Toowoomba trick-shot sensation blowing up on TikTok
Toowoomba football sensation Jed Hockin has amassed a huge following on TikTok in just a few short months, with hundreds of thousands of fans watching his trick-shots from across the world.
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Jed Hockin is the Toowoomba football sensation who has gone viral a number of times in recent years thanks to his incredible trick-shots.
The 20-year-old has been sharing his skills online since he was a teen, drawing the attention of Nickelodeon and global football powerhouse Real Madrid.
He has been shared on Real Madrid’s platform several times, the most recent being last year when he created a video sharing what he’d been up to from home.
The clip was so impressive Real Madrid shared the video to its 111m Facebook fans, 86.3m Instagram and 55.8m Twitter followers.
He’s won admiration on all his social media accounts including his Facebook with 6,200 followers, his verified Instagram account with 399,000 followers and YouTube with 7,300 subscribers.
Now, Mr Hockin has joined the newest social media app TikTok and has already amassed another 300,000 followers with his goal to reach 1 million.
He uses his account to post daily video of his trick-shots with up to 100,000 people viewing one video alone.
The videos he has been posting for the past 10 months have amassed a huge 6.2 million likes in total.
As well as trick-shots, Mr Hockin also answers questions asked by fans to help them better get to know him.
Follow Mr Hockin on TikTok by searching Jed Hokin.
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