The D’Amelios Getting Canceled on TikTok Shows Why It’s Hard to Be Famous and Female

Why does the internet continue to hate on teen girls who want to succeed?

Image source: Charli D’Amelio on YouTube

For anyone who hasn’t yet graced TikTok with their presence, I’ll give you a quick synopsis about why this is such a hot-button issue:

• A pair of sisters, the D’Amelios, get famous on budding platform TikTok for their lip-syncs and dances. They are at least part of the reason the app is as successful as it is.
• They have combined yearly earnings of 7 million, at the ages of 16 and 19 years old.
• In a scripted video, they badmouthed their personal chef (yes, they’re really rich) when he serves them snails in a paella
• In the same video, Charli openly stated that it would be nice to get to 100 million followers within a year of hitting one million.
• They are “canceled” by the internet so quickly it was almost like we’d all been waiting for it. This cancelation included death threats.

The sequence of events is bizarre to me because all of the D’Amelio’s detractors hate them for…. being famous? For being too popular on TikTok? For being too dramatic on their videos? Many of the comments are about the chef incident, talking about the…