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those viral food tik toks are a lot creepier than you think
hey everyone welcome back to my channel- today we’re back with another exploring the world of video, tik tok edition~* we’ve looked at a few tik tok communities in the past like the “i’m not like other girls” corner (tik tok made "i'm not like other girls" trendy again... great) and the fight between millennials and get z on tik tok (tik tok’s “gen z vs millennial war” is... embarrassing) but I think the community we’re looking at today definitely wins when it comes to the weird factor lol.
if you’ve been on the internet in the past few weeks you’ve probably seen a “messy food tik tok” show up on your twitter, facebook or tik tok feed. when they started showing up on my newsfeed i was completely confused and thought it’d be the perfect community to do a bit of a deep dive to figure out where all these videos were coming from and why they were so unhinged to begin with but still seemed to only get wilder as time went on.
it turns out the deeper you look into it, while a lot of these videos at first glance seem like tik toks, they’re originally from facebook of all places thanks to a magician (not joking lol) who decided he wanted to create an MCU for gross food content on the internet. somehow the videos gained so much traction (and angry responses) on facebook that people started taking the content and reposting it on other platforms like tik tok and twitter where it only became more chaotic with people running into the content with little to no context and just straight up disgust at what they were watching. but regardless the content continues to rake in millions of views on any and every platform it gets reposted on which is crazy... it's the kind of content that people quite literally can't look away from.
SO today i thought we could do a deep dive and look into the origin of the content and how it continues to be so popular even though the general opinion online is that it’s gross. it’s definitely an odd choice for an internet presence so i’m curious to know what you guys think about it all!
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