Ariana Grande Hits Out At TikTok Impersonators

Ariana Grande has said she finds impressions of her on TikTok are 'degrading' to her work.

The singer has previously spoken out about those who scrape their hair into high ponytails and lash on a bit of eyeliner in an attempt to look like her on TikTok, saying that she found it 'bizarre'.

Now she's gone a step further and said she thinks it degrades the value of her work.

On Instagram Stories, Ariana shared a clip from filmmaker Jordan Firstman with the caption 'this is my impression of a meme'. In the clip Jordan tears in to meme-makers, saying: "What if we, like, we took a moment, like a small clip from a movie or a TV show.

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"Something that like, an artist really poured their soul into, and it like, it just took them years to make...What if we took a moment from that, and we kind of like, contextualised it - like, does that make sense?

"And we put a completely arbitrary meaning onto that thing that the artist loves so much? Kind of like, degrading its entire value."

Sharing the video, Ariana wrote: "omg can this please also double as your impression of the pony tail Tik oTk girls who think doing the cat valentine voice and that wearing winged eyeliner and a sweatshirt is doing a good impersonation of me... cause this really how it feels... 'degrading it's entire value' I screamed [sic]".

And one of those impersonators, Paige Niemann who has a whopping six million followers on TikTok, has now responded to the post during a livestream in which she said she was 'not a fan' of the singer anymore.

She told her followers: "I'm used to Ariana shading me, so it's whatever.

"I'm just here to entertain people. It's not how I am in real life. It's kind of why I'm not a fan of her anymore, honestly."

Ariana isn't the first star to hit out against people impersonating her, either.

Earlier this year Billie Eilish begged YouTubers to stop dressing as her to fool fans as it made her 'look bad' and might be safe.

Sharing a screenshot of one YouTuber dressed like her she wrote: "Please stop doing this s***.

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"It is not safe for you and it is not safe for you and it is mean to the people who don't know any better you make me look bad."

She then took it a step further, by zooming in on the YouTuber's outfit and joking: "Also soooo disrespectful that you'd go out pretending to be me wearing THIS."

Topics: Celebrity, US Entertainment

Claire Reid

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