Ariana Grande slams her \u201cdegrading\u201d TikTok lookalikes Ariana Grande, YouTube \/ Paige Niemann, InstagramPop sensation Ariana Grande is one of this generation\u2019s most popular music artists \u2014 so much so that she\u2019s even got a viral copycat on TikTok, but it doesn\u2019t look like she\u2019s too fond of the copycat\u2019s videos. TikTok creator Paige Niemann went viral in late 2019 for a video where she dressed up as Ariana Grande, nearly becoming the spitting image of the singer with the same high ponytail, makeup, and mannerisms. That\u2019s not all; Niemann combined her makeover with audio from Grande\u2019s performance as Cat Valentine in Nickelodeon show \u2018Victorious,\u2019 leading to a seriously uncanny resemblance of the pop star that took the internet by storm. While months have passed since the viral video was released, it doesn\u2019t look like the buzz around the subject is easing off, with Grande giving a pointed reply to filmmaker Jordan Firstman. In a video, Firstman hit out at content creators for making memes of moments that artists worked hard to create, giving them a spin that might undermine their efforts for a few laughs online. \u201cIf we took a moment from that and we kind of like, re-contextualize it\u2026 we put a completely arbitrary meaning on to the thing the artist loves so much, [is] kind of like degrading its entire value,\u201d Firstman explained. Grande commented on his thoughts in a now-deleted post via her Instagram story, where she seemed to agree with his stance and even compared it to her viral TikTok impersonator. \u201cCan this please also double as your impression of the ponytail TikTok girls who think that doing the Cat Valentine voice and wearing winged eyeliner and a sweatshirt is doing a good impersonation of me?\u201d she wrote. \u201c\u2018Cause that\u2019s really how it feels\u2026 \u2018degrading its entire value\u2019 I screamed.\u201d Needless to say, it doesn\u2019t seem like Grande is cool with people impersonating her beloved character from Nickelodeon fame \u2014 having spoken out about it when TikTok initially went viral in November 2019. i just wonder whyyyy the cat voice \/ dialogue. ? i am sure she is the sweetest sweet sweetheart forreal !! but it\u2019s definitley bizarre seeing people blend the two worlds lmao. \u2014 Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) November 24, 2019 Niemann has since replied to Grande\u2019s thoughts on her lookalike videos, during a live stream as reported by BuzzFeed. \u201cI\u2019m used to Ariana shading me, so it\u2019s whatever,\u201d she admitted. \u201cI\u2019m just here to entertain people. It\u2019s not how I am in real life. It\u2019s kind of why I\u2019m not a fan of her anymore, honestly.\u201d With a slew of top TikTok stars having also experienced their own copycats in the past month, Grande\u2019s message couldn\u2019t come at a more appropriate time, with names like Charli D\u2019Amelio and Nessa Barret likewise dealing with negative drama due to lookalikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ariana Grande slams her \u201cdegrading\u201d TikTok lookalikes Ariana Grande, YouTube \/ Paige Niemann, InstagramPop sensation Ariana Grande is one of this generation\u2019s most popular music artists \u2014 so much so that she\u2019s even got a viral copycat on TikTok, but it doesn\u2019t look like she\u2019s too fond of the copycat\u2019s videos. TikTok creator Paige Niemann […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}