Posted on 03/31/2021 5:35:33 AM PDT by Red Badger
Jimmy Fallon may have booked one of the biggest social media stars on his show with Addison Rae, but not everyone is excited about the TikTok celebrity’s late night stint. Rae, who appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last Friday (March 26), joined Fallon on stage to show off some the dances she performs TikTok; but users of the platform were quick to point out that it wasn’t Rae who originated the choreography — it was mostly Black creators who weren’t receiving the same credit or attention.
In the bit, titled “Addison Rae Teaches Jimmy 8 TikTok Dances,” Fallon holds up different cue cards with the names of popular TikTok dances on them while Rae shows him how to do each one. Not long after it was posted on Friday, the clip went viral as people began to call out Fallon for featuring Rae, who is white, performing the dances, and not the Black creators who first introduced them, per Buzzfeed. Fallon also left out the names of the creators, leaving Rae as the face of some of the most popular dances.
“Stealing from black entertainers and having white ‘creators’ regurgitate it to the masses is american history 101,” one Twitter user replied to the video of Rae’s performance. Another commented, “Jimmy Fallon is a prime example of performative activism. The chance to bring out black creators but finds one yt girl instead to do the dances created by black creators.”
Fallon’s bit got plenty of attention, but it’s not the first time he’s had a white TikTok star on the show to perform content by Black creators. Last March, he welcomed Charli D’Amelio, one of the platform’s most popular users, on his show to teach him dances in the same type of segment. With Friday’s show, fans grew frustrated that Fallon had now featured two stars from TikTok on his show, neither of which created the platform’s most popular dances.
According to Buzzfeed, the creators of the dances performed by Rae on The Tonight Show are as follows: Do It Again: @noahschnapp, Corvette Corvette: @yvnggprince, Laffy Taffy: @flyboyfu, Savage: @keke.janjah, Blinding Lights: @macdaddyz, Up: @theemyanicole, and Fergalicious: @thegilberttwins.
Watch the full Tonight Show segment with Addison Rae in the video above.
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The only redeeming feature of the woke community is its penchant for cannibalism.
Somewhere Al Jolson is laughing.
The progressive Democrat white men who run three woke corporations that own CBS,NBC, and ABC have hired three woke white men Colbert, Fallon and Kimmel to host their late night shows. BLM is slipping. What an opportunity to shake these guys down. Get Colbert, Fallon and Kimmel to do the right thing. They must publicly renounce their white privlidge and resign on the air. Then introduce their replacements. Is America ready for Stacey Abrams, Cardi B and perhaps Kayne West to tuck them in at night and offer them sweet dreams?
They are just making fools of themselves now.
Arsenio Hall is rubbing his hands in glee....
Wonder when everyone will be concerned about all the RAP music that samples older white written songs? I’m assuming that will be the next crisis to come out.
Complainers were appropriate technology that they did not invent
Jimmy Fallon will soon issue a weepy, groveling apology. No doubt about that. The only question is how weepy and groveling it will be. I predict it will be a 6 on the Groveling Scale, where:
0 = the person tells the complainers to go to hell
10 = the person issues a sorrowful apology, then resigns in shame
I don’t think he will apologize at all, so ‘0’..................
Entertainers have been “borrowing” things from other entertainer since the beginning of time.
And for the record, Michal Jackson did not originate the moon walk he “borrowed” it from another lesser known dancer.
Brook Shields look-alike.
I love the smell of liberals eating each other.
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