But in this one, you have to throw it back — a central move in the TikTok oeuvre. The U.S. Just Reported Over 100,000 COVID Cases in a Single Day. Log in or link your magazine subscription, This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google, Photo: @sofiawylie, @addisonre, @zoifishh/TikTok, By submitting your email, you agree to our, Revenge Porn Perpetrator Officially Elected to Kansas House, The Birth of an Extraordinary Modern Progressive Movement, How I Convinced My Dad Not to Vote for Trump, The Sorority That Tried to Abolish Itself. You can really only do this if you can do a split. But still, there's no science to what becomes popular on TikTok — the algorithm it uses to sort content on its homepage is randomized, with clips on each end of the popularity spectrum shuffled around and placed next to each other with no categorization. Your torso does a body roll while your leg kicks back. It starts on TikTok. All Hail Our Unappreciated Prehistoric Huntresses.

It moves so quickly — it leaves me winded half of the time.

The course that these songs chart is open-ended, with only the power of the internet to decide where they go. Join the millions of viewers discovering content and creators on TikTok — available on the web or on your mobile device.

Canadian electronic duo DVBBS (pronounced "dubs") and R&B singer BRIDGE (pronounced "bridge") team up to create something sexy and slinky that shouldn't work on a platform that prioritizes obnoxious soundbites and catchy hooks.

This is your time to shine! But once you have it down, it’s satisfying and you’ll find yourself doing it at any given opportunity, just to brag. The moves pretty much correspond to the lyrics — the last word of the song is “baby” so you make a rocking motion. Annoying, I know—- but at least we have lots of time on our hands. Say you'll remember me Standing in a nice dress Staring at the sunset, babe Red lips and rosy cheeks Say you'll see me again Even if it's just in your Wildest dreams, ah-ha oh Wildest dreams, ah-ha oh I said, "No one has to know what we do" His hands are in my hair, his clothes are in my room And his voice is a familiar sound Nothing lasts forever but this is getting good now He's so tall and handsome as hell … The Soothing, Khaki-Clad Star of Election Week. The dance moves will only take you about 20 minutes to get down, but perfect execution takes more practice. Sounds very familiar. Tracy: WOW MY TIKTOK GOT 100 LIKES Rachel: oh no, the scariest thing on the internet Tracy: WOW! @Talialevinger posted this dance first in October with the caption “made up a dance!” And yes, this is another Doja Cat song. It’s like the macarena, or Soulja Boy, but harder and made for your viewing pleasure. If a song catches on after being used to soundtrack comedy sketches or dance routines, the spread across the app is increased tenfold, rendering it inescapable in even the most disparate corners of the internet.

If Laura Dern can do this one, so can you.

There is a deeply funny tutorial of this dance here.

The virality led to a deal with Columbia Records — the label's first viral signing since Lil Nas X — and in early December, the song hit No. But as the year ends, and the app boasts 500 million monthly users, plus superstar guest appearances and artists who can credit the start of their careers singlehandedly to the platform, it is clear that TikTok in a class of its own. Which, for the uncoordinated, is daunting.

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TikTok does that work for you. W/ @charlidamelio @addisoneasterling I know we snapped , A post shared by CREATOR OF RENEGADE (@jalaiah) on Feb 16, 2020 at 1:40pm PST. "Yellow Hearts" is pastel and saccharine, plasticky bedroom pop programmed with industry-grade lovesickness that indulgently alchemizes everything about the form into The One. TikTok is the destination for short-form mobile videos. But maybe that’s something the rest of us can work on while social distancing — getting a perfect split. © 2020 Vox Media, LLC.

And if you can do a split, you probably don’t need help learning TikTok dances.

There is nothing left to do but accept a song like "Yellow Hearts" for what it is: a song that you'll be humming endlessly until the next viral hit pops off. The uncertainty is torture anyway. If social distancing has finally inspired you to download TikTok, the social-media app dominated by Gen Z, congratulations!

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New research challenges the long-standing idea that only prehistoric men did big-game hunting. BITCH The scariest thing on the internet to this date. Your current browser isn't compatible with SoundCloud. You need to enable JavaScript to use SoundCloud. The dance’s creator, Ciara aka @ceceiswoke, made a tutorial at half speed, but even that is faster than I, for one, am used to.