Alma Deutscher isn’t your typical TikTok star. She’s a violinist, pianist, and classical music composer, not someone who lip syncs K-Pop. She’s written three operas and multiple concertos, sonatas, and waltzes. She’s performed at Carnegie Hall and been the subject of a BBC documentary. She’s an influencer, but the people she influences tend to be famous conductors, like Zubin Mehta and Sir Simon Rattle, or celebrated violinists, like Anne-Sophie Mutter.

On the other hand, Alma is 17, which puts her firmly in the traditional TikTok demographic. And last month, one of her videos, which typically get views in the low 10,000s, received over a million views, going viral shortly after it posted.