A Timeline of the Biggest TikTok Drama of 2020

When you’ve been sitting at dwelling all yr, consuming Quorn nuggets and infrequently shifting your laptop computer mouse so that you don’t get fired – good for you! As a result of TikTokers most actually haven’t. 

In a yr when in some way nothing and every little thing occurred, influencers have been residing in a parallel universe the place the pandemic doesn’t exist. They’re having events of their mansions, moving into petty fights over followers and creating content material none of us can relate to, however will nonetheless devour simply to really feel one thing.

With extra beef than a single Selling Sunset episode, right here is the timeline of all the most important TikTok drama that occurred this yr.

White TikTokers didn’t create the Renegade dance – a 14-year-old Black dancer from Atlanta did. When the New York Instances profiled Jalaiah Harmon in February, it turned clear that her dance had been co-opted by creators like Charlie D’Amelio and Addison Rae with out preliminary credit score, kickstarting a dialog about how white creators have been favoured on the app.

For the uninitiated, Daisy Keech is the co-creator of the Hype House, a rented LA mansion mansion dwelling to a number of the largest TikTok stars. In March, Daisy posted a 22-minute now-private video on YouTube, outlining all the meat between her, co-creator Thomas Petrou and the remainder of the home.

In line with Daisy, Thomas and fellow TikTok movie star Chase Hudson (AKA Lil Huddy) approached her with the preliminary thought for Hype Home, which she invested $18,000 to kick off. However she says that she wasn’t credited as co-founder and was barred from accessing its social media and model offers. Like true Gen Zs, the Hype Home unfollowed Daisy on social media to sign her departure from earlier than she even filed a lawsuit in opposition to the opposite co-founders. Daisy went on to create her personal content material home referred to as the Clubhouse… which she has now also left.

In April, two TikTok creators from Sway Home, Hype Home’s rival collective, made a Lil Huddy diss observe that accused the 18 yr outdated of messing Charli D’Amelio round throughout their relationship. It’s an exceptionally horrible tune, and I’m sorry but when I’ve needed to take heed to it, you do too:

In July, the purpose we effectively and really misplaced our minds in lockdown, there have been rumours on #WitchTok, the supernatural nook of TikTok, {that a} group of child witches had hexed the Fae and the moon and had their eyes on the solar subsequent. Then a bunch of precise witches bought mad on the child coven and that’s how a whole lot of cursed drama started. The story did flip into a beautiful cross-platform web second, although.

Influencers crowded into the Hype House over summer season as US coronavirus instances reached unprecedented heights, with company together with magnificence YouTubers James Charles and Nikita Dragun, sisters Charli and Dixie D’Amelio and web character Tana Mongeau. In line with web comic slash rapper Elijah Daniel, many tested positive for COVID-19 afterwards, and regardless of the web backlash, the Hype Home stored throwing events. Chalk this as much as yet one more instance of influencers considering they’re above the regulation (or on this case, a virus).

In September, the TikTok influencer went to Rwanda on a two-week journey to do “charity work” with gorillas, however ended up being held in an enforced quarantine after testing optimistic for COVID-19. “The fucking authorities confirmed up at my place and got here and dragged me away from all people I used to be with,” she sobbed in a now-deleted video. “I don’t communicate the language they usually locked me on this fucking room and I can’t go away.”

She apologised and was later allowed to exit the nation after retesting detrimental, however was accused of getting a white saviour advanced for travelling in the midst of a pandemic and placing Rwandans in danger.

Ishini Weerasingh is a 21-year-old Sri Lankan TikTok creator primarily based in Canada and is generally identified for being extremely hot. However a social media scandal erupted in autumn when individuals started digging into her previous and revealed that the $80,000 she’d crowdfunded to assist survivors of the 2019 Easter bombings in Sri Lanka had not reached their supposed recipients. Ishini has since apologised unreservedly and mentioned the cash will probably be given again to those that donated.

The American-Filipino Tiktok star is finest identified for bobbing her head to songs like “M to the B” and defending her proper to behave like a cute baby. However she got here underneath fireplace in September after individuals clocked that she had a Rising Solar tattoo on her arm – an offensive image that Korean individuals regard as an indication of Japanese militarism and colonial rule.

“At the moment, I didn’t know the historical past,” she mentioned in her apology on Twitter. “However once I discovered, I instantly had it coated and scheduled for removing. I’m ashamed of myself for not doing my analysis.”

Most influencers are badly out of contact with actuality, however YouTuber Gabi Demartino sunk to new ranges when she revealed in a TikTok video that she usually blows $9,000 every week on residing bills as her pal – who works as a secretary – laughed painfully alongside. Demartino later deleted the video and apologised, including that her pal has been instructing her the best way to price range and that she initially thought it might be “fascinating to show how revenue doesn’t matter relating to buddies”. 

The Wave Home, a British content material creator home occupying a countryside mansion, are identified for his or her ridiculous member reveals through which influencers arrive in a helicopter, bathe in milk and rip through a fake Mona Lisa. A month later, a brand new collective referred to as Icon Home (attempt to sustain) tried to outdo them by having members debut in a flurry of £20 bills or proper after jumping out of a plane. By October, sadly, people were accusing them of copying the Wave House, when actually, that is simply what occurs when you may have manner an excessive amount of cash.

After Donald Trump misplaced the US election in November, pro-Trump TikTok pages Republican Hype House and The Republican Boys began posting deceptive and inaccurate movies concerning the outcomes to their million or so followers. Embarrassingly for them, TikTok needed to step in and take away the movies as a part of their election integrity tips. 

TikTok’s largest star briefly misplaced one million followers in November after complaining that she didn’t have 100 million followers on the platform. Charli mentioned she needed to hit the determine a yr in an episode of Dinner With The D’Amelios, a brand new sequence on the household’s YouTube channel. (“Was the 99 [million] not sufficient for you?” James Charles, Charli’s pal and dinner visitor on the time, shadily requested.)

Charli and her sister Dixie have been additionally accused of being ungrateful after gagging on the meals cooked by their personal chef. On a livestream, Charli later apologised and broke down, saying it was “all only one big misunderstanding”. Charli did finally reach 100 million followers, however has been accused by some of buying them.

Former Movie star Massive Brother contestant and web character Trisha Paytas isn’t any stranger to drama, however she nonetheless managed to create one of many largest fights on TikTok this yr. After she referred to as Charli D’Amelio “impolite and entitled” for complaining about not having one million followers, James Charles subtweeted Trisha as one of many “30+ yr olds dragging somebody half their age”. Trisha then accused James of being “creepy and predatory” in direction of the D’Amelio sisters, earlier than each James and Dixie D’Amelio tried to cancel Trisha for her past use of the n-word. Truthfully, it’s all gross and everybody simply must sign off.

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