It is a TikTok-influenced world, and we’re just living in it.

If you have any attachment to spending time on your phone at all, a not insignificant part of your screen time diet likely involves short-form video. Even if you are not a dedicated TikToker yourself, it has had that much of an impact that this desire for the particular type of content it gives us can be seen pretty much everywhere. If our attention spans weren’t fried before, the far-reaching tentacles of the clock app have made sure that they are now.

The fact is that no matter what our opinion may be on all things TikTok, enough creators have been posting enough things that other people consider to be entertaining that we now have a huge backlog of videos, screenshots, and general tidbits to enjoy however we please. There is a side of TikTok for everyone, so long as the algorithm knows how to adapt to them; if they’re skeptical, they just haven’t found it yet.

However, it is also good to experience outside of the content niche that we get sorted into now and then. We need to consider what others are saying, and maybe even enjoy the process. A list like this gathers a number of random happenings and musings that TikTokers have decided to bring to the public attention, and they can be as unexpected as they are distracting. They are the perfect way to freshen things up and make us consider things that we hadn’t before. It is stimulating for the brain.