Witchtok is a community of witches on TikTok.
Liz Sommer is a recent graduate of Pitzer College, where she majored in media studies. As she’s somewhere between the end of adolescence and the beginning of full-on-adulthood, she’s working to bridge the gap between tweens, teens, teachers, parents, and grandparents when it comes to digital media and pop culture. She currently lives in Los Angeles. Contact her at [email protected]
Witchtok is a community of witches on TikTok.
Alternative style and culture are re-emerging in 2020 via young women known as Alt Girls who have goth/alternative style and are active on Alt/Elite TikTok.
Alt and Elite TikTokers have created a meme around the idea of everyone eating a bowl of rigatoni pasta on May 24, 2021.
#Momtifa is another name for the Wall of Moms: a group of mothers who have assembled to protect protesters in Portland against police and federal agents.
On TikTok, the acronym IB stands for “inspired by.”
Social media users have been relentlessly mocking Mark Zuckerberg after a photo of him surfing in Hawaii with a face covered in sunscreen went viral.
TikTokers are using the hashtag #ILoveChina to sarcastically suggest that by showing support for the country where TikTok’s parent company is based, their videos will get more attention.
In addition to referring to an overdose, the slang term “OD,” also spelled “ode” and “odee” is a synonym for “extra” or “a lot.”
The #WhatIdWear TikTok trend has a new cottagecore-inspired twist where people show off what they’d wear if they befriended another species.
“He has no lips”/”how will he get kiss kiss” TikTok memes come from several layers of TikTok meme trends, with audio from a duet between @polo.boyy and @thereal_tati.
To celebrate World Emoji Day, we’ve collected and defined some of the most culturally significant emoji of 2020 so far.
Some Straight TikTokers have been creating controversial POV videos where they roleplay as fathers talking to their children, calling themselves “daddy” and making sexual references about him and “mommy.”