My warmest greetings to the TikTok lovers, the TikTok haters, and the many people who just don’t know what the heck is going on anymore. At various different times, I find myself falling into all three of these categories. I’m a walking paradox when it comes to the clock app: I find the stuff that makes it great can also be deeply, deeply annoying. It’s a great place to celebrate the beauty of the mundane, but seeing every other wannabe influencer post a day in the life video swiftly becomes boring. It’s also a purveyor of some of the most painful cringe known to man, but I have no choice but to admire the commitment to the bit.

If there’s one thing that we can safely conclude about TikTok, it’s that it is a place that contains multitudes. You can find some of the listed below, ready for your reactions and judgment. Don’t you feel privileged to be alive at the same time as the peak of short form video?