TikToker accused of doing blackface in viral TikTok dancing video TIKTOK: britneysinhA TikToker has been accused of doing blackface after appearing with darkened skin in a viral dance video. Content creator Britney Sinh captured a screen recording of two women dancing in a college dorm. One of them appeared to have darkened her skin. The original clip was posted by Sydni Meadows, whose account is now private. In Britney\u2019s video, she edits a close-up shot of Sydni dancing, and then at the end of the stitched clip turns the camera to herself to show a shocked reaction. The video has over 197,000 views and over 36,000 comments. Many TikTok users are now accusing the student of wearing blackface, saying they were shocked by how dark the college student\u2019s skin tone looked. Click here if TikTok doesn\u2019t load below. TikToker accused of doing blackface in viral video Most commenters under Britney\u2019s video expressed their shock about the TikToker\u2019s tan. \u201cI had the same expression when I saw,\u201d one commented. \u201cI had to bring my phone to my face to make sure I was seeing what I was seeing,\u201d another user wrote. \u201cAin\u2019t no way\u201d a third added. \u201cIt\u2019s giving Leather catchers mitt left in the sun to wither.\u201d Others implied that Sydni\u2019s tan was dark enough to be considered blackface, which is when a non-black person darkens their skin to appear black and has roots in racist 19th-century minstrel shows. \u201cI\u2019m scared, they\u2019re shapeshifting out here,\u201d one user wrote. \u201cWhy do they think they look better like that??? Like where did they ever get that idea,\u201d another commented. \u201cLiterally no way she can say it\u2019s just a tan.\u201d \u201cIsn\u2019t this considered blackface? Like that\u2019s literally a hate crime omg,\u201d someone else said. At the time of writing, the two dancing college students have yet to respond to the backlash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TikToker accused of doing blackface in viral TikTok dancing video TIKTOK: britneysinhA TikToker has been accused of doing blackface after appearing with darkened skin in a viral dance video. Content creator Britney Sinh captured a screen recording of two women dancing in a college dorm. One of them appeared to have darkened her skin. The […]<\/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-60897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60897","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=60897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}