Humanity may have created its strongest weapon yet against both boredom and productivity:TikTok.
TikTok’s increasing cultural impact is hard to deny.
Meanwhile, Duolingo’s brand account introduced many of us to alarge, green twerking owlin 2021.
Those trends can be fleeting.
Even if that reprieve unintentionally lasts 3 hours.
(Happiness comes at a price.)
Here’s our ranking for the top TikTok trends of 2021.
Hacks
Some people use TikTok to offer tips they think could be helpful.
Others use TikTok to make fun of those people.
Some TikTok users have taken those “hacks” and turned them into hilarious parodies.
In one such video, someonepretends to ask for a free entree from Olive Garden.
Imitation, even in jest, is the best form of flattery, I suppose.
– Abrar
let me know if this works !
!#fyp
9.
In one clip, for instance, a usershows off her weight loss.
In another, anAmazondriverhides a packageafter reading a doormat that says, “like hide packages from husband.”
To borrow a line from Rodrigo, it’s brutal out here.
– Erin
doesnt everybody?
#likeadamnsociopath
7.
The original TikTok which featured the clip has more than 36 million views.
– Erin
Good soup
6.
TikTok has the incredible ability to take something old and make it new again.
It’s broken!"
Because the whole scenario is bizarre (why was he stacking bricks on a glass table??)
Most people aren’t successful, bursting into laughter once the boy in the original video starts talking.
The trend has spawned an oft-repeated comment seen all across the platform: “Oh no!
It’s broken!”
– Abrar
Its hard yallll its the little boy bruh#fyp#viral
5.
He danced around saying, “I’m a little lad who loves berries and cream.”
Some videos show people doing the little lad dance, or feature people with similar questionable haircuts.
The real strength of the trend, though, is how entirely weird it got.
– Erin
1 million !
Thank you#berriesandcream#littlelad#dance
4.
One video, for instance, featured the caption, “Why are you so goofy and childlike?”
followed by a montage of Robin Williams photos.
Another said, “You’re 33, why don’t you have kids?”
and showed Jennifer Aniston.
– Erin
#greenscreen#mamasaid#mamasaidthatitwasok#foryouinspo: @sunleopard
3.
What started as a supposedly heartwarming clip of a couple’s reuniondevolved into TikTok’s biggest investigative assignment.
It started when TikTok user @laurenzarras posted a video about surprising her boyfriend at college.
(Hence the name “couch guy.")
In one clip, for instance, a girl walks in on her boyfriend proposing to another woman.
– Abrar
robbie had no idea##couchguy
2.
But what a glorious distraction it all was.
– Erin
#duetwith @the.bobbybass SHANTY TIME once again!
If Noodle stays standing, it’s a bones day, meaning you should seize the day.
They’re simply following Noodle’s decree.
In other words: Yes, we’re all broken inside.
#nobones#bonesday#pug#noodletok#monday