Jimmy Fallon responds to the Addison Rae backlash by showcasing creators of viral TikTok dances

TheWrap

The Tonight Show host faced backlash over the past 10 days for having TikTok star Rae demonstrate eight TikTok dances without crediting their mostly Black creators on the March 26 show.  (The Tonight Show's YouTube channel later added credits in the description of the video.) To make amends Monday night in his first show back since that episode, Fallon spent  11 minutes interviewing the creators of those eight TikTok dances. “On our last show before the break, we did a bit with Addison Rae, where she taught me eight viral TikTok Dances,” Fallon said in introducing the segment. “Now we recognize that the creators of those dances deserve to have their own spotlight, so right now, some of the creators will join me to talk about how their dance went viral, and then perform the dance themselves.” The first to be interviewed was 15-year-old Mya Johnson, a co-creator of the dance to Cardi B's "Up" with fellow TikTok star Chris Cotter, who had expressed disappointment of the lack of crediting in media interviews last week. “My mom always tells me, when my time comes, my time comes,” Johnson told Los Angeles magazine last week. “But it was just like, wow, like, when she performed that on the stage, I was like dang, that should have been my time.”