Do you ever get so tired and bored of a TikTok trend after a while? I’m sure you have. Well, let’s see if you agree to a trend that needs to be left in 2024!
“Very Demure, Very Mindful”
31-year-old Tiktok Star, Jools Lebron came up with the saying “Very demure, very mindful”. It started with the Tiktoker using those words in many different videos. She said “very demure, very mindful,” to refer to fashion and the right amount of makeup she thinks should be used.
How it was said
People usually define the word “demure” as “modest” and “shy.” However, Jools uses the word in a way that defines it as “graceful.” She continues to say “very demure, very mindful” until it REALLY gets recognized. On August 2, 2024, her “How to be demure and modest and respectful at the workplace” was posted. Jools shows her makeup and hair for work and uses the phrase “very demure, very mindful.”
She shows off how she looks very presentable for her job. This TikTok video went viral with 55 million views, 5 million likes, and 785.5K shares. The viral phrase “very demure, very mindful” became catchy for millions. It even started to become a part of people’s everyday lives.
Downfall of the phrase
Although the phrase was catchy, it became very annoying after a while. People overused it way too much. People found a way to use it in almost every sentence making it irritating. 15-year-old Joeseph Rios had his opinion changed on the phrase ever since he heard it more. “When I first heard it I didn’t know what it meant but I didn’t mind it. Now, I feel like people should stop saying it because everyone was saying it for a month straight and now it’s boring,”.
He agrees that people should leave it in the year 2024. It was only a one-hit wonder and now it’s just irritating for the people who continuously still say it. The “very demure, very mindful,” trend needs to be left in 2024.
Mukbangs
Mukbangs are videos/live streams of a person eating a really big amount of food while saying what each food is. There wasn’t truly a specific person who started mukbangs, but in the early 2010s, mukbangs became super popular by South Koreans. It then influenced thousands of people all over the world to make the videos. People watch these videos because they think they’re satisfying and many say they help people feel “less alone”.
Side affects of deliciousness
Although mukbangs do seem satisfying, in a way it is kind of unhealthy for the person in the mukbang to be eating that much food. It can cause the person to overeat which can strain the digestive system and cause body problems. It can cause weight gain, high blood pressure, and more.
Not only do they gain health issues, they can gain money issues too. Spending that much money on such a big amount of food just to entertain other people’s well-being is kind of unnecessary. Especially food prices nowadays have gone higher.
Jelly Bean Sweets
One specific TikToker that does mukbangs is Jelly Bean Sweets. She posts videos almost every day of her eating fast food. Although she is happy with this lifestyle, she gets a lot of hate. In the video of her eating Chick-fil-A posted on November 30, 2024, there are a few hate comments.
There are comments like “the difference in just 1 year is wild,” or “Is it really worth it?”. One year ago, Jelly Bean Sweets used to be a total gym rat. She’d post videos of her working out and how happy she was with her body. Yes, she is happy now too but you can see how much weight she gained.
Scrolling through her TikTok page all you see is fast food video after fast food video. It all just looks unhealthy. She gave up the gym just to pursue mukbangs.
Ella Iacovou, a 15-year-old Woodbridge High School student thinks Jelly Bean Sweets is “destroying her body for money and views”. After Iacovou continuously got Jelly Bean Sweets videos on her For You Page she would scroll as she didn’t enjoy watching her videos. Iacovou explains how “she should go back to the way she was eating before because she gained a lot of weight from eating so much for people to watch.”
Sad reality
So, the mukbang video trend really needs to be left in 2024 as they encourage unhealthy eating. Eating fast food like that will just cause health issues. Mukbangs set a bad example for the audience, especially the younger audience. It is honestly just better to watch videos that focus on healthy eating habits.
“BRAT”
Charli xcx released the music album “BRAT” on June 7, 2024. The album became so popular that it became a whole aesthetic, had its own dance, was featured in games, and even started the trend of “BRAT Summer”. People made a whole saying for it too. If someone calls you a “brat girl,” it means you have a confident, independent attitude.
“BRAT” Fashion
The “BRAT” aesthetic gave off bold, grunge, and punk kind of vibes. Millions of people fell in love with “BRAT”. The reason it got so popular was because of TikTok. TikTok created “BRAT summer”. If someone participated in “BRAT summer” they went out a whole lot and wore iconic clothing.
Usually clothing with a lot of black or neon with a hint of this lime green. Like the green Charli had f0r the album cover. That person most definitely liked to have a whole lot of fun and did a tone of rule-breaking.
The blandness of the trend
July 10, 2024, was when Charli xcx released “BRAT” merch. The merch is so simple but so overpriced. A green hoodie that says “brat” is 100 dollars.
The hoodie is expensive, especially since you can easily make it at home. The rest of the merch is only one color and has “brat” printed on it, too. The “BRAT” trend became iconic. Yet, like most trends, “BRAT” became very tiring.
Sofia Mercado, a 15-year-old Colonia High School student thinks people made “BRAT” unlikeable because they “overhyped it, and wasn’t worth the attention”. Mercado thought there was no use in dragging out the trend when it basically died out.
The “BRAT” trend needs to be left in 2024. It would be good because the trend has become tiring. People made it their whole personality. When that trend was so simple, people just overhyped it.
Normalizing Cheating
A lot of people say “social media ruined love” which is honestly true. Cheating has become such a big thing over the years. It being all over TikTok kind of convinced people that it’s okay to do it. Cheating got so bad it became hard for people to even get into relationships.
It first starts with micro-cheating. This is when your significant other flirts with someone, keeps in contact with an ex, likes/comments on preferred gender posts (depending on who it is), and so much more. People don’t realize that’s straight-up cheating because of how normalized it is. This sucks for this generation as some people genuinely just want to give away love. Now some people feel that they can’t give away love due to people flexing cheating.
Cheating Videos
On TikTok, many people post videos complaining about getting caught cheating. There are even videos where they complain about how another person they’re flirting with texted them while they are with their significant other. Why are people flexing this, why are there so many comments on those videos of people saying it’s relatable?
Discomfortion of the trend
Madalyn DeCillis, a 15-year-old Colonia High School student thinks people have normalized cheating too much. She goes on, “In my opinion, it’s one of the worst forms of betrayal anyone can commit. Devoting your time and life to one person and then finding out that you weren’t enough to fulfill their life and needs is gut-wrenching”.
Although she has never been through the experience of cheating, she sees how badly it affects others. She dreads leaving it in 2024. Decillis continues “I definitely think people should leave the TikTok cheating trend in 2024 because it is honestly so gross. I’ve seen countless people use it as if it’s something to brag about. I would be over the moon if people stopped normalizing cheating”.
As TikTok videos of cheating continue to go viral, people should stop posting them in 2024. It is not a funny and braggable topic like everyone thinks it is. The normalizing cheating trend needs to be left in 2024 immediately.
Brain Rot
Brainrot was a word since 2007 but became extremely popular in 2024. But, TikTok Brain Rot is when you spend a lot of time on TikTok where you nonstop watch videos. It all started by 100s of TikTok influencers. TikTok Brain Rot got to a point where it had its own videos.
Brain rots true meaning
It would be random memes with the most random sounds or even just gameplays with AI-generated stories. There are the Grinch memes, Skibidi Toilet, the Tiktok Rizz Party video, Ninja’s low taper fade memes, and more. Let’s not forget the brain rot terms too. Sigma, rizz, huzz, aura, fein, alpha, and so much more are brain rot terms.
How it is with brain rot vocabulary
People stuck to TikTok Brain Rot all say those words as a sense of “humor”. Literal children to teenagers go around saying it thinking it’s funny. It all just sounds like you have a pure addiction to your phone or social media. It becomes a part of someone’s vocabulary very easily.
Imagine someone asking you, “Is that rizz?” or “Do you have any huzz?”. It does not sound right at all! 15-year-old Matthew Diaz thinks brain rot is dumb and that “every word is weird about it”. He can handle some of the words when used but not too much to the point where it’s irritating.
How it treats the world
Brain rot does nothing but have a bad impact on many individuals’ lives as it makes people seem immature. The lack of vocabulary can throw people off so quickly. We should forget all brain rot terms and memes so we can move on to funnier things to joke about while still having a good vocabulary. TikTok brain rot trend needs to be left in 2024.
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