17-year-old TikToker Nessa Barrett who come under fire for dancing to a verse of the Quran
“Oh it’s just Tik Tok”…No it’s never just TikTok. You may mean well, but if it offends the sensibilities or the religious sensitivities of other people- sometimes you have to understand that you may come under fire- and it would be very justified. 17-year-old TikToker Nessa Barrett has recently come under fire for posting a…
“Oh it’s just Tik Tok”…No it’s never just TikTok.
You may mean well, but if it offends the sensibilities or the religious sensitivities of other people- sometimes you have to understand that you may come under fire- and it would be very justified.
17-year-old TikToker Nessa Barrett has recently come under fire for posting a video on TikTok in which she and a friend danced to an audio of a man singing a verse from the Quran.
Barrett has since issued an apology for the video, which she deleted, but many are dissatisfied and continue to flood the comments of her videos with criticism. In her latest TikTok video, Barrett, who has over 6 million followers, turned off the comments.
Barrett explained the situation in a livestream on TikTok, saying that she and her friend had been brainstorming video ideas while she was scrolling on her For You page.
After coming across a video of a man singing, Barrett thought that it would be funny to make a TikTok video dancing to the sound, not realizing that he was singing a verse of the Quran.
Barrett apologized, saying, “My step-siblings, like my step-mom is from Egypt and all that stuff, so… I know that it could have been taken offensively. I just want to apologize for anyone who took it that way and was offended, I think… I’m sorry to anyone that practices that religion.”
Comments on her recent videos call for her cancellation, with one of the most liked on a recent video reading, “my respect to you went” followed by the trending downward graph emoji; a different comment on another recent video simply repeats the hashtag #nessacancelled.
