From beauty hacks to bizarre challenges, TikTok trends move fast—and the internet follows.

3 panel image showing different TikTok users discussing the February 26th trend.

February 26 is ‘Slime Your Homeboy’ Day—why TikTok is freaking out

Watch your back, or your homeboys might slime you out.

On by Lindsey Weedston
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Person pointing at small crack on while(l) shoes hanged on wall(c) finder pointing at cracked wall(r)

What are the Cave Diver memes all over the internet? Here’s why people are mocking extreme spelunking

Inspired by real-life cave exploration stories, the Cave Diver meme has evolved into a humorous TikTok trend.

On by Angela Andaloro
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Woman with high pony(l), Man with high pony and text 'trying the viral drop pony ponytail hairstyle'(c), Woman with ponytail and text 'trying the cool girl 'drop ponytail' ha ha ha'(r)

All the cool girlies are wearing drop ponytails. Here’s what that is and how to do it

‘The drop ponytail used to be the lived-in pony. I feel so old, it’s been rebranded.’

On by Rebecca Leib
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3 panel image of different people dropping objects on their feet.

Kids on TikTok are dropping increasingly heavy objects on their feet—here’s why it’s more than just a weird trend

‘Dropping things on my feet and rating them 1-10 on the pain scale.’

On by Anna Good
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Women are exposing how useless their boyfriends can be in this ’emergency contact’ TikTok trend

‘Ladies and gentlemen, my emergency contact:’

On by Lindsey Weedston
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Screenshot of Tiktok user @andoej's living room; Screenshot of Tiktok user @haleys.turn's living room with the caption 'boy and girl home'; Screenshot of Tiktok user @annaredman with the caption 'I think I have the best boy/girl apartment'.

The youths are rebranding cohabitation as ‘boy girl apartments’

There were boy apartments, then girl apartments, and now boy girl apartments.

On by Lindsey Weedston
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Screenshots of Tiktok users @ brennanyoungin, @savernelive and @averykatherinewood.

What is gleeking? The gross trend returns to dampen TikTok

‘POV: You are addicted to gleeking.’

On by Lindsey Weedston
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Screenshots of @detneee's Tiktok with the caption ''sigh name cuff''

Why are people on TikTok challenging each other to say ‘sigh name cuff’?

Sigh…name…cuff?

On by Rebecca Leib
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3 panel image: in each panel a person is shown and text appears over them. Text over says: You're so funny. Thanks.'

‘You’re so funny…thanks, my husband left me for my own mom!’: The best ‘You’re so funny’ memes turning trauma into gold

‘you’re so funny’ thanks i’m dead inside

On by Anna Good
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Three split of the lamp is starting to look weird memes

‘But the lamp is starting to look weird’: This dreamy trend is captivating the internet

Bring on the melancholy.

On by Charlotte Colombo
Man gardening with text 'Somewhere on google maps, it's august 2011 and my grandpa is out gardening with a smile on his face only a few months before passing away at age 90. Sun is shining life is good, forever frozen in time. (l), Woman in barbershop through blinds with text 'somewhere on google maps in 2009 my mum is still alive frozen in time in her little barber shop cutting hair'(r)

‘I miss you so much dad’—This new Google Maps TikTok trend has people sobbing with nostalgia over old photos

“Somewhere on google maps, my grandpa is out gardening with a smile on his face. Sun is shining life is good, forever frozen in time.”

On by Anna Good
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bed nesting is the new hurkle-durkling, is the new bed rotting

TikTok’s ‘bed nesting’ trend is the new hurkle-durkling, is the new bed rotting

Sleep has never looked so comfy.

On by Rachel Kiley
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Three split of different women talking

‘I hurt my own feelings’—TikTokers are debating if they have ‘low income white girl eyes’ and ‘trailer park cheekbones’

‘But for real do I have them?’

On by Rebecca Leib
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Three split of people with their dogs at computers

‘Tell me why I screamed too’: TikTokers are pretending their dogs got into Harvard in an adorable new trend

What, like it’s hard?

On by Lindsey Weedston
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Woman putting things on a plate(l), Woman with food on fork(c), Woman putting dressing on plate(r)

Breaking down the controversial ‘Slavic Doll Diet’ trend on TikTok

“My mother didn’t raise chickens, plant potatoes and make pickles so that America can think our ‘Slavic diet’ is buckwheat, egg and avocado.”

On by Anna Good
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