supermonkeyball

I feel like the new influx of people imitating dances for popularity on social media platforms such as Instagram and Tiktok represents a widespread movement of Talking Androids.  When I think of this, my mind goes to the renegade dance that was highly popularized online by Tiktok. The original dance was made by a fourteen-year-old black girl named Jalaiah Harmon but the version that most people are recording, and sharing is the over simplified or watered-down version of the dance that can be shared. It almost seems like the talking Android to me because I felt the purpose of the talking android is to take away from the impact of the movement of Jes Grew in the story and that's what I feel a lot of people on social media do without realizing it. They “disguise” themselves as people who are going along with the movement or action but end up undermining it. The only key differences are that these people aren’t actively trying to harm the movement and they aren’t black as well.  ...