What’s Really “Up” With That TikTok Dance
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🗓️ 3 April 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
On the latest episode, hosts Rachelle Hampton and Madison Malone Kircher talk to Mya Johnson and Chris Cotter, two teen TikTok stars who created a dance challenge set to Cardi B’s No. 1 hit “Up.” Fellow TikTok creator Addison Rae appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to perform their dance, along with seven other popular TikTok dances, without giving credit to any of the creators. A Twitter user tweeted a side-by-side video of Chris and Mya’s original choreography and Addison’s Tonight Show performance, demonstrating just how watered down the moves had become.
Chris and Mya are here to discuss how the two first linked up, what they thought about Addison Rae’s performance, and the experience of watching their moves go viral without them.
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| 0:00.0 | If Addison Ray was talking to us right now, what would you say to her? |
| 0:05.6 | Ooh, I don't know. |
| 0:07.8 | I feel like definitely Maya would have some words for her. |
| 0:12.9 | Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton. |
| 0:14.6 | And I'm Madison Malone Kircher. |
| 0:16.6 | You're listening to I see YMI. |
| 0:19.1 | In case you missed it. |
| 0:20.4 | Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:22.9 | And speaking of the internet, Madison, did I just see that you accidentally tweeted something that was supposed to be a reply? |
| 0:33.5 | I know how to use Twitter. |
| 0:35.1 | Please listen to this internet culture podcast. |
| 0:37.5 | Yeah, I did. Okay. It was a mistake. I thought I this internet culture podcast. Yeah, I did. |
| 0:38.3 | Okay, it was a mistake. |
| 0:39.5 | I thought I was replying to someone. |
| 0:40.8 | And instead I just context list tweeted, no. |
| 0:45.7 | Um, yeah, welcome to I-CYMI where at least one of us understands how Twitter works. |
| 0:50.4 | But today we're not going to be talking about Twitter for like once in our lives. |
| 0:53.7 | We're going to be talking about the latest controversy on a different platform. |
| 0:57.7 | TikTok. |
| 1:00.8 | So Addison Ray Easterling is a white TikTok star who has a whopping 79 million followers, a burgeoning pop career, and a starring role and a forthcoming reboot of |
| 1:13.7 | She's All That, because clearly we cannot make a movie that is not a superhero movie or a reboot |
| 1:18.8 | in 2021. |
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