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#CoreCore is The Deepest TikTok Trend Yet on The Viral List

We round up the most viral moments of the week…

Written and Edited by the YPulse Editorial Team

Jan 20 2023
North America, Western Europe

KEY TAKEAWAYS

#CoreCore is young TikTok users’ meta way of talking about their deepest thoughts, and how social media has turned them into aesthetics
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Photos of Greta Thunberg’s arrest in Germany have been meme-ified on Twitter

#CoreCore compilations showcase TikTok’s deep thoughts in brief compilations It’s ok if you haven’t heard of #CoreCore, as it’s not even mainstream yet, but it certainly is going viral: the hashtag on TikTok currently has 421M views. We know TikTok is a space where young people leverage legitimate social discourse, and this new trend is an artful way of combining their honed video editing skills with their nuanced thoughts about different social topics. The typical format for the trend is to combine clips from movies, interviews, and in an extremely meta move even other TikToks, with emotional audios, all...