Recently, clips of white women crying and then abruptly stopping, as if to show how easy it is for them to fake crying, have been going viral on TikTo

Why Are White Women Fake Crying on TikTok?

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2021-07-14 00:00:05

Recently, clips of white women crying and then abruptly stopping, as if to show how easy it is for them to fake crying, have been going viral on TikTok. You can trace the roots of this weird trend to the CW show The Vampire Diaries.

Over the past few weeks, people on Twitter have been posting TikToks of Black people reacting to what they call a trend of white women performatively crying. These videos are often made using the "stitch" feature on TikTok which allows a TikTok user to append their own response to the end of another person's video. When you watch these, you usually see a few seconds of a white woman crying, then abruptly stopping, and then the response from the user commenting on it. Many of these videos describe what they're responding to as a trend of white women crying, and they talk about how disturbing it is to see white women be able to switch emotions so quickly.

In their reactions, Black people are saying this trend is disturbing because, historically, white women’s tears have been used to justify the oppression of Black people, especially Black men. White women’s fear has been used to justify violence against and over policing of Black men throughout history. In the case of Emmett Till, a 14 year old black boy who was beaten to death after being accused of whistling at a white woman in 1955, the woman who accused Till of whistling at her later said that her claims were false . TikTok users responding to these clips of white women crying sometimes make reference to Till as they explain why this trend is so upsetting.

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