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TikTok is an app. It's very similar to Vine. Folks use it to create and share short videos that are hilarious and often hard to understand unless you are familiar with the meme. I'll try my best to explain my favs. In the meantime, download the app because it's so good.
1. Pretty boy swag meme is people passively preparing to mimic an inanimate object, character, or famous person
2. Folks like to show off fancy dance moves
3. People like to throw stuff on their loved ones
4. There are thousands of videos of people doing this intricate footwork with their bff
5. People act out the lyrics to Dolly Patton’s 9 to 5
There are literally thousands of people doing their own version of this. I think it helps folks feel a togetherness in a world that’s increasingly isolating.
6. A LOT of people make funny videos with their pets
7. ERIC
8. 11.6 million videos have been uploaded to the #dropdeadgorgeous tag on TikTok. The creator shows themselves not dressed up and then “transforms” into being a babe. Everyone does it to Fergie’s London Bridge.
TikTok is so wholesome and wonderful and good. It’s currently my favorite place on the internet.
9. This one originated with someone using Haribos gummies to reenact Adele singing followed by the crowd of her concert singing back
I’m constantly amazed at the lengths folks go to create a short and funny video
10. This is the #syncchallenge. Over 102.1 million videos have been uploaded of people doing this fancy handshake.
It’s just so much fun
Some people opt to do it in the mirror
While others live life a little more dangerously
11. Duets on Tiktok are when one user uploads a video and one or more users create a response or reaction
I love the duets so, so much
12. EASILY the most popular duet right now on TikTok started with this video. He created it with the hope people would duet with him. MILLIONS of folks have made response videos.
Like this is one of millions of response videos, and it alone has 234.5k likes!
It’s also INCREDIBLY FUN
It’s also INCREDIBLY FUN
Isn’t this SO MUCH FUN
And people get REALLY SILLY
13. People on TikTok really like covering this song
14. Magic tricks are a popular theme
15. There are a lot of makeup artists doing really cool things
16. Making snow!!!
17. A very popular trending hashtag involves people doing...makeup tutorials on a potato to the beat of Sweet But Psycho by Ava Max
It is a potato
I love TikTok so much
18. I Just Flipped the Switch is where creators film a selfie video in front of a bathroom mirror. As the lyric “I just flipped the switch” plays, the screen goes black, and when the lights return, the participant's appearance has changed for humorous effect.
19. This is a random find that is SO GOOD
20. There’s a guy named Brendan who just chronicles his relationship with his pet duck named Jerry. You can see all his videos here: ttp://vm.tiktok.com/e1B2ak/
Hide and seek with Jerry the duck
21. Families use TikTok to make funny videos together. This warms my heart.
22. This is Piff, one of my favorite creators on TikTok. In this video he’s “cloned” himself, which is something he does a lot. His videos are so much fun.
This is the Choose Your Character meme. People act out the selection process for choosing your character in a video game.
This Choose Your Character, Mom Edition is pretty great
23. I have watched this video at least 500 times. It brings me so much joy
24. "What's the matter?"
25. One of my favorite themes is people showing off their secret rooms. This one is a dude showing people what a teachers' lounge is like (looool)
26. Look at these dudes just making the best out of having to work a trade show!!!
27. This is the boombop challenge. Everyone uses the same audio to act out different skits that reveal something cool at the end.
This is the Weird Internet stuff that I live for
This duet has 1.6 MILLION likes on TikTok. It is also the greatest thing ever.
28. Okay, this is the original video that was posted to TikTok. I don’t think anyone could have anticipated what happened next.
So then people started posting videos of their pets acting out the lyrics
There are thousands of these
Okay last one
Hello night Twitter
29. Welcome to Tinder!
30. This is the showtime challenge. It’s a really hard dance routine that people perform to the same part of the same song. It’s one of my favorite things on TikTok because so many different types of people participate in the challenge. I’ll keep posting my favs below.
31. I think this TikTok account is my new favorite. It’s a woman who’s a zookeeper at the Lubee Bat Conservancy. Her whole account is sharing her love for bats through memes.
32. Over 709,000 videos have used this song to prank their parents. The creator has their parents dance along to what seems like a wholesome Christmas song, but then the song changes and the parents react. It’s a great prank.
Lol
Pranking parents is the best
Okay last one of this prank
33. “I just want to talk”
34. “I will pee on the bed for comfort.”
35. I just found a video on TikTok of a man playing hide and seek with what appears to be a cow
36. “This is my voice” is a meme where people chronicle what their voice sounds like one day, one week, and one month after “being” something or somewhere. It always ends hilariously.
This one about wearing Vans become a meme within a meme (memeception?)
See?
More Adele
37. Um excuse me!!!
38. I like when young people show how talented they are with the camera and editing tricks
This is art
39. Three six nine is a fabulous meme that started out with this creator cosplaying as a Roy Lichtenstein painting. She subtly acts out the lyrics with her mouth and hand. (The song is Fake ID by Riton.)
I think something like 75,000 response videos have been created. This is a really fun one (a meme within a meme).
I love when people get way creative with their duets
And one of my favorite themes on TikTok is when people act song lyrics out literally
40. Sometimes people show off cool stuff they do with their cars
I have watched this video over 500 times. I love how proud the hype man is.
“This is my voice one day of playing The Sims.”
I have so many TikTok videos saved on the app and I’m worried about them getting lost or deleted, so I’m just going to dump them here for the next hour.
I love when creators do cool stuff with editing
This is the #tumbleweedchallenge. Drop to the ground and roll around like a tumbleweed when western music plays.
Isn’t this so sweet
People from all over the world have done their own version of it
Lololol
41. This is a meme where inanimate objects scream
AAAAHHHH
Helll#o, night Twitter
Good morning from TikTok
TikTok is also a really cool place to randomly find someone doing something remarkable
This creator has only made a few videos but they are SO GOOD. What is this trickery?!!!!
Like HOW???
42. This is a wonderful viral prank that kids play on their parents or teachers. The song lyrics should be one (perverse) thing, but there’s a twist! 288.6K reaction videos have been uploaded.
43. Mirror Moves is a challenge where people compete to do amazing trickery with mirrors
