Hunter Allen on Tiktok and How to Roll with the Punches

Photo by Syd Trip

The lights are low at The Smell in Los Angeles. The space is alive and way more chaotic than the mural of a serene desert scene along the tops of the walls would suggest. The pit is filled with people bouncing off the old brick walls, moshing to the band, Chase Petra, on stage. A group of kids ask the front woman, Hunter Allen, to spit on them, and she takes a drink of water and sprays it into the crowd. Fast forward a month later, and the space is empty, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“In retrospect,” Allen says, “I’m like…oh fuck.”

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