#BlackGirlFollowTrain provides community for Black women on TikTok

Every time Dina Michele would scroll on TikTok, her feed simply did not reflect like the community around her, she said.

Every time Dina Michele would scroll on TikTok, her feed simply did not reflect like the community around her, she said. The 27-year-old, known as @craftyheauxx on TikTok, took it upon herself to change that and create a sense of community for Black women on the platform.  

Michele started a movement on TikTok where Black women follow each other, give advice and support each other’s small businesses and overall content using the hashtag #BlackGirlFollowTrain. It’s given many Black women across the platform a chance to connect and network: As of Tuesday more than 321 million views of videos were using the hashtag since early last year. 

When Michele posted her video with the sound of “this one is for the Black girls. If you’re a woman and you’re Black, I’m following back,” she began to see many other videos using the same sound under the same hashtag #BlackGirlFollowTrain, bringing content under that hashtag to more people’s feeds. 

Dina Michele. J.P. Poland“I started getting women telling me they got their first sales on their business from using the sound or they’re actually making friends and community,” Michele said. “People were able to network and it was really humbling to see that something I created brought my community of Black women together.” 

Michele, who is also a photographer and jewelry designer, created the first video in February 2022 and has seen her account climb from 110 followers to more than 51,000. In November, she created another video in which she really started to see it become a trend. 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/blackgirlfollowtrain-provides-community-black-women-tiktok-rcna65551


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