Why are the videos of "Crip Walk" on TikTok controversial?

This is the big trend phenomenon of the moment on TikTok. In recent weeks, dozens of videos and tutorials to learn the "Crip Walk" have been posted on the Chinese social network. It is a very particular movement of legs which consists in making Z with the feet, that it is very quickly appropriate the teenagers on the platform. The videos of "Crip Walk" listed under the hashtags and #CripWalk or #Cwalk have thus generated more than 130 million views on TikTok.

Most users perform this dance step, all smiles, on the song Fuck It Up , performed by rapper Kamaiyah and rapper YG. But most of them do not know where this dance step comes from, or what it really means.

me trying to do the crip walk on tiktok https://t.co/UGeCmwpzND

A macabre ritual

Far from the playful videos posted on the music platform, the “Crip Walk” is in fact a dance step created in the 1970s by members of the Crips, a gang in Los Angeles considered to be one of the most violent in the United States. United. It was a ritual observed by the members of this gang after having murdered or "beaten" a member of the Bloods, the opposing gang.

According to the online dictionary Urban Dictionary , this dance "can only be performed by members of the Crips". "Keep in mind that the Crips do not like to do their dance, they can harm you", he is also mentioned.

Warning videos

Several warning videos have been published in recent weeks by Internet users who explain that performing this dance movement is not trivial. "Hi white kids, I love you […] but it worries me that you are doing the Crip Walk without really knowing what it is all about. If you did it in front of real Crips, gang members, they would kill you, ”warned one of them on TitTok.

"The ignorance on the Internet has reached its peak, we now have white teens making tutorial videos of Crip Walk," also reacted a Twitter user. "It's a gang!" Do you really want to get shot at a party in Los Angeles because you learned this dance? "

Tiktok got Crip Walk tutorials now yall. Just sayin🤷🏽‍♂️😭 pic.twitter.com/vCH2J5ojKP

It is not the first time that the “Crip Walk” has been controversial. Tennis player Serena Williams found herself in the middle of a scandal in August 2012 for having sketched this footwork. At the end of a victorious match during the Olympic Games, she had engaged in a "Crip Walk", a scene at the time very strongly criticized because referring to the very violent American gang of Crips.

Pssst ..... he means cuz she's black and did the “crip” walk. * gasp * * clutches pearls * pic.twitter.com/tTaRzrcy9C

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