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<ul class="summary-list"><li>A popular <keyword id="6762469" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="TikTok">TikTok</keyword> creator claimed the platform favored white creators over people of color in a recent livestream. </li><li>"There are such beautiful, colored creators that have a huge ass following that not half of TikTok people know about. I'm so confused, why not? Why do they keep on pushing the same people, the same-looking people... It literally looks like duplicates of the same people," Perkins, 16, said. </li><li>Perkins' comments came after black TikTok creators started a protest movement on Tuesday to boost nonwhite users on the platform. </li><li>TikTok has faced criticism over its mysterious algorithm that many say gives white users a leg up on the platform, and <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/laurenstrapagiel/tiktok-algorithim-racial-bias">exaggerates</a> racial preferences. In March, <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-users-discrimination/">The Intercept</a> published internal TikTok documents that seemingly encouraged moderators to favor wealthy, beautiful, and 'normal' people.</li></ul>In a recent livestream, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/devenityperkins/">Devenity Perkins</a>, a singer, actor, and influencer, slammed TikTok for showing "duplicates of the same people" and favoring white creators over people of color. "There are such beautiful, colored creators that have a huge ass following that not half of TikTok people know about. I'm so confused, why not? Why do they keep on pushing the same people, the same-looking people... It literally looks like duplicates of the same people," Perkins said, according to a screen recording viewed by Insider. "Add some f--king color on this app, we want to see diversity," Perkins, 16, added. "How the f--k does TikTok feel when they keep on pushing a white girl with blonde hair and blue eyes, and there's colored, young girls on this app that are seeing that as the ideal girl, as the dream girl." Perkins' comments came soon after the #ImBlackMovement on Tuesday, which flooded the app with videos of people of color in a protest against the platform's perceived lack of diversity. Many black creators and allies changed their profile pictures to an image of a raised black fist, the symbol of the Black Power movement. To participate in the protest, TikTok users only liked and commented on videos from people of color for the day in an effort to bring more awareness to nonwhite creators and fill the For You Page with videos of black TikTokers. The protest also used the <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/blackvoicesheard">hashtag #BlackVoicesHeard,</a> which has 42 million views as of Thursday morning. The founder of Black Lives Matter Utah, Lex Scott, founded the protest because "black creators are being silenced on TikTok and other social media platforms and I am fed up," <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/19/us/tiktok-black-lives-matter-trnd/index.html">she told CNN</a>.In a TikTok promoting the protest, Iman, @theemuse, said she hoped the movement would "stop the censorship of black people on this app." <h2>TikTok has <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-censorship-users-deemed-ugly-overweight-or-disabled-2020-3">faced criticism over its mysterious algorithm,</a> which some creators say favors certain users over others.</h2>In a memo <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-users-discrimination/">obtained by The Intercept in March</a>, the platform appeared to direct moderators to hide videos that were less "attractive.""If the character's appearance or the shooting environment is not good, the video will be much less attractive," the policy said, according to The Intercept. The policy made no mention of <keyword id="15024" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Race">race</keyword>, but did call out "ugly facial looks," "facial deformities," "abnormal body shape," and weight as aspects to be looked out for. Still, some creators say it appears the platform recommends more content from white creators. Issues of race have come up repeatedly on the app, most notably when Charli D'Amelio, the most-followed person on the platform, popularized the "Renegade" dance and was largely viewed as its creator. While D'Amelio certainly made the dance into the megapopular hit it has become, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/style/the-original-renegade.html">Jalaiah Harmon, who is black, choreographed the original dance</a>. That's a trend that has been an important aspect of TikTok <keyword id="24504" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="culture">culture</keyword> in the last year. But the onus is not completely on the app — creators are responsible for whether or not they choose to give credit where credit is due, and D'Amelio has tried to promote Harmon and her page since discovering she had choreographed the "Renegade." As Taylor Lorenz of The New York Times wrote in February, TikTok "has become synonymous with dance culture. Yet many of its most popular dances, including the Renegade, Holy Moly Donut Shop, the Mmmxneil and Cookie Shop have come from young black creators on myriad smaller apps." Representatives for Perkins and TikTok could not immediately be reached for comment. <ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-censorship-users-deemed-ugly-overweight-or-disabled-2020-3">TikTok memo directed censorship of users deemed ugly, overweight, or disabled, and banned users for livestreams that criticized governments</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/tiktok-dances-renegade-say-so-and-more-19-top-2020-3">19 of the most viral dances on TikTok, from the 'renegade' to 'TOES'</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-slime-influencer-makes-thousand-dollar-sales-addison-rae-review-2020-5">A 15-year-old 'slime' influencer saw his sales and follower count soar after sending TikTok star Addison Rae samples of his homemade products</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/tiktok-star-loren-gray-video-about-past-sexual-assault-2020-5">TikTok star Loren Gray opened up about being sexually assaulted at age 12 after she learned someone knew about the situation: 'There is a light at the end of the tunnel'</a></li></ul>Read the original article on <a href="https://www.insider.com/tiktok-devenity-perkins-slams-lack-diversity-nonwhite-black-creators-2020-5">Insider</a>

A popular influencer slammed TikTok, criticizing the app for highlighting 'duplicates of the same people' and not fostering a diverse culture

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Celebrities <keyword id="131478" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Brody-Jenner">Brody Jenner</keyword> and <keyword id="446674" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Scott-Disick">Scott Disick</keyword>, as well as influencer Danielle Cohn, are facing criticism on social media after promoting an app that's supposed to morph the appearance of your face to match certain races.</li><li>Jenner and Cohn both edited their faces to appear Black. </li><li>It was not immediately clear whether Jenner, Disick, or Cohn were paid for their promotions. </li></ul>Scott Disick, Brody Jenner, and influencer Danielle Cohn posted promotions for an app that morphed the appearance of their faces to make them appear as if they were different races.The app supposedly uses artificial intelligence to adjust the user's face to show how one would look if you were "born on a different continent," Gradient's website says, though the app's primary functionality appears to be the ability to morph skin color and face shape. Several of the locations offered are countries, rather than continents, including Brazil and India. In the filter example shown on the website, the model appears to be caucasian, with <keyword id="6751660" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="filters">filters</keyword> for "Asia," "Brazil," and "India" adjusting her skin color and facial features.<div type="image" title="Screen Shot 2020 09 23 at 10.41.49 AM" height="548" width="1145" msid="78283048" hostid="261"></div>Disick, Jenner, and Cohn are all white. Many social media users replied with criticism and questioned the app's intentions. Jenner and Cohn both used filters to make them look Black, which some social media critics said was a form of <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-evolution-digital-blackface/">digital blackface</a>, or the use of social media by non-Black people to associate oneself with Blackness and Black <keyword id="24504" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="culture">culture</keyword>. Jenner used the app to show his face adjusted by filters for Africa, Asia, and India. "You need to try this new feature in the gradient app," he said on Tuesday. Disick's tweet showed his face adjusted by filters for Europe, Asia, and India, and he asked, "Which one is better?" Cohn's collaboration with Gradient, which she posted on TikTok on Tuesday, drew many negative comments. "This doesn't sit right with me," one user replied. TikToker Devenity Perkins, who is Black, commented on an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CFdEQshnXkq/">Instagram post about Cohn's video,</a> writing that "whoever made the app is a weirdo." It was not immediately clear whether Jenner, Disick, or Cohn were paid for their promotions. Insider has reached out to Gradient for comment. <ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/danielle-cohn-age-youtube-instagram-tiktok-drama-teen-bio-instagram-2020-7">Teen influencer Danielle Cohn reignited speculation about her real age when she suggested she was 14 on Instagram. Here's how the social media star rose to prominence online.</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/brody-jenner-khloe-kardashian-tristan-thompson-jordyn-woods-cheating-reports-2019-2">Brody Jenner said that Khloe Kardashian 'probably should have left' Tristan Thompson after the first round of cheating reports</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-search-for-filters-on-instagram">How to search for filters for your Instagram story and save them to your camera</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/instagram-artists-black-lives-matter-2020-6">Meet the artists behind the powerful Black Lives Matter artwork being shared across social media</a></li></ul>

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