The Greatest TikTok Trend 

we are still smiling jordan what have you done 😁

make happy, jordan!!!

if we stop smiling, we'll get executed... it's for population control, I'm sure you understand

Jordan free us we can’t stop smiling :)

My pet worm died and I'm at its funeral still smiling. what have you done to me?!?

Yes

I HAVE TO OR THEY’LL KILL ME!!!

LOL

UHMM WHY WAS I SMILING THE WHOLE VIDEO OMG

“*laughter* THAT ROCKS!”

Fr

I feel like that was the only appropriate response lmfao 🤣 😂

i haven’t watched the video yet but this reply fucking terrifies me i don’t know what it could even mean 😭

!?!?!? ⁉⁉OMG HIIIIIIII :3

It felt like the shot itself launched him and I’m howlinggghh

"So yeah. You have to charge yourself or else you die but more importantly you must keep it risking your life so people won't think you're cringe."

Kind of same parents reaction to disability

Because if you stop they'll kill you??? Obviously?

You have to smile OR THEY'LL GET YOU

the system has taken hold of you. it’s too late.

your smile looks a little low.. might want to ask mother to stop smiling

Update please. It's been 18 hours now. Have they been released yet??

It's been 21 hours now. Is your family safe??

Blink twice if you need naval support

It's been 10 days, they're-...he- I'm sorry.

Guys..it's been 2 weeks. I think there gone....rip.

OKAY I'M GLAD IT'S NOT JUST ME!!! I THOUGHT I MUST HAVE BEEN CRAZY

But is he wrong tho?!😂

Is this negative or positive? 😭

YOU MESSED UP!!! THE "OMG" GOES UNDER THE REST OF THE SENTENCE!!!!!!!!!! YOU'RE GONNA DIE!!!!!!!

​@@Elizabean1984 Plot twist it changed their ethnisity.

@@Elizabean1984 llamas look I

UHMM WHY WAS I SMILING THE WHOLE VIDEO OMG

Same, people almost always talk about something or someone that’s bad, problematic, etc. (to be fair it needs to be discussed for change to happen) but I think it’s great to have somebody talking about something that’s just fun and interesting

​@@JacobPDeIiNoNi Not to mention that genuine conflict resolution and self/community improvement comes from consensual conversations, not targeted content

This is a really good point. Some video essayists that appreciate over criticising I like are Jacob Geller and CJ the X, if you’re interested

There's shitting on trivial things which is pointless but lots of youtubers are criticizing things that needs to be called out like racist politicians, dangerous tik tok trends, ect. They are not just hating for the sake of hating.

Such a good point. Ugh I had to take a break from certain channels and social media because I realised that sentiment fed into my real life. And I would automatically antagonise or hate on things for no actual reason 🙁

Ooh lmk if you remember their name

i love this comparison actually

Wait thats so… well constructed and actually hilarious im impressed cause i could not have guessed where that story was going at any point until the last sentence

literally had to check this out based on ur description and i’m so damn glad u commented this as it made my night fr

There’s a lot of meme povs and honestly I dislike them cause I’m expecting some big dramatic thing and then it’s just meme 😭

LMFAOOO

she also has a miss keisha one and a “u should get the orange soda it’s so good” “ok” “i’ll have the strawberry soda” one

Very interesting insight. It resonates with my personal theory that the whole foundation of this trend was created in a childs mind that held onto it through youth and used it as some kind of coping mechanism for stress, tension, anxiety or conflict caused by the surrounding world that a young person can most likely not change anything about, similar to the people who daydream excessively because theyre being bullied. I was one of those people. Also I was clinging onto my kindergarden fantasies throughout my whole life until now because of destabilizing changes that happened back then, just for me it grew into psychosis, dellusion and obsessive voices. But sometjing just tells me that what we saw here might be another way of, maybe not as extreme disturbances in a young mind.

Thought you were talking about the movie Smile and I got so confused

totally agree, but which one has the last theme?

The battery one also reminded me of the spoon theory. It's used to explain how people living with disabilities or chronic illnesses often only have a limited amount of energy available and that they need to carefully ration it.

​@@alder4612 as someone who has chronic illnesses, I LOVE the spoon theory. Its so helpful to explain to people that I really do want to do something, but I just physically cannot. Or, being physically able, and mentally exhausted.

@alder it’s kind of the exact opposite of spoon theory, because she can recharge at will. I have rheumatoid arthritis. If I could jam a lightning connector up my hooha and get through the day I’d do it like a shot.

true ! getting the sense these scenarios may take inspiration from actual real life frustrations and struggles young girls deal with

Yessss

Yesss I actually enjoy these so much

Yeah I used to use those prompts to write the wildest fics 10 years ago

The god of Areppo is my favourite story to come out of tumblr and i every time i see a new addition to the whole story it fills me with so much joy

Actually a lot of these ideas come from there! I was never rly a tumblr user, but I saw a lot of posts about soulmate AUs of from tumblr, and those are a really common POV material!

the entire series was made to teach people dandelions are edible and nothing can change my mind

@@hangryhufflepuff9530 have you eaten dandelions after reading it though?? If you haven’t then the message was wasted :(

@@froggy5748 I ate _a dandelion_ just the plant. Not dandelion greens.

​@@froggy5748 Necessary warning whenever people mention eating dandelions: if you're going to go out and forage for dandelions to use as food, please make sure you know both what a dandelion actually looks like/when you look for it and the look alike plants in your area. Multiple people have died from mistaking coltsfoot for dandelion and, beyond that, a ton of plants look like dandelion.

To be fair, are there any pro-establishment stories at all?

AHAHAHAHA THE SECOND ONE

I mean, we all know how expensive Disneyland is, so that just seems like a sound fiscal decision.

who's the RU-vidr??

@@guilhermeshiba3135 it was a commentary talking about it so...danny gonzales? Kurtis conner? Chad chad? I'm sorry, it's been too long. I just remember the tiktok being reacted to

@@catelynh1020 One of the white guys on the internet (or Chad Chad)?

AWOOOOOOOOOOO(ga)

@@mahbluebird AWOOOOOOOOOOO(gay)

@@amysaysbye now that's a little bit uncalled for

AWOOOOOOOOOOOO

AWOOOOOOOOOOOO

yeah divergent made sense, but i wasn’t so sure about the hunger games being about highschool lol

Yeah that was a stretch

Sorry if I’m missing a joke but she volunteers because she freaks out about the idea of her sister having to fight and knowing she’d be torn apart. She volunteers to protect her

I’m 21 and honestly I love them it is nice to see them not being hated on bc maybe it’s a little “cringe” to some but it’s so entertaining. Maybe it’s the fact I was a film kid or always tried to write weird fantasy stories and was into YA dystopian novels idk but it’s really nice to see people create and realise these concepts with basically just their phone and themselves

Happy pride month, you got me

damn how’d you know 🤯🤯 oh fuck my pfp has a pride flag

xx hugs dude

Sorry for your loss, have an amazing day

hard agree to all of this!!! (especially unstructured Jordan my beloved)

😂😂

same lmao

But did he make you smile through the whole video?

@@All_american_jam umhh why was i smiling through the whole video omg

His face when he did that 😭😭

@@AmyAberrant 😭😭🤣 ikr

wow you must be so exhausted. thank you for your sacrifice. jordan may not know how important you are, but we all appreciate your generosity. you’ve really helped keep us entertained for all this time. and we’ve never shown you the gratitude you deserve. keep doing the lord’s work bro 😔🙏

I mean there's definitely cringe, also there's the whole Chinese espionage issue. I really don't think people are just uncomfortable with how genuine others are being when we cringe at tiktoks of a 17 year old taking his shirt off and wiggling his eyebrows suggestively and then licking his lips.

@@FrenkTheJoy i didn't say there isn't cringe. I just said double-check that you're cringing for the right reasons.

😂😂 nasty

and perhaps even cockblocked

Or “edged” for the un-balled of us

@@baintreachas edged could still mean getting to the climax, just delaying it. Balls are gender neutral anyway.

@@cthulhu8164 finally, a worthy opponent