The videos of the high school student hit the mark as soon as he embarked on Tik Tok, during confinement.

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Arthur Baucheron

  • The TikTok account of Arthur Baucheron, a 17-year-old Bordeaux high school student, is a great audience success. 

  • He explains his life in a wheelchair with good humor and derision. 

  • Its goal is to change the way young people see people in wheelchairs. 

On the social network TikTok, Arthur Baucheron, a 17-year-old Bordeaux high school student, has a total of almost 550,000 subscribers.

Suffering from type 2 spinal amyotrophy, a muscular disease that weakens him a lot and forces him to move in a wheelchair, he wants to change the way people look at disability, especially young people.

Arthur Baucheron wants to change the way young people see people in wheelchairs.

- Arthur Baucheron

How did you get started making videos on TikTok?

Basically, I made videos to introduce myself on TikTok at the end of March, beginning of April and I saw in the comments a lot of questions about my disability and how I was living it.

During confinement, I told myself that this was the opportunity to answer them on TikTok and Instagram.

Today you have 546,000 TikTok subscribers, was your account an immediate success?

It's crazy, I did not expect such success at all.

This pleases me, because I have hundreds of testimonials from young people who tell me that I have helped them to change their outlook on people in wheelchairs.

There are even very young people who write to me and tell me that before they were afraid of it, that they did not know how to approach them and that they thought that these people lived at home, stuck in their armchairs. or in their bed.

I want to show that you can be in a wheelchair, be young and enjoy your life, love your life.

Do you remember which video marked your first audience hit?

As soon as I started it took, straight away there were a lot of views.

But the first video that really worked a lot was the one where I explain how I'm doing the pool.

I detail that we must take me under the arms and under the thighs and put me on the first step, I then go down little by little.

Among my first videos, the one where I show how I put my airpods on had a million views, while it's quite stupid ... In another, I respond to a comment that asked me how fast I could reach in a wheelchair, and that - it has exceeded one million views.

Do you know a little about the profile of your subscribers?

It's a fairly educational account so there are adults who follow me, such as caregivers for example, but mostly on TikTok it is young people, even very young, who are subscribers.

Do you intend to use this little notoriety?

I am in contact with the town hall of Bordeaux to carry out small operations around the handicap.

My goal is to change the view of young people on disability, to show in a good mood that you can enjoy your life, not be sad.

And later what would you like to do professionally?

I would like to work on social networks or in communication, community manager for example for a media that would please me a lot.

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  • Aquitaine

  • Bordeaux

  • Handicap

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  • Disabled

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