It is about that point. Tomorrow (Aug. 6), Season 2 of College of Alabama’s sorority rush debuts, and it is already taking up our FYPs.
Whereas Bama Rush is the flagship of rush TikTok, sorority recruitment has already begun throughout the nation, giving us our repair of OOTDs (outfits of the day), rush in-jokes, and ladies exhibiting off their chapters. We’re in for a few weeks of continuous leisure based mostly round a system rooted in racism, classism, and elitism. It is good old school American enjoyable!
Alabama rush TikToks are large, however in addition they remind us of sororities’ racist, elitist tradition
Earlier than TikTok will get fully overrun by sorority ladies, let’s check out a number of the hottest developments taking up the app this week.
My rush bag
The primary wave of BamaRushTok arrived when potential new members (aka ladies who’re speeding sororities) started exhibiting off their over-the-top rush luggage. In a single video @gracynedmondsonn unpacks her pink Longchamp bag, pulling out a fan, stitching package, advil, hand sanitizer, wipes, Tide sticks, spray deodorant, roll deodorant, a hair brush, rain poncho, a bag of mints, and — breath — much more. You actually have no idea what will likely be pulled out subsequent. These rush luggage put Hermione Granger’s little beaded, charmed bag to disgrace.
Emoji pattern
My favourite pattern of the week entails TikTokkers repeating a singular phrase or phrase within the type of quite a lot of emoji. In these movies, creators reap the benefits of the “TikTok Textual content” characteristic and record a bunch of emoji on the high of their display, then they are saying no matter their chosen phrase or phrase is as every emoji. It’s wildly entertaining to look at every creator interpret how an unlikely emoji would say one thing. Some stellar examples of the pattern are @enemaemmy’s video, the place they embody eight completely different emojis saying, “Phoebe Bridgers”; @i.c.e._’s video of him begging, “Let me hit”; and @gageyayaya’s video asking, “Are you homosexual?” The pattern additional reiterates how emoji have created a brand new language and strategy to comprehend messages.
These three understood the project.
Credit score: TikTok / enemaemmy, i.c.e_, gageyayaya
Emoji helped me discover my voice in our new distant actuality
I assume I simply do not actually perceive
A clip of Mike Wheeler from Stranger Issues saying, “Yeah, I assume I’m just a bit uh, I assume I simply do not actually perceive,” has change into the soundtrack for TikTokkers describing one thing they discover complicated. Sure, TikTok remains to be obsessive about Stranger Issues.
The soundbite is from an emotional scene through which Mike confronts Eleven for mendacity to him, however recontextualizing dramatic clips right into a humorous pattern is what TikTok does greatest. This edit of Mike, which was initially posted by @loserxthings11, has been utilized in almost 8000 movies.
In a single video, @scarlye07 writes, “After I meet somebody who nonetheless would not have TikTok.” One other, posted by @greenbriarist, reads, “pov: u simply watched a number of the worst, most complicated films ever created trigger ur in love with one of many actors who had 5 minutes of display time.” We have all been there! Different TikTokkers taking part within the pattern, like @lilzosie, incorporate well timed popular culture moments. Their video describes Swifties reconciling with the singer’s staggering CO2 emissions: “being a taylor swift fan and seeing that she’s taken 170 flights prior to now 7 months and is MASSIVELY contributing to world warming.”
Sooo complicated.
Credit score: TikTok / scarlye07, greenbriarst, lilzosie
Sicitalian classes
The most recent TikTok problem is not a dance, however a take a look at of data. The “Sicitalian Classes” filter, created by @sicitalian, shuffles by way of the alphabet earlier than touchdown on a letter, then it challenges you to call a rustic, metropolis, animal, physique half, job, model, well-known particular person, clothes merchandise, chemical component, and sport that each one begin with that letter. The filter has been utilized in over 176,000 movies.
It is a comparatively innocent problem that takes me again to elementary faculty period exams of data. Subsequent week, be ready to have your information of Bama Rush examined.
