Since Dance Moms was a very successful reality show in its prime, it made many people famous. Since then, Dance Moms fans have remained interested in headlines about Christi Lukasiak’s DUI and JoJo Siwa’s spending sprees. Similarly, many former viewers have followed if Abby Lee Miller has a relationship with her former students, including JoJo Siwa, who defended the controversial reality star.
TikTok users can follow things like Millie Bobby Brown’s fitness routine, plans for The Montana Boyz, and what was going on with Miley Cyrus’ voice. Similarly, TikTok users have used the app to learn the dark truth about Dance Moms thanks to a viral trend.
Christi Lukasiak’s Viral TikTok Post Exposed How Disturbing Dance Moms Was
After Dance Moms premiered on Lifetime in 2011, it became a sensation largely because many viewers were astonished by what they saw. Even though it was always obvious that what happened on Dance Moms was disturbing, more messed up details about the show have continued to come out over the years.
When January 2025 started, nobody could have predicted that it would be a big month for exposing what Dance Moms really was like. Despite that, a social media trend wound up providing the show’s former friends with new perspectives on how dark the show really was.
To the surprise of most observers, many former Dance Moms stars exposed that show in response to a TikTok trend.
In January 2025, there was a TikTok trend that called for users to post a photo alongside a caption. That caption would start with the words “You’re so funny” in quotes, followed by a response that begins with “Thanks” before it revealed a dark fact.
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On January 23rd, 2025, Christi Lukasiak posted on TikTok with her own version of the trend.
“‘You’re so funny.’ Thanks, I used to watch my 9 year old get tortured by an adult woman and couldn’t fight with her about it because, the more I fought, the worse she was to my daughter. And it was my JOB to fight.”
Even though it has long been obvious that Dance Moms was a messed up show, Christi’s TikTok post still exposed dark truths about Abby Lee Miller’s reality show.
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There were two main ways that Christi’s post revealed how disturbing Dance Moms was. The first of those two ways was what Christi’s post said about the disturbing ways that Dance Moms‘ former child stars were treated.
In May 2024, the Dance Moms YouTube channel uploaded a compilation of the show’s biggest meltdowns. While there are loads of compilations like based on the Real Housewives franchise, creating one dedicated to Dance Moms stars is disturbing. After all, a compilation like that is full of clips of children being traumatized.
When viewers watched the show Dance Moms, it was easy for them to feel like the events were dramatized to make better TV. However, with Christi claiming that what happened to her daughter was “torture”, that makes it seem clear that the show was even more traumatizing than it seemed.
The other dark truth about what Christi’s post revealed is about the potential reasons why Christi didn’t take her daughter away from Dance Moms.
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- Competitions Were Re-Filmed
- Mackenzie Ziegler Didn’t Want To Dance
- Why Chloe Left The Show
- It Wasn’t Supposed To Be A Reality Show
- How The Girls Went To School
- Abby Was Even Worse Off Camera
- The Girls Were Stressed
- They Learned The Dances Quickly
- The Pyramid Took Forever
- The Drama Was Mostly Staged
Based on Christi’s own post, she believed that her daughter was being “tortured” and felt like she couldn’t change that. With that in mind, outsiders should keep in mind that they can’t know what motivated her to keep her daughter on Dance Moms. After all, according to Christi’s TikTok activity, there may be some dark reasons that Christi kept her daughter on Dance Moms.
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In the comment section of her TikTok post, Christi hinted at what may have kept her tied to Dance Moms. After being called out in a comment on her post for keeping her daughter in an abusive situation, Christi implied that was a disturbing motivation for her past decisions.
It’s funny how threats can really impact the choice YOU make. Walk a mile in our shoes and let’s see what choices YOU make
Despite what Christi wrote on TikTok hinting at her past motivation, there were still many angry responses to her post.
Since many of the people behind those comments assumed Christi did it for fame and money, it is important to note that she wasn’t Dance Moms’ only star. Instead, there were several more former Dance Moms stars who also took part in the same TikTok trend.
What Dance Moms’ Other Stars Wrote On TikTok As Part Of The Viral Trend
On January 23rd, 2025, a fan on the r/dancemoms subreddit uploaded a post bringing together the recent social media activity of the show’s former stars. That post made it clear that several more former Dance Mom stars also took part in the “‘You’re so funny/Thanks” TikTok trend.
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Another former Dance Moms mom who took part in the trend was Holly Hatcher-Frazier. However, unlike Christi’s version, Holly’s iteration of the TikTok trend was a lot less serious.
“‘You’re so funny.’ Thanks! I am still waiting for empty chair to do a solo.”
Sadly, however, several of Dance Moms’ former child stars also took part in the trend and gave windows into how horribly they were treated on the show.
The former Dance Moms child stars revealed things like they didn’t cry for years because they were afraid of being yelled at and that they were judged for their stomachs. Other former Dance Moms child stars pointed out how awful it was that they were ranked against their friends on a weekly basis and that they had panic attacks as kids.
