He continued, “That means if you’re a white dancer or a white social activist who’s built social capital off of Black creativity and Black thought, your content is now mine no credit, no tag.”
Louis encouraged other Black creators to join him in this movement “in an effort to shed light and bring awareness to the suppression and anti-Blackness we face daily on this app.” He ended the video by saying, “See you at the top.”
The three videos he posted after his proclamation are of himself doing popular TikTok dances and claiming he made the dances himself. In the comments section of one of the videos he “colonized,” he wrote, “From this point on, any content I ‘create’ (colonize) will be hashtagged with #seeyouatdatop so you guys can distinguish from my original content.”
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