A Bunch Of Creators Were Snubbed From The 2024 TikTok Awards ...

Last night, content creators from Australia and beyond found their way to Sydney for the 2024 TikTok Awards. It was a wonderful night filled with glitz, glamour and jokes that only chronically online people would understand. However, while many people were on a high celebrating their online achievements, there were also a heap of creators sitting at home bummed out that they didn’t receive an invite to TikTok’s night of nights.

The awards — which were held at Sydney’s Hordern Pavillion on Wednesday — are all about celebrating all types of people and content that float around our FYP. Sadly for some creators, that vision did not include them attending the awards.

One prominent TikToker who aired her frustration was Ellie Peach, a nurse with over 130,000 followers on the platform.

“Tonight I am going to the emergency department to work. I was not invited to the TikTok Awards,” Ellie began in a video.

“I know that there’s not a healthcare category or anything like that but I was not invited. Honestly, I am upset about it.”

In the video, Ellie said that last year she thought it was because she was still building her audience but this time around, she felt like she’d done enough to receive an invite. She also noted that another male nursing creator was invited. Although she didn’t specify who it was, it seems to be Hamish Briggs, a creator with 98,000 followers on TikTok.

“At the end of the day, I wanted to represent nursing in a creator field at a big event like this as a woman because we are a female-dominated industry. I think it’s important that there are women in these spaces,” Ellie explained.

Other healthcare workers including Dr Katie (who has more 314,000 followers on TikTok) and Dr Michael (453,800 followers) shared in the disappointment.

Although Dr Michael received an invite last year, he said he missed out this time and stressed that “when it comes to this sort of stuff it’s who you know, not who you are.”

After coming across Ellie’s video on her FYP, Australia’s media princess Abbie Chatfield weighed in on the issue with a kindhearted response.

“Queen, as someone who has been to every single awards night in this country, let me tell you, you’re missing out on nothing,” the FBoy Island host explained.

“Imagine you go to a different school’s graduation ceremony, that’s the energy it gives.”

Although she noted that feeling excluded from the event was super valid, she reminded Ellie that in reality, these awards nights aren’t as fun as they appear on social media.

“When you’re not at the awards tonight, don’t sit there thinking that everyone is having this amazing time,” she said.

“There is this huge gap in between the expectation of what I know and how that would be, and what the reality is.”

PEDESTRIAN.TV has reached out to TikTok and TikTok Awards organisers to find out. Stay tuned (hopefully).