Who tf did I marry?

We break down the week on TikTok featuring viral pub drawings, purses and miracle stingrays

By Darshita Goyal23 Feb 2024

1 mins read time

Hiya, chronically online scrollers! Welcome to TikTok Decoder, woo’s weekly breakdown of trends, sounds and creators brought to you by senior writer Darshita Goyal <3 Fresh off the slate: a 70-part relationship breakdown, a miracle stingray and a very public Gen Z + millennial journal. Buckle in ~

hot trend: “girls under 30 ask questions, women over 30 answer”

Is living alone scary? How do I make friends as an adult? Should I save or spend?Does it ever get better? No, you haven’t been redirected to an agony aunt, these are only a handful of the 130k comments posted under @SetaRezy’s video that encourages girls under 30 to ask questions and women over 30 to reply with answers. The result: a wholesome goldmine of millennials supporting Gen Z. This is the rabbit hole you should definitely go down; drop your Qs, shed a tear, meet some girlies. There’s also one for the boys!

freshly viral: will Charlotte the stingray have a shark baby?

Now this isn’t typical for TikTok but we love some unhinged diversity. Charlotte, a lone stingray in a North Carolina aquarium shared the tank with five sharks and hasn’t met a male stingray in eight years. Only now…she’s pregnant, and researchers found shark marks on her body?! Of course the internet is obsessed and can’t decide if it’s a miracle “stingray Jesus” or a horror shark-stingray hybrid. We’re staying tuned.

new controversy: “who tf did I marry?”

Butter that popcorn, there’s a lot to unpack here. Over the last week, TikToker @ReesaTeesa posted 72 videos (!) now totalling over 10m likes about her ex-huz who she calls “a pathological liar” and “the United Nations of red flags”. Some things he apparently lied about: having friends, being the VP of a massive condiment company and putting in an all cash offer on a $699,000 house. The ex’s former stepson and previous dates have also supported Reesa’s claim, turns out he pretended to be a movie producer in another marriage all while driving a forklift. Going for a run or spending a couple of hours cleaning your house? Make this real-life horror show your playlist.

comfort follow: @LydiaWoodDrawings

She pulls out a collapsable stool, sets up her wooden easel and starts sketching by the side of the road. Lydia Wood is on a mission to draw every pub in London and her videos – straightforward, short and absolutely gorj – are a meditative rush. For those days when you want to hurkle durkle without any guilt, watch Wood’s videos for feel-good vibes and vicarious productivity.

pop sound: “luckily I have purse”

Warning: this sound makes little sense, and its contender (cotton-eye-joe nugget version) is worse but such is the internet. In a video, YouTuber Kelsey Kreppel glitched and said, “Luckily I have purse” skipping the “a”. Now creators are using the sound to show off their shmancy handbag collection and sarcastic humour. Sometimes all you have to do to break the algo is forget how to form a sentence x

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