Viral Tik Tok videos of 2019

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TikTok, the short video platform that went viral as a wildfire has successfully completed one year on this day. Even though its has been around since 2016, it was a merger with Musical.ly since last August in the form of a unified platform under the former brand’s umbrella. In what followed shortly , TikTok’s popularity shot up making it close to the biggest social platforms in competition with Facebook and Instagram.

Some Viral TikTok videos of 2019 include “Old Town Road” memes of people turning into cowboys after drinking the yee-yee juice (#yeehaw) . it had no match to #oddlysatisfying which ended up as the top hashtag this month. Also a lot of cookie decorating videos and hydraulic press machines crushing candles were prominent on the feed.

Another viral TikTok video of 2019, Mini Brands, a capsule toy that contains miniature, empty versions of branded supermarket items, from Breyers ice cream to Hellmann’s mayo was trending this year. The Washington Post described it as a toy that perfectly illustrates late-stage capitalism. It turned out to be the perfect medium for pranks as they try to convince others that the tiny items are filled with actual food.

The Miley Cyrus’ Viral TikTok video of 2019, based on her fake pop song from Black Mirror, “On a Roll,” found a home on TikTok as teens used its opening line “oh, honey” to create fairly straightforward skits.

A joke that started out about raiding Area 51 to break out the aliens became widespread in the viral TikTok videos of 2019 enough that the actual military held briefings on what a Naruto run is. The hashtag was seen to be going strong, and it probably will until September 20th, when the supposed raid will take place.

India, for TikTok, has particularly been one of the key markets for the app. ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company has been actively rolling out new initiatives and campaigns in the country. The Chinese application has also witnessed many interesting events like facing a potential ban in the country.

Musical.ly and TikTok which merged last year to work as a new global short video app, allowed users to create short videos and add music tracks, popular movie and TV show dialogues.

The merger provided musical.ly users the accessibility to move to TikTok with all their content. The new TikTok app launched with features allowing users with the ‘react’ feature to respond to their videos. The app also added functionalities like gesture filters like the funhouse mirror camera effects and VR-like filters.

TikTok has recently achieved its milestone of a billion downloads earlier this year in February. The popular portal, SensorTower reported that TikTok secured 1 billion downloads globally on Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store collectively. The report also stated that TikTok added 71.3 million users more shortly, worldwide.

Meanwhile, one year since TikTok launched in the US, the app has exploded into a cultural force. From helping push a little tune called “Old Town Road” into a tremendous hit to dominating VidCon as the freshest new platform, TikTok’s growth has been fast and relentless.

A huge portion of the app’s popularity in the beginning could also be associated to its hashtag challenges, in which the users filmed themselves lip-syncing or dancing to short audio clips about trending hashtags. The short clips originated from multiple sources being a snippet from a song (which can go on to live in a Spotify playlist of popular TikTok songs), the audio from a Vine (RIP), or a clip from a viral YouTube video. The best challenges got edited into TikTok compilations on YouTube.

The #reacttothis hashtag got trending with the reaction videos gaining popularity as a standalone genre on YouTube and Twitter. Along with duet videos, which let users add their own videos next to an existing clip, TikTok’s strategy of encouraging users to revisit the old videos to create new ones encouraged users to remix and reply to others, accelerating trends even more.