JoJo Siwa Celebrates Beating Out Taylor Swift, Katy Perry & Ariana Grande for Most YouTube Dislikes
JoJo Siwa is finding small victories wherever she can. In a new TikTok posted Thursday, the 21-year-old aspiring pop star celebrated beating out top artists such as Taylor Swift, Katy Perry and Ariana Grande in one not-so-triumphant category: this year’s most dislikes on a female artist’s music video (so far).
In the clip, Siwa — sporting a characteristically loud outfit that includes a bedazzled construction vest — energetically reads out a list of 2024’s least-loved visuals from female stars. According to her numbers, which are corroborated by an online dislike viewer, Grande attracted 290,000 thumbs-downs for her Billboard Hot 100-topping “Yes, And?,” while Perry won second runner-up with 330,000 on her new single “Woman’s World.” (The Dr. Luke-produced track has since shot up to an estimated 550,318 dislikes as of press time.)
Increasing her volume, the Dance Moms alum then announced that Swift’s “Fortnight” had attracted 350,000 dislikes since topping the Hot 100 in May. And then…
“Your No. 1 first place overall goes to…,” Siwa tells the camera, practically screaming as she draws out the faux suspense. “‘Karma,’ JoJo Siwa, with an astonishing, record-breaking 3.1 million dislikes!”
“I am the only person that can say I beat Taylor Swift on a list of something,” she adds, shutting her laptop and shrugging. “I’ll take it.”
“WHAT A DAY TO CELEBRATE. KARMA BROKE A RECORD. 900% MORE THAN 2ND PLACE. A WIN IS A WIN,” Siwa captioned the clip.
The So You Think You Can Dance coach’s choice to find a silver lining comes about three months after she dropped her polarizing single “Karma,” which has since earned countless memes and even a Saturday Night Live sketch. The track appears on her new EP Guilty Pleasure, which dropped July 12.
“I think I just want to make it more clear that gay pop is a genre,” she told TMZ of her new musical era in April. “I am not the inventor of gay pop, for sure not. But I do want to be a piece of making it bigger than it already is. I Want to bring more attention to it.”
Watch Siwa’s TikTok below.
Hannah Dailey
Billboard
