Renegade Creator

oh wow the tik tok girls already linked with the original creator of the renegade dance pic.twitter.com/Vr1gIeLcPX

— alex. (@makeupIady) February 16, 2020

Over the past week, “Black Twitter” discovered that the Tik Tok dance to the song “Renegade” by rapper K Camp was created by a young Black girl and not the white girls who got famous off of it. The original dance had been modified to match the abilities of the white girls. After Jailah had gotten her recognition, the white girls who got famous off of her dance made a video with her in it. I think this relates to class in the regard that most of my post thus far have. The stories of Black girls are often diminished by white girls and their “twist” on things. I think this is another example of “western” stories being on the front line and creating their own twist on the culture of those who do not look like them. While the video they all made together was cute, I saw it as nothing more than the white girls trying to save themselves from stealing a dance and appropriating Black culture but white washing it.