Students Unbraiding Teacher's Hair Controversy

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Category: Event Status: Submission Year: 2024 Origin: United States Region: United States

Type: Controversy,

Tags: unbraiding teachers hair, students unbraiding teachers hair in class, black twitter, tiktok, fired, teacher fired after tiktok, reddit, unbraiding teacher's hair reddit, students unbraiding teachers hair reddit, thilluminator, thilluminatin1,

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Sincerely Nelle @TanelleIrene. Mod Black parents tap in! Would you be okay with your daughter unbraiding her teacher's hair? Is this appropriate? 2:15 ་་༢༌ ل ob r TikTok @thilluminatin1 BW I'ne 8:33 AM ⚫ May 8, 2024 50.4M Views

Sovereign @sauvamemte Why didn't he ask the boys to help him? The optics of this are reinforcing servitude in young girls like why are you using young girls labor to do something that would probably take you 45 minutes at home? Your stylist would've taken your hair down this is inappropriate. Black Twitter Sincerely Nelle @TanelleIrene May 8 Black parents tap in! Would you be okay with your daughter unbraiding her teacher's hair? Is this appropriate? 1:29 5:39 PM - May 8, 2024 678.4K Views J Tik Tok @thilluminatin wwwwwwwww

Dylan Ali @dylanali_ I know he's sick bc he uploaded this thinking it would get reposted on a wholesome black content page but instead became the subject of hypoghettical scenarios and discourse Black Twitter Sincerely Nelle @TanelleIrene • May 8 Black parents tap in! Would you be okay with your daughter unbraiding her teacher's hair? Is this appropriate? 2:15 TikTok thilluminatim VITUTIO • • 6:57 PM ⚫ May 8, 2024 539.6K Views wwwwwwww

lady_v9923 This is my daughter teacher. He is the most love teacher at this school. Don't over- sexualized or overthinking this video. He isn't anything wrong. I know for a fact is this was a female teacher nobody would be saying anything. He is a great teacher and actually love those students. He is a passionate teacher. 4d 55,509 likes Reply View replies (714)

destinywhet Please! This is my daughter teacher! He is VERY PHENOMENAL !! A huge role model and leader to our school! The way yall over sexualize everything is VERY sickening!! Continue being who you are! 4d 23,311 likes Reply View replies (323)

767 Media & Entertainment Protect Black Girls. They don't exist to serve or be assistants. i.redd.it submitted 4 days ago by SurewhynotAZ 363 comments share save hide report crosspost hide all child comments Q V о ☑ theshaderoom @indiaroyaltyy No & hell no. I will not be explaining further. Black Twitter Sincerely Nelle @TanelleIrene 12h Mod Black parents tap in! Would you be okay with your daughter unbraiding her teacher's hair? Is this appropriate? Σ

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Category: Event Status: Submission Year: 2024 Origin: United States Region: United States

Type: Controversy,

Overview

Students Unbraiding Teacher's Hair Controversy refers to discussions and jokes about a viral video showing TikToker and teacher @thilluminatin1 getting his hair unbraided by a group of female students in class as he works on his computer. The video was shared by the male teacher, eventually resulting in his firing. These events led to discussions on Black Twitter about whether the teacher's actions were appropriate or not, with some calling the unbraiding a way for him to bond with his students and others criticizing him for extracting unpaid labor from female students during school hours.

Background

On May 7th, 2024, TikToker^[1] @thilluminatin1 posted a video showing him working on his laptop in the classroom as a group of female students unbraid and detangle his hair. The video was captioned, "Students don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. Teaching is a work of heart," and gathered over 6 million views and 770,000 likes in a week (seen below).

@thilluminatin1 Students don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. Teaching is a work of heart. Comment your thoughts #teacher #teachersoftiktok #teacherproblems #millenialsoftiktok #middleschool ♬ Chopin Nocturne No.2 Op.9-2(1391533) – 314P

Online Reactions

On May 8th, 2024, X^[2] user @TanelleIrene reposted the video with the caption, "Black parents tap in! Would you be okay with your daughter unbraiding her teacher’s hair? Is this appropriate?" The post was quoted by various X users weighing in with their opinions on the issue.

On May 8th, X^[3] user @xxdbreezyxx quoted the post writing, "I’m watching this and didn’t even realize that’s my little sister in the background. She said that he’s her favorite teacher but today they were all forced to write statements and he may get fired…" and gathering over 90,000 likes in five days (seen below, left).

On the same day, X^[4] user @Jo2timess posted various videos of female teachers having their hair braided and dyed by their students, gathering over 20,000 likes in five days (seen below, right).

dee breezy @xxdbreezyxx I'm watching this and didn't even realize that's my little sister in the background. She said that he's her favorite teacher but today they were all forced to write statements and he may get fired... Black Twitter Sincerely Nelle @TanelleIrene • May 8 Black parents tap in! Would you be okay with your daughter unbraiding her teacher's hair? Is this appropriate? 2:08 8:58 PM May 8, 2024 5.9M Views Tik Tok @thilluminatin

Fat Mama Jo@Jo2timess • May 8, 2024 So what's actually the problem? Because it's not that they're doing his hair and once y'all figure it out I want that to be the topic of discussion. II 0:00 TikTok @ms.zigrang よ Tik Tok 0:40 "Students that help you take down your hair va TikTak Jamb ▶0:58 0:44 Letting my student do my hair pt 3 Sincerely Nelle @TanelleIrene • May 8 館 Black parents tap in! Would you be okay with your daughter unbraiding her teacher's hair? Is this appropriate? 2:20

On May 9th, 2024, the video was discussed on the subreddit /r/blackladies^[6] and the Instagram page @theshaderoom, the latter receiving replies from people claiming to be the parents of the girls in the video (seen below).^[7]

On May 10th, 2024, the teacher posted a video to his TikTok,^[5] saying that he was fired from his job. The video gathered over 1 million plays and 60,000 likes in two days (seen below).