Dolly Parton Fans Duped As More Than 1M People Like Fake TikTok Account

Dolly Parton fans have been left outraged after a TikTok account apparently belonging to the country legend was banned soon after arriving.

In a video shared on the video-sharing platform on Sunday, the "Jolene" singer, 75, was seen dressed in a colorful ensemble as she addressed her fans.

"Why hello, I guess I'm on TikTok!" Parton was seen saying. "I just dropped in to say everything's gonna be OK, you keep the faith."

The star then launched into song, tunefully informing her incoming followers: "If I can do it, so can you... I believe in you."

Within hours of the video being uploaded, fans across social media expressed their excitement as @itsdollyparton amassed 680,000 followers in just a day, and the clip garnered close to 1 million likes, according to People.

Fans' joy soon turned to outrage when the account disappeared just as suddenly as it had arrived, with a message stating that the profile had violated TikTok's terms and conditions.

Taking to Twitter en masse, fans of Parton lashed out at TikTok for their apparent mistreatment of the beloved singing superstar.

However, it has now emerged that the account in question was actually fake, with an imposter making it seem as though the star had joined TikTok, a spokesperson for Parton told Today.

The representative explained that an unverified user had taken an old video from Parton's Imagination Library website and "doctored it."

A spokesperson for TikTok further confirmed to Newsweek that the video in question had been taken down for violating its community guidelines on impersonation.

Despite currently lacking an authentic TikTok account, Parton is quite the social media savvy star, with 5.2 million followers on Twitter and 4.4 million on Instagram.

She even had a hand in starting a viral meme trend in January 2020, when she shared four pictures of herself on Instagram, labeled for different social media platforms.

The photo of Parton assigned to professional platform LinkedIn showed the star looking smart with a scarf around her neck, while her Facebook snap showed her looking relaxed in a Christmas sweater.

Instagram Parton was shown in her younger days in a #throwbackthursday-style black-and-white photo as she posed with a guitar, while Parton's Tinder choice was an image of her dressed as a Playboy bunny.

Captioning the upload, Parton wrote: "Get you a woman who can do it all [winking emoji]," prompting a wave of social media users to follow suit with their own photos.

While she enjoys the fun side of social media, Parton has also shared her awareness of the pitfalls of young people using such platforms.

"I worry about that a lot, because everybody can't have a movie star's body, and I worry about young girls and their image and it's causing a lot of problems," she told BBC show Newsnight in a 2019 interview.

"There's a lot of suicide, a lot of depression, a lot of kids getting on drugs and alcohol, because they think they have to measure up to who the stars are," she went on. "But what are you gonna do? Everybody has their own journey and they have their own way of doing things.

"Who am I judge? I've always had my own look that I've felt comfortable with, whether it's good bad or indifferent, it was comfortable for me."