🎵 Top Sounds 🎵
Our curated picks of the top sounds on TikTok
I Have Plans That I Cannot Share With You Right Now… 😌
I love a photo post and sound pairing. My plans that might get sabotaged? Cold sheets, ice cold water, A/C blasting, peering out at Below Deck: Sailing Yacht from under a giant duvet. To me that’s summer.Just A Girl 🧍🏽♀️
Finally, a sound for the Greta Gerwig lovers. Really great sound for exploring femme experiences.You Look Dope 🤷🏽♀️
Very similar to “I Feel Bonita” this sound is all about trying to feel yourself but honestly being too tired to try.
Here’s a sound for the woefully unprepared and the emotionally exhausted.
Let The Light In 🙍🏽♀️
This is a melancholy sound. That kind of goes without saying, I mean it’s Lana Del Rey. Summertime Sadness anyone?
This sound is what plays in my brain at 3:30 pm on a Thursday.
This sound reminded me to get an oil change. A pride month bop.
🔉 Our Sound Highlight 🔉
Sorrows
Mood: 😐
From Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story comes this callous (but funny) sound. Use it for your half-hearted attempts at comfort, and for all those times you were a little too real.
👹 Effects Highlight 👹
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This Bratz filter isn’t from CapCut! But it is trending. Pair with anything from what you expected adulthood to be like as a child, to an off-beat ‘me on my way to…’ caption.
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This CapCut filter would be ideal for any situation where you’re at odds over something you want… including rice.
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What are the things you just can’t help but go back to? Use this CapCut template to call yourself out.
Use this CapCut template for those moments of pure joy.
🗣️ The Moment 🗣️
Issues that are at the forefront of online discourse— ICWA
In 1978, the United States made the ICWA (Indian Child Welfare Act) law. The law gave tribal governments jurisdiction over children residing in reservations. Understanding the history behind ICWA is key to understanding the importance of the law. Prior to ICWA, a third of indigenous children were removed from their families. 85-95% of removed children were separated from their families and tribes even when other family members were available to care for the child.
The removal of indigenous peoples, and placement in white homes and residential schools, has a long history in North America. The tactic is colonial in origin. The goal is to force ‘assimilation’ or, more accurately, the erasure of Native people.
Congress passed ICWA in response to the devastating effects of removal on Native families and children. The law aims to protect Native children and requires child welfare programs to make active efforts to reunify the child with their parents. Now, a Supreme Court case is threatening ICWA and promises to undermine tribal sovereignty.
The central argument of the case, brought by a white couple who fought in lower courts to adopt an indigenous child, is that ICWA violates the rights of those seeking to adopt. In essence, the family is arguing to SCOTUS that ICWA disadvantages and discriminates against white families seeking to adopt Native children.
The family, just as a note, is represented by the same law firm that represents Chevron, Amazon, Walmart, and Shell.
This case does not just threaten ICWA. The case seeks to undermine tribal sovereignty as a whole. Why mention the other clients of the law firm in this case? Because this same firm has represented companies with a vested interest in projects like DAPL (and the actual designers of the pipeline).
Right now, groups are organizing to protect ICWA ahead of SCOTUS’ decision. This includes organizing online and working to protect Native children at the state level. It is clear that the well-being of Native children, indigenous communities, and tribal sovereignty as a whole, is under attack.
For resources and ways to take action: look here.
☕ The Zeitgeist ☕
Hot topics from across the internet
That’s it, I’ve seen enough, put Matty Healy in the stockade. This Buzzfeed article explained, but this New Yorker piece revealed even more.
Video podcasts have taken over TikTok, and it makes sense, those accounts need to get their AITA audios from somewhere.
We need to return to summer lists! I’m ready for the accountability (and the colorful markers.)
Pablo-Matic is problematic. sorry the pun was low-hanging fruit. The Hannah Gadsby curated show has a number of issues. The issues range from the Sackler’s attachment to the gallery, moral relativism on billionaires, and how developed the (already well-explored) criticism of Pablo Picasso is.
TikTok is attacking creators in the recommended hashtags and I’m actually concerned.
The Cannes Film Festival happened and I was there! My main takeaways: The Zone of Interest is a masterpiece, Cate Blanchett is incredibly tall IRL, and the Croisette needs more viennoiseries.
🥡 The Takeaway 🥡
It’s time to get creative with photo posts.
Photo carousels have been taking over TikTok. This has been true for months now, but recently I’ve noticed that carousels are doing a lot more than being video alternatives. Photo posts are allowing entirely new content formats to thrive on TikTok. Most interestingly, they are allowing for short illustrated stories (think children’s books for adults) and role-play games to take off on the platform.
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Embracing this format allows for even more storytelling and the slide-show RPGs lend to deepened engagement. Some of the most popular slide show game creators, like @mediterraneanbaby, have turned their games into multi-part series with hundreds of thousands of users hotly anticipating the next round of the game.
TikTok is clearly experimenting with formats, and there’s been plenty of cross-pollination from TikTok and Lemon8, including the introduction of post ‘titles’ to TikTok (something standard on Lemon8). As TikTok tries to expand into new content formats, there’s a lot of room for creators and brands to get creative and innovate with new features.