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I'll preface this by saying I don't have a tiktok account.
I used to think tiktok dances were cringe based on a knee jerk reaction. But now I'm just glad people are dancing. People in America have been so discouraged from dancing. We have been made to feel ashamed of dancing. Remember how they treated disco? I'm just glad anyone is dancing in 2024.
Well, well, well... Looks like we've got ourselves a regular Ren McCormack here, fellas.
Next thing you know, they'll be hosting secret dance parties in a barn on the outskirts of town.
You watch yourself, bub: you're only 6 degrees away from being in some serious trouble!
Footloose 2024 Premise:
A 2X SOTY named Tyshawn Jones has moved from NYC to a small town in Montana where TikTok dancing has become illegal. This is due to the alt right blaming TikTok kids for getting “too funky” in the Nation’s Capital on January 6 and attempting to overthrow the government with the assistance of China, liberalism, socialism, communism, and rap music.
At first Tyshawn has a hard time fitting in but after he defiantly posts a TikTok video of himself dancing and nollie flipping over trash cans the video goes viral and he wins the admiration and respect of the local kids.
Two of Tyshawn’s new friends are Whokid (who Tyshawn teaches to dance) and Ariel (the daughter of the reverend Chuck Baldwin). The reverend fears that his impressionable daughter will dance at a college campus and start protesting the genocide in Palestine and become a China liberal socialist communist TikTokker or something.
Anyways, Ariel, Whokid, and Tyshawn organize an event to be held just past the state line at a water plant where they’ll live stream a synchronized dance routine. The movie culminates with Tyshawn kickflipping the water tower gap followed by the kids doing the “say so” dance and Michael Burnett giving him a third SOTY trophy.