Nash Grier, born Hamilton Nash Grier on December 28, 1997, in Greensboro, North Carolina, grew up in a household built around social media before that career path even existed. His parents are Chad Grier, a longtime marketing and talent manager who later managed his son’s career, and Elizabeth Floyd. He has two brothers, Will Grier, who went on to play quarterback at Florida and West Virginia before being drafted by the Carolina Panthers in 2019, and Hayes Grier, who became a Vine star in his own right, plus a younger half-sister, Skylynn. Grier was a freshman at Davidson Day School outside Charlotte when Vine launched in early 2013, and he began posting short comedy clips for his classmates before the app carried him far beyond his hometown.

These family and early biographical details are documented on his Wikipedia biography page.

Grier’s Vine account grew quickly once he started posting six-second comedy sketches in 2013, and within months brands were paying him directly for exposure. His management told reporters at the time that companies paid him between 25,000 and 100,000 dollars to feature products such as Sonic milkshakes and Virgin Mobile plans in a single clip. He reinvested that early money into a camera and video-editing software rather than personal spending, using the gear to raise the production quality of his Vines. Before any of that, his family’s two-acre property outside Greensboro doubled as a practice field where he ran the sports drills that later showed up in his early videos.

The brand-deal figures and the family property detail are reported by HuffPost.

In October 2013, Grier joined Magcon (Meet and Greet Convention), a touring group of Vine’s biggest names, including Cameron Dallas, Shawn Mendes, Jack Johnson, Jack Gilinsky, Matthew Espinosa, Aaron Carpenter, Taylor Caniff and Carter Reynolds, that let fans meet their favorite Viners in person. He launched his YouTube channel that same November, giving him a second platform to build alongside Vine. By the time TIME magazine profiled him in March 2015 he had grown to more than 11 million Vine followers, the most of any user on the platform, with his comedic clips racking up roughly 2 billion views combined. Magcon splintered in April 2014 over management disagreements, and Grier relocated to Los Angeles with fellow member Cameron Dallas to be closer to the talent agents courting them.

The Magcon lineup and breakup are documented on his Wikipedia page, his Vine follower count and view totals are reported by TIME, and his move to Los Angeles is reported by HuffPost.

TIME named Grier one of its Most Influential Teens of 2014, then followed up in March 2015 by placing him on its list of the 30 Most Influential People on the Internet, noting that his Vine fame had already translated into a movie contract, a Good Morning America appearance and national endorsement deals. He took the lead role of Jack Sanders in the Fullscreen-backed feature “The Outfield,” which premiered in November 2015, and two years later he played Gil in the Netflix teen thriller “You Get Me” opposite Bella Thorne, released in June 2017.

The TIME recognitions are reported by TIME, and the “You Get Me” cast and release details are documented on Wikipedia.

Grier’s crossover from Vine star to mainstream teen media figure was cemented by press coverage that dubbed him the “King of Vine” when Aeropostale announced its clothing partnership with him in October 2014, by which point he had grown to 9.2 million Vine followers. He later took a guest role as Tommy “TJ” Jenkins in the 2019 television revival of “Scream,” extending his acting resume beyond the Fullscreen and Netflix projects that first introduced him to a broader audience.

The “King of Vine” framing and his 2014 follower count are reported by PR Newswire, and his “Scream” role is documented on Wikipedia.

Long before he had a clothing line to his name, Grier’s core income came from six-second branded Vine placements for companies such as Sonic and Virgin Mobile, deals his management said were worth between 25,000 and 100,000 dollars apiece depending on the brand and campaign. The Aeropostale partnership that produced UnitedXXVI went further than a single sponsored post, functioning as an ongoing multi-year design and marketing relationship that put his name on in-store signage and product tags rather than a one-off endorsement.

The per-Vine brand-deal figures are reported by HuffPost and by TIME, and the Aeropostale design partnership is detailed by PR Newswire.

Grier’s biggest commercial venture was UnitedXXVI, a clothing line he co-designed with Hayes Grier, Cameron Dallas and Carter Reynolds that launched exclusively in Aeropostale stores and online on October 26, 2014, with pieces priced between 13 and 20 dollars. The four creators had a combined social following of more than 20 million at the time of the launch, which Aeropostale’s leadership described as tapping directly into the platform where its teenage customer base already spent its time. Alongside the clothing line, Grier put out a handful of branded mobile games and apps, including Cash Dash, Mobli and Challenged, and co-founded the DigiTour live-event business with Cameron Dallas after Magcon’s 2014 breakup, extending his Vine-era fame into ticketed fan tours.

The UnitedXXVI launch details are reported by PR Newswire, and the mobile games and DigiTour venture are documented by TheCityCeleb.

Grier’s real estate footprint is thin on the public record compared with some of his Vine-era peers who bought homes as teenagers. The clearest documented detail is that he grew up on a two-acre family property outside Greensboro, North Carolina, that served as an informal training ground before Vine ever entered the picture, and that he left North Carolina in 2014 to relocate to the Los Angeles area to pursue acting and business opportunities alongside Cameron Dallas. No home purchase, price or address for Grier has been reported by a mainstream outlet, suggesting his early earnings went toward production equipment and business ventures such as UnitedXXVI rather than a real estate portfolio.

The Greensboro family property and the 2014 Los Angeles relocation are reported by HuffPost.