TikToker Lauren Kettering apologizes after \u201cdisrespectful\u201d video Instagram: Lauren KetteringTikTok star Lauren Kettering has made a lengthy apology after fans called her out for seemingly mocking tics in her latest upload. In a now-deleted TikTok with boyfriend Giovanny Valencia, Lauren can be seen lip-syncing before twitching and appearing to imitate tics. Tics are repeated sounds, movements or twitches a person\u2019s body makes that are often involuntary, meaning that the person is unable to stop themselves from experiencing. They\u2019re thought to occur due to changes in the part of the brain that controls movement. Involuntary tics are a common symptom of neurological disorders such as Tourette\u2019s Syndrome. Consequently, a lot of fans took issue with Lauren appearing to make light of these tics considering how they relate to neurological disabilities. One TikTok user said: \u201cI find this so disrespectful, my brother has tics and he can\u2019t help them but here are influencers mocking them as if they\u2019re something to joke about.\u201d View this post on Instagram Meanwhile, over on Instagram, one fan admitted that the video \u201cdoesn\u2019t feel right\u201d, while another said: \u201cHow the actual ff is someone making fun of something a person cannot control? It\u2019s literally a mental illness [sic].\u201d Read More: Charli D\u2019Amelio\u2019s dad slams social media – In response to the criticism, Kettering quickly removed the video and posted a statement apologizing. In the statement, she insisted that she \u201cwould never ever mean any malicious intent or intentionally try to mock anyone.\u201d View this post on Instagram She continued: \u201cTo be completely honest, I didn\u2019t even know much about tics until today so now I know and I\u2019ve learned my lesson I\u2019m super sorry for anyone that I offended.\u201d Who is Lauren Kettering? Lauren Kettering, 16, is a rising TikTok personality. Known for her lip-syncing and dance freestyle videos, she has 6 million fans on the app and over 300 million likes overall. She\u2019s also making waves on Instagram, where she has 1 million followers. Her rise to fame led to her being part of TikTok content collective Not a Content House, where she lived with other online influencers like Sabrina Quesada, Anna Shumate, Ava Tortorica, Eva Cudmore and Cynthia Parker. Kettering announced that she would be leaving the House earlier this month to focus on \u201cpersonal projects.\u201d She has also recently taken the next step into acting, as she was cast in the Brat series Attaway General.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TikToker Lauren Kettering apologizes after \u201cdisrespectful\u201d video Instagram: Lauren KetteringTikTok star Lauren Kettering has made a lengthy apology after fans called her out for seemingly mocking tics in her latest upload. In a now-deleted TikTok with boyfriend Giovanny Valencia, Lauren can be seen lip-syncing before twitching and appearing to imitate tics. Tics are repeated sounds, […]<\/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-61244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61244","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=61244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}