Child Culture Guide for Adults: Are Swingers Really Connecting to TikTok?
TikTok is going through an identity crisis. Once almost exclusively the home of teens creating dance moves and worshiping Satan , both job seekers and swingers spend time on the spot this week, pointing out (gasping for) maturity.
TikTok for swingers
In a sign of TikTok’s growing user base, swingers have taken over the social media platform. Polyamorous people, threesomes, couples, and maybe even fours post videos under the #Swingtok tag to document noteworthy connections , share details of their daily lives, answer questions from curious normal people, and make a dirty joke . The glory of TikTok has led to members of the “lifestyle” being disclosed to family members and some bans for breaking TikTok TOS, but they are not going anywhere: the #Swingtok tag has amassed over 600 million views.
A related fun fact I learned today : Pineapple demo, especially inverted pineapple, is used by some swingers to advertise their lifestyle on DL. Others think it’s corny.
TikTok for job search
Swingers aren’t the only young people using TikTok to promote their deviant lifestyles. Job seekers too. The #CareerTok hash has over 100 million views. It’s not very sexy, but crammed with helpful job search tips , video resumes, and eager marketers hoping to catch the trend.
And it does work, with a lot of TikTok users reporting video-based interview suggestions. Employers are starting to notice this too. Chipotle, desperately needing to workers in the current market, “experimenting” with TikTok and other platforms of social networks for job search since 2019 , and the National Hockey League has recently hired a photographer, she had found among the dance video and makeup tutorials.
As you might have guessed, the TikTok job search is more suitable for people in “personal” areas such as sales and marketing than for aspiring neurosurgeons.
TikTok – for dumb trends and viral nonsense
Lest you think TikTok is completely inundated with future wage slaves and sexual hedonists, the next goofy, mindless bullshit is also a trend on the social media platform.
- Medieval Knight: Rigo Cardenas, 22, plays with a knight at the Medieval Times restaurant in Buena Park, California. The stranger uploaded a couple of clips of his performance this week, and they went viral, dispersed millions of views and comments such as “HE CAN PUT HIS SWORD INTO ME ANY DAY” and debate over whether Cadena is more like Bucky Barnes. or Kylo Ren.
- Rubbing the inside of their tongue: It’s adorably silly and youthful, but many TikTok users post videos of them rubbing the bottom of their tongue with their fingers. It is reported to feel like a penis. (You know you just tried it.)
- Bug Eating: The last potential way to go viral on TikTok is simple: just eat a big bowl of bugs. Videos with errors (which are mostly fake) appear in the #fyp catch-all TT tag with such frequency that users ask how they can stop it .
Marvels ‘Eternals’ rots
Marvel’s astounding box office and critical success is drawing to a close. The latest movie in the expanded universe, The Eternals, is out on November 5, and critics have been warning so-so at best. It is currently 52 percent rotten on the rottentomatoes .
A critical opinion probably won’t kill the film – I mean, who has n’t been hungry for two and a half hours of epic starring favorite Marvel heroes like Sersi and Fastos saving the earth or what are they doing? It was also directed by Chloe Zhao, whose latest film was a poignant ode to the poetic homelessness of Nomad Land , perfect for a big-budget production. (Seriously: I love that Marvel gives indie filmmakers power over major franchises, but that could be a misfire.)
Movie Promotion This Week: Morbius and Boba Fett Trailers Drop
This is truly a golden age for the international monetization of intellectual property. Disney, which owns both Marvel and Star Wars, has released a trailer for eachof Marvel’sMorbius and Star Wars’The Book of Boba Fett .
Morbius tells the story of the Marvel antihero Morbius. I’m sure you know him as well as you know the Eternals , but if not: Michael Morbius was a biochemist who tries to cure himself of a blood disease and turned into a vampire. He was once the villain of Spider-Man, but now he is an anti-hero. He also has a PhD, so name him Doctor Morbius, the Living Vampire as a sign of respect.
Bounty hunter Boba Fett has yet to earn his Ph.D., but he is still qualified to star in Boba Fett’s book, an upcoming series that will air on Disney + December 29 series, a spin-off from the wildly popular Mandalorian, reportedly Fett, post , thrown into the Sarlatz pit, returns to Tatooine to take over Jabba the Hutt’s criminal empire.
Viral Video of the Week: What Your First 20 Years Will Be Like
TheOdd1sOut, a 25 -year-old YouTube cartoonist, has earned nearly six million views on YouTube with an animated guide to what to expect from young adulthood, “What Your Twenties Will Be Like . “ While the cartoon is aimed directly at the teenagers who make up the majority of TheOdd1sOut fans, it is fun and engaging no matter how old you are. Adults really constantly tired! We really go bald, become very boring and spend all our free time doing laundry and dishes!