JoJo Siwa Doesn’t Know She’s the Butt of the Joke
It’s always a little sad when someone doesn’t understand that everyone’s laughing at them, not with them. You kind of want to tell them about the behind-the-scenes giggles, but then if you do tell them, you have to see the sad look reach across their eyes. The final option is to simply go along with the crowd, performing the scandalous act of giggling in secrecy, all at someone else’s expense. That’s what I—along with most of the world—have chosen to do with JoJo Siwa as she enters this forced goth-bad-girl era of her singing career.
Siwa, who has recently reinvented her rainbow persona to be darker, grittier, and “gay pop,” seems to have no idea that the world has made her the butt of the joke. Siwa’s “Karma” music video, released April 4, is perhaps the most unsettling video released in 2024. It also features Siwa animatedly humping her dance partner as vigorously as a dog thrusts his hips against a stranger’s shin. But at least when the dog does it, it’s not wearing a webbed jumpsuit with fishnets and leather, something Spider-Man might purchase if he landed on a sex shop somewhere in Queens.
Since the video’s release, folks all over the internet have been recreating the dance in particular, as well as making other Siwa moments go viral. The dance trend includes bigger names, too; Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts Tour dancers have recreated Siwa’s zombie-like dance moves, while just last Saturday, Billie Eilish reenacted Siwa’s dance moves at a Coachella afterparty.