Benjamin Aleksander Krol (born: December 14, 2000), better known online as Benji Krol is a Brazilian-Canadian TikToker and YouTube vlogger. Benji posts occasional vlogs on his YouTube channel doing make-up, or generic life vlogs.
Personal life[]
Benji was born in Brazil and is bisexual and was in a relationship with Jorge (JeyJey). Benji currently lives near Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain.
TikTok career[]
Benji began his career originally on the platform musical.ly around 2016 and slowly rose to a small level of fame over early 2018.
After musical.ly merged into TikTok, his popularity continued to rise over the remainder of 2018 and early 2019. Around the time that Benji entered into a relationship with JeyJey Gardi, Benji's TikTok followers grew exponentially, and currently is still growing in popularity on the platform.
He has recently been cancelled and uncancelled for a false accusation of grooming a minor.
YouTube career[]
Benji began his YouTube channel on March 1, 2014. However, it wasn't until four years later on March 27, 2018 that he uploaded his first video entitled: "Whats on my phone???".
At the same time Benji's musical.ly/TikTok account began to increase in popularity, his YouTube channel followed suit.
Grooming incident[]
On August 22nd, 2020 a Twitter user claiming to be 15 with the handle @Anonymo82303766 posted a thread accusing Krol and his boyfriend, Garay of grooming them by sexting and sending them sexually explicit images.
As a result, Krol immediately went on hiatus on all his social media and released a statement on Twitter about it claiming he's in hospital for attempting suicide and Garay had left him. Krol has also released a video onYouTube explaining the incident in full.