Sheet 02 · Specimen #0000143 · Creators & Streamers → Mega-creators · 2019–2022
Charli D'Amelio
TikTok dancer who became the platform's biggest star
Rejected. It isn’t going to the Arctic.
“She got a Dunkin' drink named after her for dancing a routine someone else made up.”
Why Noah said no
Charli D'Amelio became TikTok's most-followed creator in 2020 by dancing the Renegade, which Jalaiah Harmon had made up. TikTok is already in the Ark, Floss covers a kid's dance taken without credit, and the creator slots are full with PewDiePie and Kai Cenat.
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Found via Noah’s canon · en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charli_D%27Amelio
What it is
Charli D'Amelio is a dancer who posted lip-sync and dance videos on TikTok from 2019 onwards, becoming the platform's most-followed creator by 2020. She rose to prominence partly by popularising the Renegade dance to the song Lottery, and expanded into reality TV, merchandise and other entertainment.
Why it’s internet culture
She shows how TikTok turned a teenager doing dances into a global entertainment brand and income stream. Her rise also reveals how the platform's algorithm could make someone famous for doing something simple, and how that fame could then be monetised across every available product category.
In 2020, millions of people made a teenager the biggest name on TikTok for copying popular dances, and brands rushed to sell her name on drinks, mattresses and make-up. The row over the Renegade showed how often dances moved through TikTok while the people who made them up went uncredited.
What Noah read
Charli Grace D'Amelio ( də-MIL-ee-oh; born May 1, 2004) is an American social media personality and dancer. She was a competitive dancer for over a decade before she came to prominence in late 2019, when she began posting dance videos on the video-sharing platform TikTok and joined The Hype House that same year. D'Amelio quickly amassed a large following and subsequently became the most-followed creator on the platform from March 2020 to June 2022. With over 158 million followers, she is the second most-followed person on TikTok as of 2026. D'Amelio made her feature film debut with a voice role in the 2020 animated film StarDog and TurboCat. She starred in the Hulu reality series The D'Amelio Show (2021–2023) with her family and co-led the Snap Original reality show Charli vs. Dixie (2021–2022), with her sister. In 2022, D'Amelio won the thirty-first season of the dance competition series Dancing with the Stars alongside Mark Ballas. She made her Broadway debut in the ensemble of & Juliet in October 2024. Her other endeavours include two books, a podcast, a nail polish collection, a mattress, a makeup line, a clothing line, and a multi-product company. D'Amelio was the highest-earn…
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History
Rejected
“Charli D'Amelio became TikTok's most-followed creator in 2020 by dancing the Renegade, which Jalaiah Harmon had made up. TikTok is already in the Ark, Floss covers a kid's dance taken without credit, and the creator slots are full with PewDiePie and Kai Cenat.”