Listen up all you Ariana Grande TikTok impersonators: the fun stops now because Ari just made it
clear that she doesn’t find your Cat Valentine impersonations funny or amusing in the slightest.
What’s up guys, it’s Emile Ennis Jr. back here with Clevver News, and according to Ariana,
imitation is actually the WORST form of flattery…
We love TikTok for giving us hours upon hours of sheer comedy and creative amusement, but
if you’re a public figure and superstar queen like Ariana Grande and you’re constantly
logging on to see people impersonating a skewed perception of you every hour on the hour,
it’s gonna get old real fast.
Thankfully, Ariana has taken to Instagram to air out some dirty laundry and let everyone
know her true feelings every time she sees another Cat Valentine-inspired TikTok.
We’re gonna break down exactly what she said, but before we do, make sure you subscribe
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Alright, so it’s one thing to post an impersonation of Ariana as Ariana, but it’s a whole other
ordeal to combine an impersonation of Ariana with her Victorious character Cat Valentine.
This all started back in November when an Ariana Grande look-alike named Paige Neimann
made her way onto the TikTok scene and became viral after dressing and acting exactly like
Ari.
Seriously though, if you do a quick creep through this girl’s Instagram, you’d think
you stumbled onto Ariana’s page after a little while…
In one of her videos, Paige recreates one of Cat’s lines from Victorious and it’s
actually really starting to scare me just how similar she looks to Ariana…
Anyone else also officially freaked out?
Anyway, the video went viral and has since generated over 12 million views and hundreds
of thousands of comments both praising Paige and begging her to stop.
Fans then noticed that one of the comments just so happened to be from Ariana herself
after a user who tweeted the video, captioned it saying, “I just know Ariana is terrified…”
to which she kindly replied, “i just wonder whyyyy the cat voice / dialogue.
i am sure she is the sweetest sweet sweetheart forreal!! but it’s definitely bizarre seeing
people blend the two worlds lmao.”
Many fans were in agreement with Ari, but some were actually defending Paige, claiming
that this act of harmless creativity was just something that she picked up for fun.
One user who apparently knows Paige, wrote, “she’s actually so sweet! she’s 14-15
(i can’t remember which one), and she was always told that she looks like you, so she
just learned how to do makeup like yours! it’s not like she has gone out of her way
to get surgeries and such.
it’s sad how much hate she gets.”
Anyway, fast forward five months later to yesterday, Ariana took to Instagram to repost
a video of filmmaker Jordan Firstman doing a slew of different “impressions.”
In one video in particular, Jordan criticized meme makers for basically taking a moment
that an artist might’ve worked so hard for, and turning said moment into one giant joke.
“And we put a completely arbitrary meaning onto that
thing that the artist loves so much,” and end with, “It could just be a fun b****y
thing to do”
Ok, so this guy makes a good point and also just made me feel bad for laughing at viral
memes for hours straight.
But before I get to Ariana’s response to Jordan’s video, I wanna know what you guys
think about the way we look at memes… are you now seeing where Ariana’s frustration
is coming from or do you think Cat Valentine and Ariana Grande tiktoks are fair game?
Be sure to chime in down below with all your thoughts, but all thanks to the art of screenshotting,
Ari did share her thoughts in a now-deleted Instagram story, along with some thoughts
about the girls who impersonate her on social media.
Alongside Jordan’s video, she wrote, “Omg can this please also double as your impression
of the ponytail TikTok girls who think doing that Cat Valentine voice and that wearing
winged eyeliner and a sweatshirt is doing a good impersonation of me… cause this really
how it feels…
‘Degrading its entire value’ I screamed.”
Ari made it very clear that she doesn’t want to see herself, or a variation of herself
when going online, like EVER again.
Sooo maybe next time when deciding which TikTok video to tackle, stick with the Carole Baskin
“Savage” remix, or even a sassy voiceover of Kourtney Kardashian…ABCDE!
Anyway for even more TikTok news, click right over here to see what Charli D’Amelio’s
impersonator had to say about the backlash she received.
I'm Emile Ennis Jr. with Clevver News, bye guys!