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Tik Tok Influencers are Stealing Your Jobs, While Doing Half the Work
And you’re helping them.
Haley Sharpe was six years old when she received her first mobile phone. Another young, eager, dancer and performer aspiring to make it in the entertainment industry, Hayley’s parents believed that a cell phone would be keen for her protection.
As a young high schooler in Huntsville, Alabama, Haley dove into the social-media realm around the age of nine-years-old.
First, she became interested in the platform Instagram, and quickly began posting content there. Not gaining much attention, in 2018 Haley turned to the app TikTok a, at the time, new video-sharing social media service, that would allow Haley to showcase her dance skills.
At first, Sharpe found Tik Tok videos to be rather “cheesy”, but after realizing the potential this app had of boosting her career, a year after downloading the app she began posting content.
It was not long until Sharpe began getting praise for her content. Her choreography to Michael Jackson’s hit song “Smooth Criminal”, was relatively popular and got her many likes and new followers on TikTok.
But it wasn’t until one random evening in the Fall of 2019, when Sharpe
decided to upload a dance routine, she choreographed herself to…
