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I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.

If you don't follow TikTok, you might not know like everyone is mad at Jimmy Fallon and Addison

Ray. Let me break it down for you. Last week on the tonight show with Jimmy Fallon,

TikTok dance star Addison Ray joined host Jimmy Fallon for a segment called Addison Ray teaches

Jimmy eight TikTok dances. Now on its face, it was a cute segment where Addison Ray showed

Jimmy Fallon how to do eight dances that have gone viral on the platform TikTok, as Jimmy held up signs for the audience with each dance's name.

But the backlash started when folks pointed out that, like most viral dances on TikTok, the dances were created by Black Youth on the platform.

Now, Jimmy Fallon's team says when they uploaded the segment to YouTube, they included

the credits in the description, but that's pretty different from crediting them on the show.

And it would have been pretty easy to put the name of the creator on the title card,

but they didn't.

If you were watching, you might have even thought that Addison, who is white, created

the dances.

This is just the latest example of what black creators on

social media say happens to them all the time. They create something that takes off on social

media platforms, and it's just assumed to belong to the entire internet, which on its face doesn't

seem so terrible, but it actually does matter who gets credit for things that go big online and who

doesn't. Other people benefit materially from things that black people create online, while those

original black creators go overlooked, and in some cases, completely unnamed.

We in this beach, gonna get crunk, abrise on fleek, da fuck.

Most of us had heard the expression on Fleek.

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