That happened to me lol. My most popular video on here had people making weird jokes and I spoke out about it… Then I got called the n-word on Instagram. 😭 Like you can’t win!
They'll be quick to call you slurs when they get mad while arguing that racism isnt an issue anymore and we're being oversensitive, its almost funny how ridiculous it is when they switch up so quick
the fact that white people, especially white women, are so comfortable mocking and disrespecting black women but then turning around pressed to look like us always makes me laugh. The entire black barbie argument was not that you couldn't like or sing the song. It's not offensive or racist to sing the song, but the entire part the black barbie song was trending was to UPLIFT black women, yet it's nothing but white women on the top of the sound claiming they're black barbies when they are not. White people get so mad when they aren't included in shit, like pls go tf away and let us have something.
Fr tho. They wanna be oppressed so badly so they think they have the right to go and hijack things that are supposed to uplift ME and the rest of us black women. Like get tf out
Ugh the whole situation made me sick like all we want is representation but they choose to disregard our feelings and sweep under the rug. What I don’t understand is why aren’t we allowed to gatekeep ANYTHING why does it have to be shared with everyone: hair, representation, aave etc… I’m so sick of it and I’m ready to see a change🥺
And then news articles use it for headlines and get even more people with no reason to give an opinion to give a racist ass take. Why did Forbes put out an article on it? Money and antagonization.
i will never understand why people think it’s black peoples’ responsibility to teach you stuff??? like what YOU don’t know or don’t care to know isn’t MY responsibility??? like you said, we’re not teachers or professors, and even real teachers and professors can’t force you to learn something you don’t care to know about, so why are your expectations for me so damn high when i’m just tryna vibe…
Chile I’m on anime tik Tok, tell me why all of the black cosplayers have white people telling them not to cosplay characters because the characters aren’t black. That response is absolute tomfoolery, but guess what Bethany, they also aren’t white. So by that same logic, white creators also should not be cosplaying Asian characters.
I hate his because those characters in anime aren’t white either, but you don’t see any of them caring when other white people cosplay. Or when any other race cosplays it’s crickets until it’s black people. I don’t hear the Japanese Asian people complaining about cosplay, and it’s their characters so white people shouldn’t. Sometimes they act like the own anime when it comes from Japan and even then they don’t gatekeep their art from the world.
The downside of being on black tiktok is seeing the racist side of everything and the harassment black people have to go through. All I want is to see fellow black people make content without seeing them getting called slurs 🤦🏾♀️
@@strudelh no seriously. There was this one food account by a black man where ALL HE DID was cook and he still got called slurs because his video got on the wrong side.
People are so violently racist on that app. I remember this Black girl was being harassed and called racial slurs by a lot of nonblack Hispanics so she called them ethnic slurs (not okay) but SHE WAS THE ONLY ONE that had to apologize and not them and I just. This happens all the time on the internet where someone will harass and be racist to a Black person and when the Black person gets fed up they’re the one that’s in the wrong and the non black person is the victim… EDIT: This is not the situation where the Afro Latina was harassed for saying “Latino is not a race.” This was another situation.
@@tannie375 there were no black people being racist, it was non-black Hispanics because she said hispanic wasn’t a race and all the non-black hispanics were calling her slurs and dropping their flags
@@EvaEndy12 nah this was another situation. I forgot the girl account. But that situation was out of pocket too. I don’t understand why they were so mad like she was right.
@@EvaEndy12 she is right and not trying to defend their actions but it gets tiering when people keep saying “hispanic / latino” isn’t a race and its like alright, we dont even have a race like, just accept hispanic / latino and move on u get it
if i remember correctly, the girl who made that video was hispanic as well. the non black hispanics were saying shit like "hispanics stick up for each other" while harrasing and calling her (an afro latina) slurs. it was absolutely disgusting reading through those comments, i hope shes doing ok
@@PabloEmanuel96 to my understanding, megan thee stallion dropped a new song and the black creators decided to not make dances for it to see what the non-black creators could come up with. said non-black creators have been struggling even though the song gives instructions on what to do.
The Black creators' TikTok strike is an incredible tech labor story and a powerful demonstration of collective action countering racist cooptation and exploitation. I hope it gets a lot more coverage than I'm seeing so far!
@@Kayla4217 black creators are refusing to make dances to new songs such a meg the stallion's thot shit It fucking hilarious watching them flounder and coming to the truth of that they need black creators to have a fun and flourishing platform
All the coverage i see is spoon fed to white people in a way that lets them get defensive and mad about it so maybe Better Coverage is what we should hope for =/
and with the renegade, when the original creator got verified people were like "why did she get verified and not [insert white creator]!!!!! 😠😠😠".................. but nah, they're still allies don't worry.
THIS!!! i literally saw on twitter someone calling a black woman “argumentative” when she was just stating her opinion and they had retweeted something posted about Juneteenth in support of black people. like people don’t realize allies can be racist and push microagressions too
on my fyp will literally be a black person doing some of the most inventive and insane makeup ive ever seen on the platform and they will actually have like 20k likes.... but then ill swipe to see a a white boy doing a natural editorial look and it has 2.2 million likes.... like what the actually fuck
It could be the cupid shuffle and I'm quite sure wyt tiktok would burn, flounder, flop, scramble to find a dance for it. The saddest part is that it's the creators that bring NOTHING else to the table that will do it...the lack of creativity is phenomenal.
not finished with the vid yet, but isnt there an algorithm on tiktok that gives an unfair advantage to paler creators/eurocentric features because they're "beautiful"? I swear I heard about it once or twice.
Yup, it's called their "beauty algorithm" and it literally only follows eurocentric beauty standards so the algorithm is always pumping out white, "attractive" creators.
THANK YOU for talking about how some black people be participating in anti-black racism - and misogynoir, specifically. Can’t even rely on your own people to have your back sometimes 🙄
Tiktok only pushing videos of black creators speaking about racism, misogyny, or general trauma is so true. I go out of my way to like and comment on dancing, singing, and fashion videos by black creators but still never see that kind of content from black creators on my fyp. 😒
When situations like us black people setting boundaries or saying such and such is making us uncomfortable, it's not taken seriously or they tell us how we should feel. It's insane.
the thing about racism on tiktok is it's "minor" to a lot of people. like you have to be called slurs and endlessly bullied to be taken seriously on there. and that stuff already happens and it's still not taken seriously
@@asdcwdfvrebttnyt2183 i feel like they make a few here and there but they don't get as popular, or something like a triller happens then tiktok comes along yknow
@@asdcwdfvrebttnyt2183 there's an upcoming app called FLOW , but they need more donates to make their app a thing. this is their Instagram : flowcreation2021
Amanda what you said about black creators only getting engagement when they’re talking about their trauma is so true, because there was this black gamer girl I was following called jai2wice and she made a video on how it’s like being a black gamer girl basically and they were calling her slurs, and that video got 2mil likes (with. nonblacks invalidating her in the comments ofc) and all other videos had about 1/4 of that amount 😭
i see it all the time with different black creators. it isn't fair ..now I'm just silently waiting for that new social media app called FLOW to come. i hope it's far better than tiktok..
I find it really sad that the Black Barbie trend didn’t even show up on my for you page, even after liking countless videos like them since being black myself. I found out about it only from other people talking about how upsetting the situation was. the algorithm is really strange
As I continue to go on tiktok I have realized I have gained so much confidence from watching black women and other poc women. I am 19 yr old black girl and tiktok is the first social media app that helped me embrace who I am rather than wanting to be someone who I’m not. I have always been aware of racism/prejudice/and mistreatment of minority groups. I do not think of myself as ignorant but on tiktok people are so quick to be racist or act in any other negative way. Like I go through accounts and all their content is blunt racism and anti-blackness and I get so disgusted. It makes me so self-aware, and it makes me REALLY ACKNOWLEDGE that certain people will look at me and just see my blackness and just make bad assumptions.
I hope it makes you aware that the friends you have around you should love you for all of you and I'm happy you can find that on tiktok even with all the wrong that app is
This is like history repeating itself. I remember how wild I thought Vine was. Like the entire purpose of Vine was to get famous by being racist. I liked Tik Tok at first because you could just make little videos of you vibing with your favorite music and it was a great way to discover new music. Now it's just about being racist and harassing people
@@freckledandred no it isn't fortunately. I deleted it but it's a great app to be on when you're extremely bored. haven't been on there in a while heh..
Literally as a black person every time I open tiktok I instantly get a wave of sadness and idk so I only do tiktok when I wanna post outfits or have fun and I knew tiktok was racist when they blocked people or deleted people account when they try to talk about racism or something that had to do with empowerment to black people and the fact the just let people post racist shit like some stuff people post on that app I’m just like how is this video up
i once had a white person tell me that it was my job to explain racial issues relating to my black experience in a way that made sense to white people since "i wanted white people to stop being racist".....
A lot of people here might not be that interested in this, but there are a lot of black cosplayers and black creators who make anime related content that really get (sugar honey ice tea) on all the time. When someone makes a fannon where a character is black, the Christopher Columbus stans will lose their minds. If anyone should complain, it would be asian people because that is where the art originated but its really these mayo muskrats getting upset. There is also a lot of people who hate when people make wattpad stories where y/n is a black woman or black person. They will be in the comments like "[enter character name here] wouldn't even like black people. They would call you slurs" and im just confused because they will really talk themselves out of believing that a fictional character could POSSIBLY like black people. Y'all probably don't care, I just see it a lot and im tired.
Frrr, I noticed how on tiktok they hate seeing bw get compliments, there could be a pretty darkskin bw on a tiktok vid and here comes the unnecessary negative comments just because smh🤦🏾♀️
This reminds me of this one black cosplayer who cosplayer as Nezuko (from Demon Slayer for those who don’t know). The cosplay was so good but ppl were attacking her and saying shes “Black-Washing” the character. But last I check…the character is Asian but you got all these white cosplayers cosplaying as that character. So wouldn’t that be white-washing🤔???? Another thing this reminds me of is whenever it’s Blacktober month and I see black creators you know reimagining anime characters as black, oh they get called all types of slurs. But if someone calls out all the times white ppl have white washed people in movies and shit even in our own history (*cough* *cough* portraying Ancient Egyptians as white *cough*) then they’re wrong???
I was just thinking this!!! I love cosplay, it's honestly so cool to see people flex their creativity and love for nerdy shit, but the treatment of cosplayers with dark skin, ESPECIALLY black cosplayers is disgusting. They always use the excuse "X character isn't black, you shouldn't dress as them" but white cosplayers do not get even a tenth of the shit that black cosplayers do when a majority of anime characters (the subject of most cosplay) are asian. So white people can dress as FICTIONAL asian characters but black can't because "they aren't the same race"? Utter bullshit. In conclusion, why are people so all up in black folks' business where we can't even enjoy our nerdy bullshit in peace 🙄
the anti blackness on that app is ……. very concerning to say the least .. plus the way you can be suspended or even banned for calling out anti blackness on tiktok, but the person perpetuating anti blackness only gets a comment deleted or a vid taken down isn’t right at all . like somebody not doing the math right 🤨
'Just like you have to report the Shade Room once every week' the way she just snuck that in there XD but seriously, I almost forgot my weekly reporting!
Literally deleted tiktok because of how racist and anti black people are...the nonsense people were saying and just how negative tiktok was for my mental health🙄
amanda it was such a breath of fresh air to hear the things i say everyday said. no one around me gets these points and i see it on tiktok everyday. tiktok would literally crumble without black people.
It’s annoying cause the only way blk ppl can blowup is if their funny or they dance . Like why can’t they just sit and be pretty and get 100k likes , like yt ppl
you definitely make a good point. the “is if they’re funny or if they dance” part of your point is reminding me of how white people saw black people during the height of minstrel shows. only finding interest in the black people being “funny” (usually being overly goofy) or dancing /:
It's honestly not surprising that tiktok is this way, it's made in china and they are pretty widely racist towards black people in particular. Just check the Chinese reviews for the Black Panther movie
i literally got called racist for saying a specific word was aave. 🤨 and they said “you’re racist because you’re ok with AAVE dividing black people and white people.” 😦 and i literally got 40+ notifications of white people and non black people harassing me and gaslighting me because i said one sentence: “__ is aave.”
We are told that we are “gatekeepers” if we try to simply tell a white women we don’t want her to wear braids in her head, or when they say something that is very much so racist and we tell them “stop don’t say that please” we are GASLIGHTED about it and told that we need to “calm down” and that we are “doing the most” and I’m just like ugh it’s so irritating white people wouldn’t be anywhere without the stuff they take from black people that we have put out there.
im so glad that other people have noticed that the only content by black creators that is being pushed by tiktok are the video where they talk about their trauma! when i noticed that i started only liking videos of black people (and other poc as well) showing off their talents and accomplishments. now my fyp is full of people doing the most amazing things and showing off their cultures.
the racism and harassment happening on tik tok is some of the most toxic internet behavior i’ve ever seen. every black creator i follow has had issues with either vids being taken down or account suspension. then the top yt dance creators literally have entire careers profiting off of black creators’ work and they have never made one dance for themselves!! literally like modern day elvis presleys on there with how much they steal.
I've also found that spending a longer time and engaging with more of a single person's content helps your algorithm. So when I follow someone I go through their old tik toks and like them, comment, favorite, etc. Also, thank you providing those links in the description!
I really enjoy your content, I found your channel right before quarantine and your channel really helped my mental help, like you have the best personality, and remind me so much of my irl friendss
I'm not black but indian , heck we don't even have tiktok here but having vitnessed racism towards black people I stand with black tiktokers . I'm tired of this bs. Racism will not be tolerated in the 2020s. 🙏🏽
I like black tik tok, indigenous tik tok (yt ppl so pressed over the “hey colonizer”), decolonizing christianity, and learning to move my hips tik tok. But black tik tok calling ppl out or when mixed with other communities that begin to act anti black. Is hella hella hella exhausting so I have to clear out “not interested” too often I finally downloaded tik tok this past April and tried a lot to get those featured creators off my fyp. And yes Tik Tok is so blatantly catered to yt creators. Instagram does it too tho but more lowkey.
i'm not very far in the video so if you do end up mentioning this then i'll delete the comment but the boundary thing immediately made me think of a video someone made (they might have deleted it at this point since im having a hard time finding it) of someone saying how white or nonblack people on the app get weirdly giddy about overstepping someone's boundaries especially if they're made by a black woman. it was in reference to a black woman that was asked not to be called by sis by nonblack people and they were still calling her sis and some of them got a weird amount of joy out of it
I am SO glad this video was made. UA-cam just knew... I joined 2 months ago and quickly got to 128k but the racism and the awful regulations from Tiktok honestly pisses me off. I get flagged/stuff removed CONSTANTLY and warnings about getting banned for VIRTUALLY NOTHING/the same things yt people post with no response or issue. Mind you, all my content is PG-13... OK IM DONE VENTING
@@MichaelMadlock at the end of every TikTok video you should ask people to follow you on your other platforms like UA-cam or Instagram. TikTok is a lost cause so try to get viewers on more sustainable apps. Your account can get banned at any moment so try to transfer your followers while you can.
The black tik tok strike is the funniest and best thing to ever happen to this season of the internet.
Not this season of the internet 😭😭
Never ending series
This season of the internet is sending me lol
right bc they STRUGGLING DOWN
nah cause it’s bad for them 😭😭
it's quite crazy that black people simply try to set boundaries and literally get called slurs for doing so.
EXACTLY!!! The entitlement is sickening and quite frankly makes me want to throw hands, so I just deleted TikTok for my mental health
It's getting weird to me.
@@lesbiangoddess290 it’s been weird 😬
That happened to me lol. My most popular video on here had people making weird jokes and I spoke out about it…
Then I got called the n-word on Instagram. 😭 Like you can’t win!
They'll be quick to call you slurs when they get mad while arguing that racism isnt an issue anymore and we're being oversensitive, its almost funny how ridiculous it is when they switch up so quick
the fact that white people, especially white women, are so comfortable mocking and disrespecting black women but then turning around pressed to look like us always makes me laugh. The entire black barbie argument was not that you couldn't like or sing the song. It's not offensive or racist to sing the song, but the entire part the black barbie song was trending was to UPLIFT black women, yet it's nothing but white women on the top of the sound claiming they're black barbies when they are not. White people get so mad when they aren't included in shit, like pls go tf away and let us have something.
Fr tho. They wanna be oppressed so badly so they think they have the right to go and hijack things that are supposed to uplift ME and the rest of us black women. Like get tf out
Ugh the whole situation made me sick like all we want is representation but they choose to disregard our feelings and sweep under the rug. What I don’t understand is why aren’t we allowed to gatekeep ANYTHING why does it have to be shared with everyone: hair, representation, aave etc… I’m so sick of it and I’m ready to see a change🥺
Y’all spit nothing but facts in this comment and the response comments like PREACH 🙏
they just can’t let black women have anything on the app
@@mar-wb5qz literally
it’s gotten to the point where black tiktokers won’t even make a dance to songs because they’re tired of not getting credit for them.
And then news articles use it for headlines and get even more people with no reason to give an opinion to give a racist ass take. Why did Forbes put out an article on it? Money and antagonization.
As they should because enough is enough.
that's just sad. I am so done.
@@Noumm But why coward down and simply let them get what they want?
i will never understand why people think it’s black peoples’ responsibility to teach you stuff??? like what YOU don’t know or don’t care to know isn’t MY responsibility??? like you said, we’re not teachers or professors, and even real teachers and professors can’t force you to learn something you don’t care to know about, so why are your expectations for me so damn high when i’m just tryna vibe…
I have never related more in my life
like ppl forget its not someone's else responsibility to teach them, its their own responsibility to learn
preach
@@lesbiangoddess290 bhbbh bbWwxwxxax
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Chile I’m on anime tik Tok, tell me why all of the black cosplayers have white people telling them not to cosplay characters because the characters aren’t black. That response is absolute tomfoolery, but guess what Bethany, they also aren’t white. So by that same logic, white creators also should not be cosplaying Asian characters.
I hate his because those characters in anime aren’t white either, but you don’t see any of them caring when other white people cosplay. Or when any other race cosplays it’s crickets until it’s black people. I don’t hear the Japanese Asian people complaining about cosplay, and it’s their characters so white people shouldn’t. Sometimes they act like the own anime when it comes from Japan and even then they don’t gatekeep their art from the world.
And then they tell them to cosplay sister krone like she isn’t literally the mammy stereotype
People do this??? Yikes. It’s a character why the fuck would it matter
THE reason I’ve been afraid to cosplay anime characters. I had to create my own original characters to avoid the racism
The downside of being on black tiktok is seeing the racist side of everything and the harassment black people have to go through. All I want is to see fellow black people make content without seeing them getting called slurs 🤦🏾♀️
There has not been ONE blk tiktok account that i've seen where someone hasn't been called a slur, its upsetting.
@@strudelh no seriously. There was this one food account by a black man where ALL HE DID was cook and he still got called slurs because his video got on the wrong side.
Ik this isn't related but i love your black momo pfp! She looks really good
@@rose_dagger2634 thank you 🥰
EXACTLY
How do you dance to a song that says ”hands on my knees” and decide not to Put your hands on your knees⁉️
The bleach demons don't even shake their a*s like the SONG TELLS THEM TO!
@@chelsea_sarfo6388 BLEACH DEMONS?!?!?!?!?!?!
@@kobimorgan6522 yes, bleach demons😁
"Aaa! 😜 *sways to the side and flicks wrist*"
LITERALLY THE INSTRUCTIONS ARE THERE
People are so violently racist on that app. I remember this Black girl was being harassed and called racial slurs by a lot of nonblack Hispanics so she called them ethnic slurs (not okay) but SHE WAS THE ONLY ONE that had to apologize and not them and I just. This happens all the time on the internet where someone will harass and be racist to a Black person and when the Black person gets fed up they’re the one that’s in the wrong and the non black person is the victim…
EDIT: This is not the situation where the Afro Latina was harassed for saying “Latino is not a race.” This was another situation.
@@tannie375 there were no black people being racist, it was non-black Hispanics because she said hispanic wasn’t a race and all the non-black hispanics were calling her slurs and dropping their flags
Is it that girl who said Hispanic isn’t a race? She’s right tho
@@EvaEndy12 nah this was another situation. I forgot the girl account. But that situation was out of pocket too. I don’t understand why they were so mad like she was right.
@@EvaEndy12 she is right and not trying to defend their actions but it gets tiering when people keep saying “hispanic / latino” isn’t a race and its like alright, we dont even have a race like, just accept hispanic / latino and move on u get it
if i remember correctly, the girl who made that video was hispanic as well. the non black hispanics were saying shit like "hispanics stick up for each other" while harrasing and calling her (an afro latina) slurs. it was absolutely disgusting reading through those comments, i hope shes doing ok
“would rather cornrow grass than be a creator on tiktok” LITERALLY SAME LOL
Cornrow flower crowns actually sounds like a pretty craft idea. 🌺
thats why black tiktokers are on strike and im here for it. LET THE MAYO PEOPLE SUFFER
Mayo people😭
What strike? I haven't heard of it
@@PabloEmanuel96 to my understanding, megan thee stallion dropped a new song and the black creators decided to not make dances for it to see what the non-black creators could come up with. said non-black creators have been struggling even though the song gives instructions on what to do.
TBH triller and dubsmash are nicer to us
Mayo people 🤣😆
The Black creators' TikTok strike is an incredible tech labor story and a powerful demonstration of collective action countering racist cooptation and exploitation. I hope it gets a lot more coverage than I'm seeing so far!
It should be more prominent in the media/ news! But as usual media is silent on such matters 😔 good to see UA-camrs discussing this!
What strike huh
@@Kayla4217 black creators are refusing to make dances to new songs such a meg the stallion's thot shit
It fucking hilarious watching them flounder and coming to the truth of that they need black creators to have a fun and flourishing platform
All the coverage i see is spoon fed to white people in a way that lets them get defensive and mad about it so maybe Better Coverage is what we should hope for =/
Yes it should! Creative strikes are amazing!
and with the renegade, when the original creator got verified people were like "why did she get verified and not [insert white creator]!!!!! 😠😠😠".................. but nah, they're still allies don't worry.
THIS!!! i literally saw on twitter someone calling a black woman “argumentative” when she was just stating her opinion and they had retweeted something posted about Juneteenth in support of black people. like people don’t realize allies can be racist and push microagressions too
@@kobimorgan6522 they aren't allies
@@kobimorgan6522 that's not a allie thats a poser
@@jimjimjimmy7793 true
@@kobimorgan6522 people just wanna call themselves "allies" for the woke coins (i hate using the word woke but you get what i mean)
on my fyp will literally be a black person doing some of the most inventive and insane makeup ive ever seen on the platform and they will actually have like 20k likes.... but then ill swipe to see a a white boy doing a natural editorial look and it has 2.2 million likes.... like what the actually fuck
This
or literally just mouthing to a song… tik tok in general is just is a breeding ground for uncreativity
@@brcsephina Generally speakong, creative people are actively being driven off of the platform, you're lucky if you're not being plagarized.
Black tiktokers are the *backbone* of tiktok. From the viral dances to the comedy. Black people fuel tiktok for sure.
Sounds like American culture to be honest. WE ARE THE CULTURE.
@@lesbiangoddess290 watch someone come under you comments and disagree with you just to disagree. I’ll give it a week lmao
@@reynahjohnson6246 I second to that.
@@reynahjohnson6246 people dont like hearing that they arent original.
It's the way that without black people on tiktok, the app wouldn't be nearly as popular/creative as it is now. 💀
the way they were STRUGGLING to find a dance to Thot Shit
Prophetic is what you are...fast forward a week later its dry as hell and Megan's song is being trashed on...its giving desert...Sahara 🙄✋🏽
Haven't even finished the video yet but I agree with everything Amanda says
fr
Exactly
she never misses
Same
Fr she has always spoken nothing but facts
One thing I’ve seen on tiktok is non-black people trying to educate black people on their own culture… like it’s weird asf??
Girl that part
they act like they know everything about black culture because they have a black friend or read an instagram infographic about black lives matter
Oh, I hate that shit SO much. 😒
THOSE PEOPLE DESERVE JAIL TIME
It could be the cupid shuffle and I'm quite sure wyt tiktok would burn, flounder, flop, scramble to find a dance for it. The saddest part is that it's the creators that bring NOTHING else to the table that will do it...the lack of creativity is phenomenal.
Or better yet, they’d copy our dance in the most flavorless fashion and then call it a trend 🤣
oh one yt girl tried to make a dance to the wobble and black tiktok nipped that in the bud quick !
NOT THE CUPID SHUFFLE 😭
not finished with the vid yet, but isnt there an algorithm on tiktok that gives an unfair advantage to paler creators/eurocentric features because they're "beautiful"? I swear I heard about it once or twice.
yeah, it's the same disgusting feature that filters out disabled pople and... "bad lighting"? whatever that means
I adore your pfp
Yup, it's called their "beauty algorithm" and it literally only follows eurocentric beauty standards so the algorithm is always pumping out white, "attractive" creators.
THANK YOU for talking about how some black people be participating in anti-black racism - and misogynoir, specifically. Can’t even rely on your own people to have your back sometimes 🙄
Non black people are over here begging to say slurs like huh???
And asking nicely to culturally appropriate
right it’s getting weird….
Yeah like we all know u want to say slurs bc u don't like being told u can't do something 😑
Like what do they gain
@@lavender1653 no but fr its been getting weird for a LONG ass time
as a black tiktoker, that platform is literal hell on earth
the blatant racism on tiktok is very concerning and like they don’t even do anything to help it at all.
I’ve never been on TikTok. Still clicked. 😄Knowledge is power. Lol
Same
Same sis same
Same.
Tiktok only pushing videos of black creators speaking about racism, misogyny, or general trauma is so true. I go out of my way to like and comment on dancing, singing, and fashion videos by black creators but still never see that kind of content from black creators on my fyp. 😒
Crazy how the yt creators cannot make a simple dance to megs song😭😭😭
Watching them flounder made my juneteenth wonderful
@@ayannabranchcomb7535 it was MARVELOUS okeh😭
I just dont understand cause the dance moves in the song like how???😶
@@Pidge980 IT’S LITERALLY “HANDS ON MY KNEES SHAKING ASS ON MY THOT SHIT” 😭😭😭 ????
Like these are the most self explanatory lyrics since the Hokey Pokey.
the “no critical thinking, just vibes” is so hilarious
I can’t wait till that app die out honestly I feel bad for black creators and black people who use it
Samme. I feel bad and should go I think this is dangerous.
It's so easy for tiktok comment sections to turn racist I scroll for two seconds max under any video and it's always there
When situations like us black people setting boundaries or saying such and such is making us uncomfortable, it's not taken seriously or they tell us how we should feel. It's insane.
I totally agree
and they constantly call us sensitive.
lol last year i tweeted that i didn't want nonblack strangers calling me "bestie" or "sis" and a bunch of nonblacks ratioed me using those exact terms
the thing about racism on tiktok is it's "minor" to a lot of people. like you have to be called slurs and endlessly bullied to be taken seriously on there. and that stuff already happens and it's still not taken seriously
All these apps are hell for black creators 🥴 but tiktok is def a different ballgame for sure
@@asdcwdfvrebttnyt2183 i feel like they make a few here and there but they don't get as popular, or something like a triller happens then tiktok comes along yknow
@@asdcwdfvrebttnyt2183 there's an upcoming app called FLOW , but they need more donates to make their app a thing. this is their Instagram : flowcreation2021
“I would rather cornrow grass” 😂😂😂🤣
i went on tiktok and the first black creators ratio was literally 21.6 million likes to 309.8k followers 😐....in what world does that make any sense
I had to take a whole break from tik tok because I was tired of reading the palm colored people on that app.
PALM COLORED-😭
Amanda what you said about black creators only getting engagement when they’re talking about their trauma is so true, because there was this black gamer girl I was following called jai2wice and she made a video on how it’s like being a black gamer girl basically and they were calling her slurs, and that video got 2mil likes (with. nonblacks invalidating her in the comments ofc) and all other videos had about 1/4 of that amount 😭
i see it all the time with different black creators. it isn't fair ..now I'm just silently waiting for that new social media app called FLOW to come.
i hope it's far better than tiktok..
this is why I will never download tiktok and continue to just keep watching selective compilations of them on UA-cam lol
I find it really sad that the Black Barbie trend didn’t even show up on my for you page, even after liking countless videos like them since being black myself. I found out about it only from other people talking about how upsetting the situation was. the algorithm is really strange
It was so bad yt women were comparing a black girls natural hair to covid.
wait what happened, i’ve heard about the black barbie situation but i don’t know what happened
@Ya_awaa • omfg of course they did, but thanks for telling me the story i appreciate it lol
As I continue to go on tiktok I have realized I have gained so much confidence from watching black women and other poc women. I am 19 yr old black girl and tiktok is the first social media app that helped me embrace who I am rather than wanting to be someone who I’m not. I have always been aware of racism/prejudice/and mistreatment of minority groups. I do not think of myself as ignorant but on tiktok people are so quick to be racist or act in any other negative way. Like I go through accounts and all their content is blunt racism and anti-blackness and I get so disgusted. It makes me so self-aware, and it makes me REALLY ACKNOWLEDGE that certain people will look at me and just see my blackness and just make bad assumptions.
I hope it makes you aware that the friends you have around you should love you for all of you and I'm happy you can find that on tiktok even with all the wrong that app is
I can’t get over when said cornrow grass 💀
Same
Finally, Amanda get on they ass because they've been misbehaving like black tiktok doesn't create every trend🙄
This is like history repeating itself. I remember how wild I thought Vine was. Like the entire purpose of Vine was to get famous by being racist. I liked Tik Tok at first because you could just make little videos of you vibing with your favorite music and it was a great way to discover new music. Now it's just about being racist and harassing people
Vine’s co creator made a new app called Byte!!!! 😁😁😁 It used to be like vine but then they turn themselves into TikTok. 🧐🧐🧐
@@MeMarcusTheCreator Is it racist too?
@@freckledandred I haven’t really seen anything problematic, then again I haven’t been on the app in a while. But I would try it! 😁
@@freckledandred no it isn't fortunately. I deleted it but it's a great app to be on when you're extremely bored. haven't been on there in a while heh..
the secondary conversation speaking to black people and how they treat other black women was very necessary and appreciated.
I already know this is gonna eat. Let me get my Wendy’s, some soda and a blanket cause this is gonna be good
I think tiktok just shows how rascist people still are and how not much has changed it has just been more covered up
I haven’t even watched the video yet but I’m already thinking of like three situations this could be about… when will we be free😐
today i saw a video that said “why do people hate black people so much” and after reading the top comments i had to delete the app
I deleted the app when I saw a tik tok saying that black women are the most racist demographic
Literally as a black person every time I open tiktok I instantly get a wave of sadness and idk so I only do tiktok when I wanna post outfits or have fun and I knew tiktok was racist when they blocked people or deleted people account when they try to talk about racism or something that had to do with empowerment to black people and the fact the just let people post racist shit like some stuff people post on that app I’m just like how is this video up
I hate and love TikTok at the same time... People there are weird, stupidly racists and disgusting
uh oh the bonnet is out- lemme buckle in chile
i once had a white person tell me that it was my job to explain racial issues relating to my black experience in a way that made sense to white people since "i wanted white people to stop being racist".....
A lot of people here might not be that interested in this, but there are a lot of black cosplayers and black creators who make anime related content that really get (sugar honey ice tea) on all the time. When someone makes a fannon where a character is black, the Christopher Columbus stans will lose their minds. If anyone should complain, it would be asian people because that is where the art originated but its really these mayo muskrats getting upset.
There is also a lot of people who hate when people make wattpad stories where y/n is a black woman or black person. They will be in the comments like "[enter character name here] wouldn't even like black people. They would call you slurs" and im just confused because they will really talk themselves out of believing that a fictional character could POSSIBLY like black people. Y'all probably don't care, I just see it a lot and im tired.
Frrr, I noticed how on tiktok they hate seeing bw get compliments, there could be a pretty darkskin bw on a tiktok vid and here comes the unnecessary negative comments just because smh🤦🏾♀️
i hate it so much when people do/say things like that, like we enjoy the same piece of media please leave me alone
This reminds me of this one black cosplayer who cosplayer as Nezuko (from Demon Slayer for those who don’t know). The cosplay was so good but ppl were attacking her and saying shes “Black-Washing” the character. But last I check…the character is Asian but you got all these white cosplayers cosplaying as that character. So wouldn’t that be white-washing🤔???? Another thing this reminds me of is whenever it’s Blacktober month and I see black creators you know reimagining anime characters as black, oh they get called all types of slurs. But if someone calls out all the times white ppl have white washed people in movies and shit even in our own history (*cough* *cough* portraying Ancient Egyptians as white *cough*) then they’re wrong???
@@theelevatedone3944 cleopatra is an example as one of the white washed characters in history.
I was just thinking this!!! I love cosplay, it's honestly so cool to see people flex their creativity and love for nerdy shit, but the treatment of cosplayers with dark skin, ESPECIALLY black cosplayers is disgusting. They always use the excuse "X character isn't black, you shouldn't dress as them" but white cosplayers do not get even a tenth of the shit that black cosplayers do when a majority of anime characters (the subject of most cosplay) are asian. So white people can dress as FICTIONAL asian characters but black can't because "they aren't the same race"? Utter bullshit. In conclusion, why are people so all up in black folks' business where we can't even enjoy our nerdy bullshit in peace 🙄
the anti blackness on that app is ……. very concerning to say the least .. plus the way you can be suspended or even banned for calling out anti blackness on tiktok, but the person perpetuating anti blackness only gets a comment deleted or a vid taken down isn’t right at all . like somebody not doing the math right 🤨
hopefully they can make a black tiktok because i’m so tired. we deserve a safe space to create
Can a black tech genius make us our own app to migrate to?
probably, but you gotta think about the kind of app developers that investors give their money to
We do it's called BLK I think. Only black people allowed
That’s what we need. This strike is just the beginning. We should’ve had a black TikTok or Twitter ages ago.
there’s an app called b-heard that was created recently by a black guy, i have the app and i wish more people were on it because it has potential
@@byesialater wait Fr?
'Just like you have to report the Shade Room once every week' the way she just snuck that in there XD but seriously, I almost forgot my weekly reporting!
Literally deleted tiktok because of how racist and anti black people are...the nonsense people were saying and just how negative tiktok was for my mental health🙄
amanda it was such a breath of fresh air to hear the things i say everyday said. no one around me gets these points and i see it on tiktok everyday. tiktok would literally crumble without black people.
As a black person on tiktok, I am 🤏 close to just stop creating. It’s really not fun anymore 😭
Please stop. Don't give these people content to steal or a chance to harass you.
Dee honestly I appreciate your motivation thank you… but the climate of tiktok right now is something I’m not really feeling atm :/
This is my new favorite Amanda video. This is exactly why I don't have tiktok.
I refuse to download that app for the exact reasons she stated in this video
Same.
Amanda emphasizing how TikTok hates black ppl is very funny to me bc it’s so damn true
It’s annoying cause the only way blk ppl can blowup is if their funny or they dance . Like why can’t they just sit and be pretty and get 100k likes , like yt ppl
Even when they’re dancing circles around non-black people, they still don’t blow up. A random white girl sneezes and she’s an instant millionaire.
@@nairabee245 and on top of that they don’t get dance creds
you definitely make a good point. the “is if they’re funny or if they dance” part of your point is reminding me of how white people saw black people during the height of minstrel shows. only finding interest in the black people being “funny” (usually being overly goofy) or dancing /:
I disagree I've seen plenty black people get fame for that (gigitheblackbarbie)
@@yanaghouleh very interesting how times haven't changed very much at all. It's just more insidious
It's honestly not surprising that tiktok is this way, it's made in china and they are pretty widely racist towards black people in particular. Just check the Chinese reviews for the Black Panther movie
Commenting for the alligator rhythm 💖 super excited for this.
The intro video-😭
It’s iconic.
They always hit tbh
Yeah I still don't ever see myself downloading this app.
as terrible as people are on tiktok it’s just so nice to see black and transgirls who look are like me so i feel community
THESE ADS 😭 amanda in her bag
yt people will do nothing and somehow still get to the top of a sound 😭
amanda looks like shes crying glitter and it’s actually really pretty
i literally got called racist for saying a specific word was aave. 🤨 and they said “you’re racist because you’re ok with AAVE dividing black people and white people.” 😦 and i literally got 40+ notifications of white people and non black people harassing me and gaslighting me because i said one sentence: “__ is aave.”
we’re being fed so well 🥲
We are told that we are “gatekeepers” if we try to simply tell a white women we don’t want her to wear braids in her head, or when they say something that is very much so racist and we tell them “stop don’t say that please” we are GASLIGHTED about it and told that we need to “calm down” and that we are “doing the most” and I’m just like ugh it’s so irritating white people wouldn’t be anywhere without the stuff they take from black people that we have put out there.
"i would rather cornrow grass" PLS 😭😭😭
ALSO NOT MARY ELIZABETH SUE BYE 😭😭
Watching the yt’s trying to be original is hilarious- I have a good time laughing at them
theres literally a trend on tiktok that goes viral every other week that directly relates to antiblackness. its disgusting
TikTok without Black creators is just music.ly. so it would be shit basically. This is a great video
Can black programmers make a new app, I would love to see a platform made from black people for black people!
I had to delete it bc every scroll was either a somewhat funny video or racism...
this is LITERALLY tiktok.
im so glad that other people have noticed that the only content by black creators that is being pushed by tiktok are the video where they talk about their trauma! when i noticed that i started only liking videos of black people (and other poc as well) showing off their talents and accomplishments. now my fyp is full of people doing the most amazing things and showing off their cultures.
Your content has sent me down rabbit holes of self education and I’m grateful for your place on this platform
the racism and harassment happening on tik tok is some of the most toxic internet behavior i’ve ever seen. every black creator i follow has had issues with either vids being taken down or account suspension. then the top yt dance creators literally have entire careers profiting off of black creators’ work and they have never made one dance for themselves!! literally like modern day elvis presleys on there with how much they steal.
I really love that you decided to share that patreon video here. Thank you for the content you make
ya girl just graduated college and still manages to bless us with another vid thank u queen
I've also found that spending a longer time and engaging with more of a single person's content helps your algorithm. So when I follow someone I go through their old tik toks and like them, comment, favorite, etc. Also, thank you providing those links in the description!
I really enjoy your content, I found your channel right before quarantine and your channel really helped my mental help, like you have the best personality, and remind me so much of my irl friendss
The way i been waiting for this video on this topic WHEW
Giving us 3 videos in a row is a blessing😍🙏
I'm not black but indian , heck we don't even have tiktok here but having vitnessed racism towards black people I stand with black tiktokers . I'm tired of this bs. Racism will not be tolerated in the 2020s. 🙏🏽
on a completely unrelated note AMANDA YOUR SKIN IS LOOKING SO GOOD
you literally said everything i've been thinking for the past 3 weeks.
I like black tik tok, indigenous tik tok (yt ppl so pressed over the “hey colonizer”), decolonizing christianity, and learning to move my hips tik tok.
But black tik tok calling ppl out or when mixed with other communities that begin to act anti black. Is hella hella hella exhausting so I have to clear out “not interested” too often
I finally downloaded tik tok this past April and tried a lot to get those featured creators off my fyp.
And yes Tik Tok is so blatantly catered to yt creators. Instagram does it too tho but more lowkey.
They love our truama but they hate us just living.
i'm not very far in the video so if you do end up mentioning this then i'll delete the comment but the boundary thing immediately made me think of a video someone made (they might have deleted it at this point since im having a hard time finding it) of someone saying how white or nonblack people on the app get weirdly giddy about overstepping someone's boundaries especially if they're made by a black woman. it was in reference to a black woman that was asked not to be called by sis by nonblack people and they were still calling her sis and some of them got a weird amount of joy out of it
THANK YOU FOR SPEAKING UP FOR US SIS
Unrelated but do an “Everything Wrong with Total Drama”! That would be such a funny review!
**cough** leshawna’s elimination
@@whatthehellisthis that was foul ngl.
@@whatthehellisthis BRUH I WAS ROOTING FOR HER SHE WAS MY GIRL
@@whatthehellisthis yess
@@whatthehellisthis The elimination shouldn't had happened in the first place!!!!
you need to put these videos in podcast form. i'd totally listen to this why i'm doing stuff around the crib.
I am SO glad this video was made. UA-cam just knew... I joined 2 months ago and quickly got to 128k but the racism and the awful regulations from Tiktok honestly pisses me off. I get flagged/stuff removed CONSTANTLY and warnings about getting banned for VIRTUALLY NOTHING/the same things yt people post with no response or issue. Mind you, all my content is PG-13... OK IM DONE VENTING
What kinda content do you post I'm thinking about posting workout videos on there but I'm wondering if I'll get strikes for no reason
@@kovarcoley8418 anime commentary
@@MichaelMadlock at the end of every TikTok video you should ask people to follow you on your other platforms like UA-cam or Instagram. TikTok is a lost cause so try to get viewers on more sustainable apps. Your account can get banned at any moment so try to transfer your followers while you can.