TikTok Star Addison Rae recently went on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to endorse her new single and to also teach him some famous tiktok dances. However, fans aren’t pleased because not once did Addison take time to credit the black creators that originally created them.
One on twitter even posted a side-by-side video of Addison dancing along with the original black creators of the dances and said “This is what white privilege looks like.” The person also said that Addison Rae performed the dances in a really ho-hum way compared to the OG black creators. Ooh, the ultimate shade of it all!
Addison Rae gets backlash for tiktok dances
The Tonight Show, upon seeing the backlash, thankfully addressed some of the issue by posting the names of the original creators on their twitter feed later. Addison later told TMZ that she and Jimmy Fallon, even though they had not publicly addressed it up until this point, have been talking about it privately all this time and that neither she, nor Fallon, had meant to steal any original content from these creators.
She went onto say that it was hard to credit people during the actual show, but that she thought they were credited in the youtube posting. She also said that she loved all the creators involved and she hoped that one day they could all organized a meet up and dance together. She said she’s even working on some collaborations with some of the original creators once quarantine is over.
Someone suggested that The Tonight Show could have mentioned the original creators on the cue cards, which I suppose no one thought of at the time when they were asking Addison to get up and strut her stuff.
A lot of people are worried because Tiktok’s algorithm has a habit of burying POC creatives, in fact, a few have tried to join tiktok’s POC creator fund only to find that the next day their accounts have been deleted so I don’t know what sort of Denny’s coffee cup you’re serving, TikTok but that isn’t funny.
Either way, Addison Rae doesn’t run tiktok so that isn’t quite her fault, but someone should have done better research. We’ll keep you posted. Stay tuned!!!
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