Former Nickelodeon star Lindsey Shaw gets blasted for mocking a viral TikTok from Black creators

Lindsey Shaw, a former Nickelodeon actress from the show Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide, is under fire after mocking a viral TikTok made by Black content creators.

The video in question, which has since been deleted from Shaw’s TikTok, shows her reacting to the TikTok of the creators doing a dance.

But fellow TikTokers got their hands on the video.

TikToker @nonotcandance reposted Shaw’s original video in which she says, “Hey, are you OK? What the f*** is this?” before mockingly emulating the dance move.

Naturally, people were not pleased with the video and took to the comments of the reposted video.

“Dancing? They’re literally dancing. There’s nothing wrong with that,” someone wrote.

“It’s called vibing. But she wouldn’t know, seeing as she couldn’t even do it properly,” another added.

Check out the video here.

Someone else pointed out that Shaw showed support for her former Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide co-star, Devon Werkheiser, for creating his own rendition of the dance.

“For anyone confused: She PRAISED her white friend, Devon, for doing the trend but insulted the black creators,” they said.

Shaw commented under Werkheiser’s post, “Get it!!!!” followed by crying, laughing face emojis.

Lindsey Shaw commenting under Devon Werkheiser’s post doing a viral TikTok dance by Black creators.Photo courtesy of @devonwerkheiser/TikTok

Another TikToker who goes by @rafiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii on the platform also posted a stitched video on his page of Shaw’s original video.

Captioned, “Why Moze got a problem wit dis,” pointing to her character on Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide.

“Woah, Black people having fun, I hope nobody who peaked inNed’s Declassified School Survival Guide dislikes this,” he said.

People had mixed reviews with some wanting to know “why Moze is a hater.” Others didn’t think Shaw’s comments were indicative of race, saying, “I’m with her tho. I don’t understand how that video is a trend. It's not racist to not like a video.”

According to Daily Dot, on Monday morning, Shaw took to her Instagram Stories to address the situation.

“I did not mean anything in any kinda way, I am learning every day as I think everybody is and this kind of hate just needs to evaporate from the planet no matter who it’s directed towards. Crocodile tears? No, dude, like, this is like, my soul out there. If you know anything about what I stand for or what I believe in then you know that it’s not this. I am sorry you were offended,” Shaw said, in part.

People still didn’t buy the apology.

“She mocked black ppl and cried over her hate comments on Instagram lol. “White tears are dangerous yall,” read @notnotcandance’s caption in another video.

Shaw also had a role on Pretty Little Liars, and disabled comments on both her TikTok and Instagram.

Werkheiser, who has a reached a million followers on TikTok, recently posted a video about Shaw’s controversy, saying that the situation is “complicated” and that there are layers of elements that should be taken into consideration.

He begins by discussing the ongoing dilemma of Black creators' original content being stolen and made popular by white creators such as Charlie D’Amelio and many others.

We live in a time where people are standing up for and to that,” Werkheiser said about the content creators.

When it comes to Shaw, he notes that her response to the backlash from people came off defensive.

“If you know Lindsey personally, you know she’s a hater on all sorts of things Black, white, brown, popular, unpopular,” Werkshier said.

“But she’s also got a good heart and is dealing with personal issues and challenges that none of you know anything about,” he continued.

indy100 reached out to Lindsey Shaw for comment.