- Jimmy Fallon! - Yeah, I saw this.
- Stop. She's literally living such a dream life.
The tea is piping. We're getting right into it.
- I know. (laughs)
♪ (punk rock intro) ♪
- Oh my god. - Oh, Renegade!
- Ah. (laughs) - (laughs) You can't not do it.
- Yeah, I'm like... I might know who this is.
- Ha, boom, boom. - I know exactly who this is.
- Oh! - Ah, Charli, Charli, Charli.
- So, we have a lot more to show you, but as you guys
probably know, that is TikTok star Charli D'Amelio doing
the Renegade dance, which became very popular on TikTok.
- Didn't somebody else make it, and then, you know, she took it,
and then took all the credit for it. - Tea!
- The tea is piping. We're getting right into it.
- I know. (laughs) - I feel like the moment
you say the words TikTok, you automatically think Charli,
Addison... - Charli, like, a lot of people
know her, but I think most of her fans are younger.
- No, I disagree. I'm 19. I love her.
Don't tell me I'm too old! - In case you were actually
unfamiliar with who she is, she's a now 16-year-old dancer
from Connecticut, and she recently became
the most followed person on the app. And since TikTok is
so popular with teens, we thought we would kind of
discuss Charli with you guys today. And we thought we would take a look
maybe at some of her other TikToks and just see what you think.
- Okay. - Okay. (giggles)
- All right. Bet, bet. - That girl will make a video
that's like, "Thank you for blank million,"
and then two days later, she'll make another video,
like, "Thank you so much for blank million."
It's so funny! - Yeah!
- ♪ So, I strutted up to the dance floor ♪
- Okay. - Okay!
- Boom. Boom! - She's killing it all the time.
- Hold up. - (raps along) ♪ Do I have
your attention? ♪ - Bap!
- Wow. - ♪ Do I have your attention? ♪
♪ Do I have your attention? ♪
- (claps) - (laughs) She's talented,
but... Lucas's was better. I saw Lucas--
- He did kill that. He did kill that.
- ♪ I did a kick into a split ♪ ♪ And showed him
what he was missing ♪ ♪ Like, do I have your attention? ♪
- TikTok has a bad reputation of people that aren't talented,
where they can't do anything, and all they do is just like,
"Oh, hi. I'm just a TikTok dancer." But as soon as you say that,
Charli actually dances and you see her dance.
You're like, "Oh! Wait a minute. She's actually good!"
- ♪ Take me out to the back of the shed ♪
- Ooh, I love this. - I saw this.
- I hate this trend. - No!
- What? I've never seen this one. What the heck?
- What? - (laughs)
- So yeah, her mom didn't let her do the mugshot trend, so she's like,
"I'm gonna recreate my childhood Halloween costume
as Judge Judy." - My mom didn't let me do it either.
She was like, "You are not doing that stupid mugshot challenge."
- ♪ Wide ♪ - ♪ Wide ♪
- ♪ Need a freak, need a freak, mouth wide ♪
♪ Need a freak, need a freak, mouth wide ♪
♪ Wide, wide ♪ - (laughs)
- It's great that she's getting her family involved.
I love when people do that, like they don't just leave
their family. I love when they actually
get their family involved in videos. - I think it's crazy how her parents
are so famous now too. They're supposedly having
a reality TV show coming out or something,
and I was like, "Huh?! A TikToker?"
- I respect that grind, though. I'm like, you know,
make that money. Be like the Kardashians.
Make an empire. - The next Kardashians. (chuckles)
- Yeah. - Honestly, she's like
our Disney Channel star for the younger kids,
and she's gonna grow up in the public eye. Start it now.
- ♪ So you bagged him ♪ - (raps along) ♪ I'm a savage ♪
- ♪ Classy, bougie, ratchet ♪ - Oh, this is funny.
- (laughs) - Dixie.
Dixie's an icon. - Look at Dixie!
- Dixie. (chuckles) - ♪ I'm a savage ♪
- They're a cute family, though. They're very cute.
- Honestly, I kind of had a thing against her at the beginning.
(laughs) I mean... - I think we all have, like...
- Not gonna lie. I mean, I always judged TikTok
as like, "Oh, this isn't art. This doesn't do anything
for the brain." But I mean, at the same time,
she does have this power to influence people.
She's not spreading any negativity towards the world,
so I think that's the positive. - Right.
- As you can tell from those clips, Charli is known for her dances
and silly videos. But we actually also wanted
to show you the TikTok that she claims is what made her blow up on the app.
Are you guys familiar with what this is?
- Yeah. - Renegade.
- She like duetted some lady. - (Joy) Wanna do a dance challenge,
but don't wanna spend the next week of your life
learning intricate choreography? I made this for you!
Here we go. Step, step, flip, flip. Shoulder, shoulder, hip, hip.
Hands go up, hands go down, move your booty all around.
- (laughs) - That's it?
- That's it. - That's it.
- The talent [inaudible]. - No offense to Charli,
but I did not watch her one bit that entire time,
'cause I was so interested... - Yeah. (laughs) True.
- ...to the other lady. She just had so much energy.
- As of filming this episode, Charli actually has
over 54 million followers on TikTok, but that number is growing every day.
Since gaining a following on there, she's actually started
her own YouTube channel as well. - Which makes sense, yeah.
- So, we have a couple of clips of that to show you.
- A video longer than 15 seconds? (gasps)
- (Charli) Hey, guys! It's Charli, and I'm super excited...
- Oh my god. This is not the intro.
- (Charli) ...YouTube channel. Ow. - (laughs)
- Oh my gosh. - This is giving me Dance Mom vibes.
- (man) That's great.
How do you feel right now? - (Charli) This is so cool!
- ♪ Hitting my whoa ♪ ♪ Throwing them bows ♪
♪ Then I just kick to the left ♪ - That's cool how she's interacting
with her fans, though. I like that.
- Yeah. - I love the professional cameras.
- She charged! She charged money, like a lot.
- Yeah. - ♪ Then I just kick to the right ♪
- She can do that. That's enterprising.
- It was like $110 or something.
It was expensive. - Wait, actually?
- All of the money went to... - All of it.
Charity. - ...charity.
I heard she donated
like $50,000 to a hospital or something, so I was like,
that's really great. I'm glad she's doing that.
- Oh! - Oh my god!
- (James) James Charles here, and welcome back to my YouTube channel.
- Hi, sisters. - (James) TikTok's content is like...
There's far more people that are on TikTok
that are producing really, really good content, because...
- I agree. - ..."Okay, maybe I'll do this
and go viral." - (Charli) I get asked
that question all the time. "Did you wanna be famous?"
I was like... - Listen to how soft she is.
- (Charli) I always thought it was cool to be a YouTuber
and do that stuff. - (James) Right.
- She's so stunning, though! - (Charli) ...show my parents
my new look. - That's where the hype comes from.
- (Charli) I think they're gonna love it.
- Go off on James, though, for the makeup, though.
He did kill that. I'll give him that.
- (chuckles) - I love how you can tell
she's her age. - I love the dog.
- The dog is like, "Ah!" - He want in.
Looks like my dog! - (Heidi) I love it!
Aww, you look so cute. - (Charli) Thank you.
- That's adorable. - The fact that she's 16, crazy.
- Yeah. But she acts her age. - If you follow her on TikTok
or online, you might know that she has got to do
some really cool things, like she danced with J.Lo
before the Super Bowl.
- Crazy. She got to perform on stage
with Bebe Rexha for the Jonas Brothers and more, so we actually just wanted
to show you a few cool things that she's gotten to do
because of TikTok. - That's so cool, though.
- All right, bet. - That's so cool.
- I remember I saw this! - Yeah. I know this.
- I didn't know she was in it. - (T-Pain) This is how I 'mus.
- (laughs) - (Amanda) I 'mus celery.
- (Boomer Esiason) I 'mus pretzels.
(music stops) - (Charli) OK, boomer.
- What? - I did hear about this.
- I remember seeing this. - Didn't she get paid a fat sum
for just saying, "OK, boomer"? - Oh, yeah. Super Bowl commercials
pay a lot, and then she's also speaking too, so that's just
tons of money. - Yeah.
- She got that cultural capital. - (Jimmy) For those that
don't know you or don't know TikTok... - Jimmy Fallon!
- Yeah, I saw this. - (Jimmy) ...what is TikTok?
- Stop. She's literally living such a dream life.
- Yo, that's awesome. - (Charli) ...where there's
not one thing to put it in a category of.
It's 15 to 60-second videos of really doing whatever you want.
- That's a nice description of what it is.
I love how she's such a normal girl,
and it really shows that really anyone can do this, you know what I mean?
- (Jimmy) ...perfect for this app. It's just perfect.
- Yeah. No, dance has been a part of my life since... ever.
- She's like everywhere on TV for some reason.
She was on the Disney sing along thing,
where she did "We're All in This Together," I believe.
And I was just like, "Where are you coming from?
Like, why are you everywhere?" (laughs)
- 100% makes sense, 'cause like I said,
we all know who she is. It's like you might as well
also put her on shows as well, so it's like there's gonna be a chance
where she's gonna end up probably booking a Netflix film
just because of who she is. - She's a great girl and stuff,
but she's signed with one of the top agencies
in the whole entire world recently, and it was kind of a slap in the face
to actors and models that work their whole entire lives
for stuff like this, and this kind of just got handed
to her, because she got famous off of TikTok.
But she's a great girl. She's profiting off of what she does.
- In the dance community, in the industry,
we usually do not like TikTok dancing.
We will give you a full-on concept video,
and it can get maybe about 2,000 views,
but the moment we give you a 15-second "Savage" TikTok dance,
that gets like 100,000 views. It made me feel like I don't have
to be creative to get views, and that's kind of sad.
- I mean, she's an artist, but I don't think that was
her main intention. She was just having a lot of fun.
But she was utilizing everything that she had around her.
So, I mean, yeah, from a business point of view,
she still works hard in that sense.
- I feel like her using her resources is a talent
within itself. It makes me angry when people say
she doesn't deserve the hype, but, I don't know, like,
the attention, media she's getting, and all the things she's getting,
it's not because she doesn't have no talent.
There's something about her that's drawing people in,
and I don't think people should invalidate that.
- So, as we kind of mentioned, Charli is the biggest person
on this app, and she did so in less than a year.
So, from what you guys have seen and what you guys know about her,
why do you think that she was able to gain such a large following
on the app? - (coughs) Renegade.
- (chuckles) No! I literally have...
I don't know. - I'm just kidding.
- I really-- I just kept seeing her on my "For You" page out of nowhere.
I was literally like, "Who is this girl?"
And I swear, TikTok just kept pushing her on the "For You" page.
- I mean, I think she probably figured out the algorithm
before anyone else had at that point. - (Will) Mm-hmm.
- I'm pretty sure-- like now, people are starting to figure it out,
and people are starting to get more followers
as time goes by. But I mean, she figured it out
before everyone else, so now it's gonna be
extremely difficult for people to catch up to her at this point.
- One thing I think she did was she let people into her life,
so not only was she showing herself and her dancing,
it's her and her friends, her and her boyfriend,
her and her sister. Then she becomes the protagonist
of the Hype House. She really had it all going for her.
- As shown threw Charli, TikTok is an app where anyone
can go viral from teen dancers to makeup artists,
to even random babies. ♪ (upbeat music) ♪
So, for you all, do you think that that's a major draw
to the app? That anyone can kind of become famous,
similar to Charli? - I think that's the main draw.
- (chuckles) Yeah. TikTok is the number one
growing app that you can get followers in
no matter what it is. TikTok is number one.
But I will say, though, is that TikTok also
doesn't transfer over to other social media apps.
- I think TikTok has the best algorithm
out of all the social media apps in terms of promoting new influencers,
and that rags to riches story that anyone can get famous
is really what draws, I think, like, the masses in.
- YouTubers became such a big deal starting a few years ago,
because, I mean, they're like celebrities,
but you understand them, you know? Like, you always see these celebrities
as these gods you can never touch, but then you look at YouTubers
and TikTokers and these social media influencers,
and you're like, "Oh my god. Wait. I could totally do it.
I could do whatever they're doing and make money off of it."
- So, as somebody who's gained a lot of attention from the internet,
Charli's had to deal with a lot of online hate as well
as body shaming, leading to her and her sister Dixie
to partner with UNICEF to speak out against cyberbullying.
So, as teens who have also put themselves out to the internet
and may have had to deal with this, how do you guys deal
with negative comments that are online?
- I get so many comments about me on React, man. It's bad.
So, personally dealing with it, I like the-- favorite button,
the Block button. I like that one.
And always just kind of supporting love and just keep
doing you at the end of the day, 'cause you're gonna have people
that are gonna fight for you. - It's easy to kind of laugh
at the hate comments, especially since you don't see it
face to face, like you're just kind of reading it.
Some people aren't as good as getting used to it,
but I just-- I guess I got lucky. I have thick skin,
and it doesn't really get to me at this point.
- I really appreciated what she said about the body shaming
and that she actually talked about it when she addressed how people
were commenting on her weight, because that was a huge issue.
And I applaud her for standing up to cyberbullying.
- Finally, to bring this back around to Charli,
she just turned 16 and is still a teenager
like you guys. So, from one teen to another,
what advice would you guys give her as she continues to grow her platform
and continue to do new things? - Congratulations on everything
that you have, you know, done and you will be doing in the future.
Just keep doing you at the end of the day.
Just make sure, you know, your family's tight,
your friends are solid, and don't get lost in the fame.
- Don't put yourself in overdrive trying to push out content,
because you're already so successful and you're only 16 years old.
There's so much to experience just as a teen
and just as a normal person. Make sure you don't skip over
those moments in life, because you might regret it
when you're a little bit older. - Personally, I would say
you're successful, and the people that aren't--
that are hating on you, just keep going.
Honestly, you're vibing.
You're doing such a good job in your life. (laughs)
- Hey, guys. It's Will here, and I wanna say, sadly,
that was my last episode to Teens React.
It's been insane. I started off as a fan forever,
then I went on to React to That with Nickelodeon, then Teens React,
and now I'm finally gonna be on Adults React.
So, make sure you guys subscribe to the channel
to see more of your boy. Yes, sir!