and blew up to over a million followers by 2021, when she also happened to come across the dancer and TikToker Addison Rae.

She explained it still “took a while to make the connection” because she hadn’t used the Addison Rae Instagram page in years at that point. But she did notice that the influencer had an extra “E” on her own Instagram handle. Bobbie said: “I’m like, holy shit. The handle addisonrae is already taken – by me bitch.”

That’s when she made a “very ironic little video directed at Addison” where she explained that the reason she had to make a handle with an extra “E” on the end is because of her.

Bobbie said she got loads of random people sending offers for the Addison Rae Instagram handle, but the most she was offered was around $10,000. However, a legit business then got in touch and offered $5,000 but Bobbie was able to raise them to $7,500.

She said: “They sent me the money and I gave them the handle. It was pretty clear their intention was either to sell it to Addison Rae herself which was kind of a long shot in my opinion because she’d already built her platform up quite a bit so to give that up just for a username seemed unlikely. Or they wanted to use it as a business tactic to hopefully drive traffic to their page since Addison Rae is such a searched figure on Instagram.”

@bobbiecurtislee2.0

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In the TikTok posted on July 12th, Bobbie posted a screenshot of the page showing it “vacant to this day”, adding: “I’m happy with the money I made, I don’t think I could have made much more.” It’s crazy that THE Addison Rae still isn’t using the handle and it’s just sat there unused.

Some people seemed to think that she’d let it go for cheap, with one person writing: “They only paid $7.5k? Babe”.

Another user, Nick, wrote: “Noooo girl u could’ve made so much more.”

Bobbie’s business tactics seem strong, but someone called Yellow Man Hello also said “I would’ve asked for at least 100k but this is such a funny story lmaoo.”

But hey, that’s an easy wage if we’re being frank here. Someone else caught the same wave, writing: “Brb gonna start predicting the names of pop stars and hoarding usernames.”

Bobbie added that her dog just celebrated her 13th birthday in June, but that they sadly had to put her down this month. Lets hope she had a good send off with her hard earned cash.

Featured image via TikTok @bobbiecurtislee2.0