Benson Smith

Benson Smith was born on February 28, 1999 in Atlanta, Georgia to Kristina Smith; her father’s name is not known to the media. She has four siblings, including a sister named Savannah and a brother named Kyle. Her parents separated when she was quite young. In 2010, her mother lost the custody of Benson and all her siblings but eventually won the case in 2017. Through her mother’s remarriage, Benson has a stepfather named William.

A vocal supporter of LGBT rights, Benson is a lesbian herself. She has about 24 tattoos on her body, including a “fuck off” in American sign language, several piercings, and ear tunnels.

As an aspiring performer from childhood, Benson Smith set up her accounts on Twitter and Instagram in early-to-mid 2015. Initially, there was hardly any fan activities in these accounts but she soon began to garner a modest amount of fame on social media. However, it was the decision to set up an account on the relatively new social media app Musical.ly that proved to be one of the most important and influential decisions of her young life. She primarily uploads a mix of her lip-sync, dance, and glitch videos. She has earned the highly lucrative “crown” on the app.

Benson sang an ‘All Time Low’ cover in 2016. In December that year, she collaborated with Aiden Gabriel and in January 2017, read comments on her Musical.ly account on camera and later posted the video on YouTube. In the same year, she also posted a video of her reacting to other Musical.ly users.

Her mother is her most frequent collaborator. Kristina Smith has been featured on bxns0n’s YouTube videos, Instagram photos, and Musical.ly posts. She considers her mother to be her biggest supporter.

She also has accounts on Teespring and Depop, which she uses to sell her merchandise.

A while back, Benson set up a GoFundMe fundraising campaign so that she could buy plane tickets to Los Angeles.