You are all, by now, familiar with TikTok.
TikTok has reached a point in popularity where even millennials and boomers are on the app.
But only the real ones know about alt TikTok.
Also known as elite TikTok, it's a subset of TikTok with a niche culture focused on trolling "straight TikTokers" and other very specific meme points.
While straight TikTok originally referenced heterosexual TikTokers, it now more refers to the average and mainstream TikTokers, specifically the dancers and shirtless thirst trap videos.
For instance, alt TikTokers will create audio mimicking TikTok-style dance music to make fun of straight TikTokers and how they'll dance to literally anything.
Charli D'Amelio didn't fall for this one, so she is widely accepted and protected in these realms.
Actually, both Charli and Dixie D'Amelio are welcomed here.
Other watershed moments include #FreeAdam2020, a reference to the #DontFlinchChallenge kids from the TikTok family band @sm6band.
They want Adam to be free so he can wear his beanies and take off his fedora, I guess. And they hate Emily.
The Gummi Bear song is also important, and you should look out for the Gummi Bear album in stores on November 13, with lots of music, videos, and extras.
Music, overall, is incredibly important to alt TikTokers — they celebrate the score of Riverdale, especially.
As well as this tribute to The Hunger Games.
It's also what I consider to be the birthplace of "fairy" ✨🧚♀️🌈 comments, my personal favorite part.
And for even further explanation, fairy comments are a passive aggressive style of comment specific to TikTok that starts with a positive phrase, then is backhandedly retracted with a pun and emojis. Like, you really got a hang of these🧚♀️👑✨now let go🌈🌸🧚♀️
These comments have been used as a widespread reaction to current events.
The College Board was recently sued over AP test glitches, and alt TikTokers have taken over their Instagram comments, pointing out the monopolization of the College Board over standardized testing.
In a nutshell, alt TikTok is just a true chaotic place on TikTok for people to do the absolute most. It's mentul illnuss, luv.
It's become so widespread on the app that, allegedly, larger influencers are trying to "break in."
And has even stirred up a bit of *controversy* with the "straight TikTokers."
y’all can place me in whatever category u want to make yourself feel better but just know that u taught yourself to blur out the things u didn’t agree with.u taught yourself to label others.u taught yourself to erase the part in ur mind that told u that others have feelings too.