A Joint Interview With 14-Year-Old Jalaiah Harmon, Who Invented the Most Famous Dance on TikTok, and Her Mom

variety.com:

Meg Zukin For Variety’s Power of Young Hollywood issue, we interviewed TikTok stars about their lives in quarantine.At 14, Jalaiah Harmon created the most viral dance the internet had ever seen.

The only problem? Nobody knew she made it. After a profile in The New York Times, she finally got the credit she deserved. In an interview with Variety, Harmon (and her mom, Stefanie Harmon) discuss how her life has changed and what she’s planning to do next.What happened with Renegade?Jalaiah: I made the dance one day and I asked this girl if she wanted to do it with me as a collab.

Then I sent her my video and she recreated the video, but I found the song off of somebody else’s page. So after that, we both posted the video, made the caption.