In another episode of the American hit, “Marginalized Creators: Here, Damn! ”, Jimmy Fallon, presenter of shows at night, was attacked recently after introducing to the influential one of TikTok Addison Rae that realized an instructive series of popular dances of TikTok … that she did not create. After the reaction on social media, Fallon tried to fix the error a week later.
But let me catch you very quickly in the background.
Last week, Rae appeared in a segment a Tonight’s show starring Jimmy Fallon in which he taught eight different TikTok dances (usually equally popular songs) that have gone viral. If you’ve seen most of these original dances, though, it was obvious that this was the extremely spicy and watery version. It was the “This is hip-hop!”Video.
Fallon posted the video on his official Twitter account, and that … wasn’t good for the friendly host of celebrities.
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OK. Here’s the topic: We’ve already covered it extensively. I’m talking functions all over the ass-have-been-written-about-black-creators-everyone-has-failed-at-the-beginning-levels of “covered this”. If you pay attention to the streets of popular culture, which Fallon and his producers presumably do as usual as they do jobs“There’s no way you can ‘uh!’ your way out of this. This is not something that anyone else is Right Now discovering, unless you are Christopher Columbus.
Wait … now that I think about it, that goes on.
Anyway, Monday night, Fallon decided to attracts the creators of each of the viral challenges of TikTok dance. “On our last show before the break, we did a bit with Addison Rae, where she taught me eight TikTok viral dances,” Fallon said in her introductory segment. “We now recognize that the creators of these dances deserve to have their own focus, so right now some of the creators are joining me to talk about how their dance went viral and then they will perform the dance themselves. themselves “.
The participating creators were:
My Nicole Johnson i Chris Cotter (“Up” by Cardi B)
Dorien Scott (“Corvette Corvette” by Popp Hunna)
Fur-Quan Powell also known as Fly Boy Fu i Camyra Franklin aka Indii (remix of D4L’s “Laffy Taffy”, composed by Fly Boy Fu)
Adam Snyder, Nate Nale and Greg Dahl (“Blind Lights” from The Weeknd)
Keara Wilson aka Keke (“Savage” by Megan Thee Stallion)
Not all of the featured creators were black, but … you’ll all see the pattern. The creators were invited to perform their dances virtually, which, on the surface, is mainly due to the global pandemic and possible programming challenges. Still, it was quite noticeable that Rae received the full production treatment in the studio, while the original creators were regulated to appear on the show from their home.
“[When it comes to] creators of white social networks, I do not know their inner story, but from the outside [looking in], it really looks like maybe they get credit for what we created, ”Wilson said The root in a March 2020 interview. “So young black creators, we need to support each other and surround ourselves with positive people who know what they’re talking about when it comes to this business because the window is open and we need to keep -pushing her to where we’re trying to go. “
Rae manifested in support of Black’s creators, pointing out, “They deserve all the credit because they’ve had these incredible trends,” which I guess we’re supposed to take a look at and ignore the fact that these appropriate white TikTok privileged go snatch these dances, have whitewashed them and have habitually received the majority of followers and advantages of sponsors of them? Nawl.
My main concern and concern is the original creators, especially the black ones who are often overlooked, and if that look gave them joy (they seemed to have a shitty blast), I’m happy. On top of that happiness, though, I’ll never stop defending them for deserving more and better than … that.