Face behind Libs of TikTok account revealed for first time

The woman behind the viral Twitter account Libs of TikTok has revealed her identity for the first time. 

Chaya Raichik’s name was exposed in April by Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz, who formerly worked as a reporter for DailyMail.com, but she’s kept her physical appearance under wraps until Tuesday evening. She appeared on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show to put a face to the name of the Twitter account with nearly two million followers. 

The former real estate agent from Brooklyn, New York, appeared on the show in order to personally identify herself and explain what made her decide to finally go public.

‘I think I’ll be a lot more effective when I’m not so anonymous anymore,’ Chaya told Carlson. ‘And I’m excited, I already have a couple speaking engagements planned.

‘I want to help people fight this [liberal] agenda.’ 

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Chaya Raichik, the creator behind Libs of TikTok, revealed her face for the first time on Tuesday night 

She revealed herself on Tucker Carlson and told him she finally decided to go public to ‘help people fight this [liberal] agenda’ 

Chaya originally chose to keep her account, which debuted in November 2020 under a different name, private, after she ‘realized the hatred that the left has and their violent nature.’ 

‘I was like: “I am going to remain anonymous” … and I have remained anonymous until my account was doxxed [by Lorenz],’ she said. 

Chaya’s account reposts liberal TikToks, which she claims shows adults grooming or sexually exploiting children. Her two-year-old account intends to spread awareness of far-left ideologies being implemented in classrooms and online. 

‘They don’t want it to be shown to certain audience though. They want their content out there, but they don’t want us to see it,’ she told Carlson. ‘The crime is noticing what they’re doing.’ 

Now, the Republican wants to help ‘educate people’ and create legislation to fight against the things she reposts on her account. 

‘I have never done any in-person events. And I am choosing to do that now because I feel like over the past few months, I have done so much,’ she told Carlson. ‘I’ve helped educate people, I know that I’ve helped create legislation to tackle some of these issues. And I think I have done all I can and I am ready for the next step.’ 

She said she often gets inquires from ‘mom groups’ for help and ‘invitations to help people understand how to expose the left and how to fight it.’ 

‘Being anonymous… I was restrained from doing all of those things, and I am ready to do that. I think I will be a lot more effective when I am not so anonymous anymore,’ she said on the show.   

Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz (pictured) exposed the former real estate agent’s name in an article published in April 

Chaya, who calls herself a ‘journalist,’ said her account started as TikTok got big during the pandemic and she stumbled across far-left content. 

‘Everyone has seen some of the video. There’s so much more [out there],’ she said on the show. ‘[I thought] I need to disseminate this. This is so bizarre and dangerous. I need as many people to see this as possible.’ 

She said she was concerned by how many teachers and parents sexualized children on the app and that’s what she decided to base her account on. 

Recently, Chaya has posted a TikTok of a ‘queer’ teacher who claimed a student came out to her as ‘agender,’ but was forced to ‘misgender’ the student ‘every time I see their homophobic parents to protect them cuz their 12.’ 

Chaya captioned the repost: ‘Why would a teacher need to “protect” a 12-year-old from their parents? This is groomer talk.’ 

Chaya’s account reposts liberal TikToks, which she claims show adults grooming or sexually exploiting children under inclusive rhetoric

Her two-year-old account is intended to spread awareness of the far-left ideologies being implemented in classrooms and online

In another TikTok, a transgender woman can be seen clutching her stomach as she experiences her ‘first intense period’ after undergoing hormone therapy. 

Chaya wrote: ‘Only women have uteruses and only women can menstruate.’ 

Although transgender women can not experience an actual period, doctors have said they can undergo PMS symptoms, such as cramping, as a side effect of hormone therapy, according to Medical News Today. 

She also posted a screenshot of what appears to be a teacher with a pride flag hung up on the whiteboard, which she captioned: ‘This looks like an ad for homeschooling.’ 

Each post was viewed between 900,000 to nearly 10million times. 

One Twitter user compared Chaya to the Washington Post journalist, who hit back, claiming that Chaya ‘runs a hate account’ and that she was a proper ‘journalist.’ Meanwhile, Chaya, who is a self-proclaimed journalist, hit back, saying Lorenz ‘complimented me on my journalism’

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She also recently posted a screenshot of a tweet where a user compared her physical appearance to Lorenz’s. 

The post claimed they were the same person, but Lorenz defended herself, saying: ‘Haha two white women with brown hair!! LOL, one runs a hate account and says gay people shouldn’t exist the other is a journalist whose done extensive investigative reporting, they’re basically the SAME because women amirite!?!?’

The self-proclaimed Republican journalist replied: ‘BREAKING: Taylor Lorenz aka Tay Tay comes out as homophobic and describes her account as a “hate account” while complimenting me on my journalism.’ 

She also claimed that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis offered for her to stay at the Governor’s Mansion after Lorenz’s story broke in April. 

‘When I was doxxed, someone from Ron DeSantis’ team called me. She said, ‘The governor wanted me to give you a message. He said if you don’t feel safe—you or your family – if you need a place to go, to hide, to stay, you can come to the governor’s mansion

‘We have a guest house for you and you can come and stay as long as you need,’ she told Carlson.