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Wilson has served as inspiration for younger Black dancers and creators on TikTok and says she’s working on her skills and has more dances moves to give in the future.

“Expect me to better my skills and, of course, create even more viral dances. I’m not stopping at one,” Wilson said. “I’m just, slowly get in the feel of how the app is now. Cause it was completely different two years ago. You know, everything changes. So I gotta find the style of it now and everything, and I just have to get on it.”

“I would take older songs over newer songs right now because artists aren’t dropping any new music much,” she continued. “I feel like even if the song on that album wasn’t made to be the favorite, you could still work with the other songs and make them become something, you know? I feel like that’s what I did with ‘Savage’ because I don’t think that was the main song on her album; It was just an extra song.”

In June, Black TikTok creators went on strike and stopped dancing to popular songs to stand against the app and the lack of credit for creating viral dance challenges. Back creators are notably often overlooked while other (white) TikTokers have made millions posting viral dance moves on the platform—using choreography they didn’t create —but still attaining movie, TV, and other brand deals.

Although Wilson has faced adversity throughout this experience, she’s learned that giving up when the fight gets tougher is never an option.

“I continue to keep pushing through no matter what,” she said.

Keara Wilson

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