TikTok is a social media platform designed for sharing, creating, and discovering short videos. The app is mainly used by young adults as an outlet to express themselves in a world full of unacceptance. The expressions can be conveyed in many different ways; lip-syncing, dancing, comedy, creating trends, and even sharing your finds with the people you love. Here are some “trends,” created and/or discovered within the Tik Tok community:
‘The You’
Currently, on TikTok, there is a sound trending based on a popular Netflix show. “You” is an American thriller series based on a dangerously obsessive man who goes to extreme measures to insert himself into the lives of those he is infatuated with. Within this show, the main character, Joe Goldberg, has a particular saying that TikTok users seem to fancy: “I just need to know who you really are. You are special. You’re talented. You’re passionate. You’re smart.” Users on the app are creating videos lip-syncing this phrase, while also revealing their weaknesses when it comes to obsession.
Can you cut a chair with a face-mask string?
In fact, yes you can and TikTok will explain how. Thousands of children who attend schools all over the world are using their face-mask strings to cut random objects. But, how, you ask? This scenario can be enacted using the heat of friction. Friction causes the molecules on objects that are rubbing against each other to move faster, producing high energy. This energy creates a higher temperature. Despite the science behind this, students are also using it in order to gain a following.
‘The Rock’ meets TikTok
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s hip-hop debut on Tech N9ne’s new song, “Face Off,” has recently gone viral with its lyrics orchestrated around hustle culture.
“IT’S ABOUT DRIVE😤; IT’S ABOUT POWER 🔥; WE STAY HUNGRY😈; WE DEVOUR 👹; PUT IN THE WORK 💪; PUT IN THE HOURS ⌚; AND TAKE WHAT’S OURS🥶”
An upload of Johnson’s verse can now be used as an individualized sound with over 114 thousand videos.
Olivia Blauser is a student at Oil City High School and a member of the school’s Oiler News staff.
