The video took off and currently has over 5 million views and 847,000 likes. Dru and Perry's wife, Lyndsey, recorded a video where they turned him into a 'VSCO' dad, which was a fashion style for teenagers in 2019 involving scrunchies, Hydroflask water bottles, and a deep love for saving the turtles.

The video that launched his TikTok career, however, came four days later. Perry's video had been picked up by TikTok's algorithm and currently has over 811,000 views and more than 74,000 likes. I was like, 'Dru, do you know what's happening here?' And she's like, 'you're on the For You Page' and I'm like, 'the for you what?'' he said. The video was the first of his to blow up, Perry said. He was then convinced by his daughter Dru to post the video on TikTok, a social media app that rose in popularity in 2019, on account that she made for him that they ultimately named BillyVSCO. It all started with a football trick shot video.īilly Perry, a dad from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, decided to film himself kicking a football over his house and into his backyard pool in August 2019.