Tayvion Power is an American social media star who is the son of popular internet personality, recording artist, actor, producer and comedian DeStorm Power. He started his social media career as a preteen on Vine and later began uploading videos on YouTube. He is currently active on TikTok and occasionally posts pictures on Instagram. He also acted in films and television series like Clown, Stuck with You and True Story.
Career
Tayvion Power joined social media early on, following in the footsteps of his father DeStorm. He posted his first video to Vine on June 12, 2013, when he was 12 years old. He quickly earned viral fame on the platform, earning over 200k followers within five months. Thanks to his creativity and comic timing, he was able to amass over a million fans on the platform, but eventually moved to other platforms. He was previously active on Instagram with the handle @tayvionpower_ and on Twitter with the handle @power_tayvion. While he has deleted most of his Instagram posts, his last post was on December 3, 2022. He was popular on musical.ly, which later became TikTok, where he has a huge fan base on his profile @tayvionpower.
He had joined YouTube on July 28, 2012, but started posting on his eponymous channel in April 2016. However, his earliest video currently is I got caught !!! from June 8, 2016. He continued to upload challenge videos, reaction videos, funny skits, pranks, story time videos, and later started posting gaming related videos. On June 20, 2017, he featured his father in the video He liked my gift!! Happy Father's Day w/DeStorm Power. He has collaborated on his videos with other popular social media stars such as Carter Reynolds, River Bleu, Deshae Frost, and Malak Watson. He became inactive on YouTube after June 2020, but later returned to post one last video titled IM BACKKK !!!!! on April 11, 2021, and although he promised to upload more vlogs, he has not been active on YouTube since then.
Apart from social media, he has appeared as an actor in small roles in a few series and films. He featured alongside Kevin Hart in the Netflix series True Story in 2021, and had previously appeared in the series Stuck with You (2020) and the horror thriller film Clown (2019).
Family Life
Tayvion Power is the son of DeStorm Power who had also started his career on social media. While the identity of his mother was never revealed, she passed away in 2008, when he was just 7 years old, after fighting with stomach cancer. He was subsequently raised by his father. He spent his childhood in Washington, D.C., but later moved to Los Angeles, California with his father. His paternal grandmother is Mashala Power. He is best friends with fellow social media star River Bleu, whom he has featured in several of his videos as a family member and sometimes as a sister, like in the video I CATFISHED MY SISTER (SHE LIKES HIM).
