FLORIDA TEACHER EMERGES AS TIK TOK STAR, EYES HOLLYWOOD
In the jargon of the internet, Casey Hamilton is chaotic good.
He is the human embodiment of “dance like no one’s watching,” with a disarming wholesomeness bred in his native Plant City.
The 25-year-old dresses like a flamboyant 9-year-old with a credit card and no parental supervision, and makes it look good, right down to his trademark pink Crocs festooned with Jibbitz, the little cartoon charactershaped charms he adds to the rubber shoes’ ventilation holes.
Hamilton is actually a lot like a pair of Crocs: comforting, immediately funny, utterly unpretentious, and actually pretty great if you can get over yourself.
His TikTok account, @mrhamilton, has 5.6 million followers, and a lot of energy. He does voices. Maybe a spot-on Plankton from SpongeBob SquarePants, or the “how it feels to chew 5 gum” guy talking about how it feels to run a meth lab. Maybe an impression of the neighbor who knocked on his door to randomly offer him an entire
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