TikTok Trends - Hot Stuff Theme

Sups 0:01

Think about now watching. I don't know, thousands and thousands of people on loop, just stuffing garlic on their face. Is that something that I wanna do with my life?

Andi 0:12

One second for everyone to cringe.

Tanner 0:14

Oh yeah.

Sups 0:16

This is so TikTok

Tanner 0:19

do they really do that? See, I, as a kid, I used to collect rocks and bugs, but I didn't know this was cool.

Sups 0:26

My takeaway is, are you watching love island now?

Andi 0:30

hello and welcome to this episode of the, I should have known podcast, the trivia podcast that can't be trusted each week. Our Quizmaster presents you with four big facts on a topic, but one of those facts is a lie we're continuing with hot stuff. And today I'm your quiz master Andy. And I'm doing a find the fake episode of TikTok trends. So I will present you with four trends, but one of them I have invented. So join our other hosts, soups and Tanner in figuring out which one is the lie.

Tanner 0:59

So these are hot,

Andi 1:00

they're hot TAC trends. Yeah.

Sups 1:02

We are doing an episode of TikTok, but the three of us don't have a TikTok account. Yeah. So we kind of experts already. So I love this

Andi 1:11

Yeah. This should be entertaining. I have a feeling like if you spend significant time on TikTok, this will be very

Tanner 1:16

Yeah Probably

Andi 1:17

Some of the numbers on these it's astounding. One of the issues is what's a trend, right? There's no quantifiable word for trend. the way I did it was basically if a publication or journalist is talking about it, it must be popular enough. Mm-hmm so that's kind of my metric for trend I did look up views on like hashtags. Cause you can do that without an account. Yeah. But. It's hard to say what a trend is,

Sups 1:39

Right?

Andi 1:40

So my fake one. It's not like zero people do this. Right. Because I don't think you could come up with something that zero people do. Yeah. But it's considerably lower and it's like, Not a, thing.

Tanner 1:52

Like it's not trending yet. Yes.

Andi 1:54

It's not trending yet

Sups 1:56

Who knows? Maybe after this episode. Yeah.

Andi 1:58

sure. You know me? I'm a trendsetter.

Tanner 2:02

yes.

Andi 2:03

I'm hot on all the

Tanner 2:04

trends. So

Andi 2:05

are low hanging fruit.

Sups 2:06

Okay.

Andi 2:06

what country doest, TikTok originate from

Tanner 2:09

ah,

Sups 2:09

China

Andi 2:10

Yes. It's from China. And bonus question. What year was it launched?

Sups 2:16

I would say 2016.

Andi 2:20

Ooh, right on 2016, it was launched. And if you don't know, if you are even less in the loop than me, TikTok is a video hosting app where it has very short videos and like an automatic. Algorithm feed. So it just keeps playing videos for you. You don't have to go looking it's kinda like YouTube auto play.

Tanner 2:40

One of the things is it's synchronized to music. That's a big thing,

Andi 2:43

right? Yeah So this is a whole thing that, so I do not ever turn the volume up on my phone. Ever. My phone is always on silent at all times. Yeah, apparently sound is important in TikTok, which like my thing is who are these annoying people who are just like, I don't know. Do you listen to sound on your

Sups 3:00

Yes because that's because most people are on headphones earphones now, nowadays. So

Tanner 3:05

yeah True

Andi 3:05

I find that so annoying. So yeah, I miss a lot of the, the songs and whatever. And it's like, TikTok does not appeal to me. Like the sensory overload just stresses me out. So, yeah, these should be

Tanner 3:16

fun.

Sups 3:17

yeah, I'm ready for some TikTok trends. Oh right Yeah

Andi 3:21

so trend number one, Little raw garlic challenge. So TikTok is pretty popular with food and cooking mm-hmm and this challenge shouldn't be that surprising on is what it sounds like. But it's not just that you eat raw garlic. Okay, It's like a leveled up. Ah, the challenge is to get as many clothes of garlic into your mouth as possible and chew.

Tanner 3:44

Ooh. To release all. Flavors and aromas.

Andi 3:48

Yeah. So like, people made a big thing about like, you have to chew. Okay. If you just put 'em in your mouth, that's nothing you have to chew. So from what I could tell because of COVID many people lost taste and smell. And so I think originally it kind of started as people did videos of themselves eating like raw onions and eating raw garlic and being completely unbothered. And then it kind of just blew up Yeah. So this hashtag for raw garlic challenge. It had 108 million views

Sups 4:16

Think about now watching. I don't know, thousands and thousands of people on loop, just stuffing garlic on their face. Is that something that I wanna do with my life?

Tanner 4:26

I would feel so bad for the garlic. You're wasting all that garlic.

Sups 4:30

I mean, I'm not the most productive person on the planet. It's not like I'm utilizing every That doesn't mean I'm gonna be staring on my phone phone screen for hours and hours, right. To see somebody. But it sounds very talkish. Yeah. If it's fake then, well done, Andy, you're already a TikTok expert,

Tanner 4:47

I mean people. Stuffing their face full of guard. Like that's

Andi 4:50

terrible and

Tanner 4:50

chew and shoeing have to chew. But I have heard of like older things before TikTok was a thing. Like you put a cup of cinnamon in your mouth and then try to

Andi 4:58

swallow Oh I think it's a tablespoon.

Tanner 5:00

Okay. Table

Andi 5:01

a human being can put a cup.

Tanner 5:04

yeah Or when I was growing up, it was like put as many marshmallows in your mouth

Andi 5:07

yeah,

Sups 5:08

yeah. In a way I think tos also reviving a lot of these old stupid pranks. Yeah. Which Like I think also, the attention span is reducing I mean, I work in marketing and the average people that watch like an ad is like, Oh, 0.2 seconds. So people love this stuff and I mean, it's more like a commentary on the society then. Yeah Yeah

Andi 5:30

It feels like to me, like a rat cage, just getting the little drop of sugar water. Yeah. And you're just addicted to it and you just keep going and going right.

Sups 5:38

right There's actually some really intelligent things On TikTok I don't also want to discount the platform saying that is total crap. Mm-hmm

Andi 5:45

I also think the isolation of COVID and lockdown, like TikTok is something to do. Right. And it is a distraction. Like sometimes it is funny or interesting.

Tanner 5:53

I mean, it, does sound really interesting. I don't know. Could be fake. Cause you love garlic. That's one of her

Andi 5:59

food

Sups 6:00

I mean, this definitely sounds like a trend that could be in TikTok. The COVID angle gives it nice ring to it yeah. Yeah Let's hear the other three

Andi 6:09

all right. To trend number two, teeth filing. God.

Tanner 6:14

No.

Sups 6:15

Oh man.

Andi 6:16

One second for everyone to cringe.

Tanner 6:18

Oh yeah.

Andi 6:20

Okay. So now we're in the realm of Genuinely harmful and stupid behaviors. Yeah. So teeth filing is exactly what it sounds like it's people using usually nail files. board like an Emory board on their teeth.

Sups 6:36

This is so TikTok

Tanner 6:38

do they really do that? I

Andi 6:40

Yes

Sups 6:41

Andy Yes

Tanner 6:41

I don't know

Andi 6:42

This was kind of early like in 2020, and actually I couldn't find. Views for it because TikTok has banned they have removing videos from the platform because it is so dangerous So yeah, basically like some people have little bumps on their teeth or their teeth aren't perfectly straight. and dentists do file. People's. teeth but you should not do it at home. no,

Tanner 7:04

that's sounds memory but

Andi 7:06

Yeah, yeah. and then the enamel on the outside of your teeth protects your teeth. And so if things go badly, you can have issues with cold sensitivity, it can be weaker. They're more prone to cavities and some people. Even have filed their teeth for crowns. Into like the little shark teeth

Tanner 7:23

Yeah when you wanna get veneers or crowns, the dentist will shave it down to tiny little nubs

Andi 7:29

some people decided to do that at home God. And then not only at home, but then film themselves and then put it on the internet on TikTok

Tanner 7:37

Like a lot of places do this with like medical tourism. So people will go to like Turkey is usually the example to get it for very cheap and so this was recently on like love island. I think and it sounds very painful.

Sups 7:50

Sorry. My takeaway is, are you watching love island now? wow.

Andi 7:56

Jealous

Tanner 7:58

I

Sups 7:58

every day I'm learning something

Andi 7:59

new

Tanner 8:00

yeah,

Sups 8:03

yeah

Andi 8:04

Yeah. So then dentist did reaction videos being like, do not do this A lot of this stuff too, is because of the pandemic mm-hmm like people were saying they're like I can't go to the dentist for this little cosmetic thing. I'll just file my teeth at home.

Sups 8:18

Sure. If you wanna harm yourself, you're most welcome to do

Andi 8:21

that, then put it on the

Tanner 8:22

internet. Yeah. There's like a definite audience of watching people get medical stuff done, like pimple popping

Sups 8:28

I wanna say very likely this happened.

Andi 8:31

Yeah, it makes my skin crawl. This next one is pretty fun.

Tanner 8:34

Okay. Good. Bleach me

Andi 8:36

Yes Yes TikTok trend number three, gobbling core.

Tanner 8:42

So what

Sups 8:42

Wait what

Tanner 8:44

is this like a fashion style instead of like normal core yeah. Or cottage core

Andi 8:50

Yes, Yes exactly. So these are called aesthetics. Okay. So they're very popular in the internet and now TikTok and yes, Golin core is an aesthetic. It is related to cottage. which is hugely popular. It's about wearing like pre-industrial clothing and being out in a small cottage out in nature. It's usually very feminine, very pretty. And Golan core is kind of its darker little cousin. Yeah. So people Do makeup and stuff. Like Golans no way. And it's more about focusing on the dirtier elements of nature. So like playing in the dirt mushrooms bugs and it's a lot of collecting cuz Golans and traditional European fantasy, like to collect things

Tanner 9:33

mm-hmm

Andi 9:33

And so it's about like, collecting shells, collecting bugs, collecting mushrooms, collecting all kinds of little things in nature. It's about chaos. And it's especially popular with non-binary people actually

Sups 9:47

Oh,

Andi 9:47

cause it's less feminine and pretty sure it's more of like a mixture of

Tanner 9:51

See, I, as a kid, I used to collect rocks and bugs, but I didn't know this was cool. I didn't know other people

Andi 9:56

did this. well, did you dress like a Golin and skip around in

Tanner 10:02

film myself

Andi 10:03

And film Yourself? Yeah. It's cause you remember, these are all

Tanner 10:05

Well I mean yeah, if I did they're on, on tapes

Andi 10:08

Yeah. Yeah Right.

Sups 10:10

wow Okay And this, trend is like still active what was the time period of this

Andi 10:14

It was especially popular in the summer of 2021. But it's probably still fairly popular. I mean, cottage core is huge. Mm-hmm the hashtag Golan core on TikTok has 1.2 billion views with a B

Tanner 10:30

with a B.

Andi 10:31

Oh, what Yeah. So I think it's safe to say this is a trend Yeah

Tanner 10:34

Yeah. I've also heard that the hashtag for this summer, instead of like hot girl summer it's feral girl

Andi 10:42

summer

Tanner 10:43

yeah. It's so it's like hot girl. Summer's

Andi 10:45

little cousin. Yeah. People did describe that as feral and

Tanner 10:49

chaotic. Yeah. Yeah. This fits right in,

Sups 10:52

It sounds real to me. Yeah.

Tanner 10:53

I mean, going mushroom picking. I think that would be really, really good on TikTok.

Sups 10:58

Yeah, I think, I mean, it has all the elements of a TikTok

Tanner 11:01

trend taking Yeah. Yeah. Getting dirty and pulling worms out of the, dirt and going fishing with them and stuff Sure

Andi 11:07

it, wow You really got Gowin cord down, I think Is

Tanner 11:10

this yours sounds like normal life. Yeah.

Sups 11:14

where are you launching your channel?

Tanner 11:16

Right. Me and my grandma. We could totally launch this.

Andi 11:20

Like I'm from a rural place. I grew up playing in the dirt, like outside constantly. So like, it's very funny to watch people like LARP my life. Like

Tanner 11:28

Yeah.

Andi 11:29

it's like

Tanner 11:29

That's so 40.

Sups 11:31

I'm just wondering if it has 1.2 billion views and I'm sure media across the world covered it Yeah And somehow it never popped up on my feed

Tanner 11:40

man Sounds like it could be made up

Sups 11:42

I mean, for Andy, this hits like close to home. Right. Yeah

Andi 11:45

All right So TikTok trend number four, the strawberry question.

Tanner 11:50

Strawberry

Andi 11:51

Yes. So this is a kind of a questionnaire survey kind of So you would film yourself, asking someone, this question. Okay. So I'm going to ask you guys this question.

Tanner 12:00

Okay. Let's hear it.

Andi 12:01

All right. If you were walking past a strawberry field, would you take a strawberry and eat it if you were hungry?

Tanner 12:09

Oh, it's like an ethics question. I thought it was gonna be like, are strawberries berries

Sups 12:13

know Yeah. If I was hungry, most likely, yes,

Tanner 12:17

I would not. It's not

Andi 12:19

my Okay.

Sups 12:21

oh wow.

Tanner 12:21

Is that

Andi 12:22

we're gonna we're

Sups 12:23

what if there's nothing else to do at this? Like yeah

Tanner 12:26

hungry you are. I think, right. I still would say I shouldn't. have, ah, it depends how, how hungry I am. My ethics change with the context.

Andi 12:38

All right. So there are kinda some follow up questions if you say yes Okay. So how many strawberries would you take

Tanner 12:44

oh,

Sups 12:44

Ooh. If they're like all together,

Andi 12:47

yeah It's a strawberry field they're growing in a, in a field.

Sups 12:50

I know five, six.

Tanner 12:51

One, to prevent me from dying. Yes. I mean, this is an extreme

Sups 12:57

if I was eating, then might as well

Tanner 12:59

lead from I like that. Yeah. I like that. If you go in for one, why not six? Yeah. I still say no, but if I'm like dying then maybe one,

Andi 13:08

And what if the farmer saw you? What would you do?

Sups 13:10

you I would pretend that I didn't see him. oh, is that yours?

Tanner 13:19

sorry. they were public use. I don't

Sups 13:23

I have a feeling we are doing really bad at this place

Andi 13:25

Yeah. So this is very funny. If you know what the strawberry question is, I hope you enjoyed this. This is very funny. So turns out since you guys would both eat strawberries that don't belong to you, you guys are obviously cheaters.

Sups 13:39

whoa,

Tanner 13:39

whoa,

Sups 13:40

whoa whoa Relationships

Andi 13:41

the straw question is not actually about strawberries. It's a survey I mean this is a super hetero, so girlfriends would ask their boyfriends and then trap them as like proof that you are cheater because you would take something that doesn't belong to you.

Tanner 13:57

Huh? Well, you didn't tell me that I

Sups 13:59

had in my

Andi 14:00

pocket.

Sups 14:01

Yeah.

Andi 14:02

Well, you're taking some, did someone else's strawberry. why are you hungering after someone else's strawberry?

Sups 14:07

Why do you think that the strawberry is someone else's property? You

Andi 14:10

Well it's

Tanner 14:11

Yeah That's

Sups 14:11

true.

Tanner 14:12

true.

Andi 14:12

I mean, honestly, the heteronormativity of this whole concept is so stupid

Tanner 14:17

and being monogamy and Problem There is you can't ask the strawberries if they wanna join

Andi 14:22

you. Yeah Yeah

Tanner 14:23

Right. They have

Andi 14:24

I no autonomy The strawberries, no autonomy. Also this farmer has like thousands and thousands of strawberries

Sups 14:29

And he cares and he cares because I took five

Andi 14:31

Yeah. Oh yeah. So this is the strawberry question sounds

Tanner 14:36

very immature.

Andi 14:37

Yeah. So there's kind of a, genre of couple pranks or cheating pranks. Oh, on TikTok, which are extremely popular. And so the strawberry question is like an extension of that mm-hmm people apparently love videos of men. Being super alpha. if you get really jealous, that means that you love your girlfriend, I guess. Apparently

Tanner 14:59

gross.

Andi 14:59

I thought it was very funny that Tanner was like no I wouldn't eat the strawberry I know you wouldn't too It's like but also what's funny is like I know he means the strawberries Yeah He literally

Sups 15:09

wasn't eat the strawberries I also only meant the strawberries that I would eat the strawberries and nothing else

Andi 15:14

I mean, even the whole concept of like, I'm gonna catch my partner in a trap admitting he would cheat by talking about strawberries is just like, yeah, I like immature. I like it's silly, but this is extremely popular. Hashtag the strawberry question. 4.1 million views and couple pranks or cheating pranks was 4.6 billion.

Tanner 15:38

Oh man.

Sups 15:39

and I can totally believe that this exists on TikTok. Yeah

Andi 15:42

Yeah. So those are my four TikTok trends.

Sups 15:45

Wow. very cool. Before Tanner and I guess which one of these are fake, could you just repeat the four TikTok trends please?

Andi 15:53

All right. TikTok trend number one, the raw garlic challenge, TikTok trend number two, teeth, filing to trend number three, gobbling core. And TikTok trend number four, the strawberry question. One of those I made up.

Tanner 16:23

All right. They all sound like TikTok would have them on there. Which of them jump out at you though?

Sups 16:31

I think between two and three mm-hmm this coupling core, I mean, I don't know.

Tanner 16:38

Sounds pretty out

Sups 16:39

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's very possible. And the fact that it has billion views, the conversation around gender and stuff, all of that sounds to be true. So I don't know. It it's difficult. Yeah.

Tanner 16:49

Yeah you think I think if I was to just right off the bat, pick one that she would make up. Garlic. Yeah. Sounds right up her alley. One of her favorite foods. Okay. Strawberry one sounds real. To me. Sounds immature. Yeah. The Golan core also really stands out to me. It sounds like she could make that up

Sups 17:06

that's what I was thinking Okay, so I'll get a pick tooth filing

Tanner 17:10

Ooh yeah. I really hope it's made up

Sups 17:12

yeah, yeah. I also have feeling that it's Golin co

Tanner 17:14

Okay Yeah. I'm gonna go with Golin core. Okay. Yeah It's too good to be true because if I would do it and it's a trend can't be true.

Andi 17:21

you're just not trendy enough Yeah. So I am not sadistic enough to invent teeth filing that unfortunately happened and Coghlan core's real team Yes Yes Golan core is real. Apparently it was one of the biggest trends of like 20, 21. So I found it on lists of like wow. Best trends of 20, 21. Yeah. So the one I made up

Tanner 17:43

garlic.

Andi 17:44

Yeah. It's but, there's a twist So raw garlic challenge. when you look that up, ONAC there's. Clear thing. It only has about a hundred thousand hits and you do see people eating raw garlic, but none of this big, like shoving clothes in your mouth and chewing, I made all of that up. Okay. But there is a garlic related TikTok trend, which is extremely popular and even. Stupider it's garlic in nose. People stuck clothes of garlic into their nose. Apparently it's supposed to relieve sinus congestion. But definitely makes it worse. And that garlic in nose had 108 million views. Wow. That was where that number came from.

Tanner 18:27

You just shove a cl right up your

Andi 18:29

nostril. People did. And they're really, gross because the garlic irritates your sinuses and makes you make more mucus. Yeah. So there's a lot of snot it's really gross. So the real trend is worse.

Tanner 18:40

Yeah my God. Yeah. That's so much worse.

Andi 18:43

Shoving it in your nose is real. Yeah. Eating it. I made that I made that.

Tanner 18:47

Wow

Andi 18:48

please don't do that. Yeah. Don't waste garlic like this don't do that

Sups 18:52

Handle and don't file your teeth or don't go taking strawberry quiz or

Andi 18:57

but do Gowin core

Tanner 18:59

Yeah

Sups 18:59

Golans okay. Go for it. Yeah. I like that one

Andi 19:02

too,

Sups 19:02

but go for

Tanner 19:02

it. Oh Yeah. Garlic, Yikes. I should have known.

Sups 19:07

I should have known.

Andi 19:09

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Tanner 19:22

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