To organise all the conversations at a high level, I've compiled everything so far to help infrequent or new forum visitors (or if you're just overwhelmed) to navigate and find/explore the trends they might've missed when these trends first came out. In total from my estimations there are around 7,600,000 videos across all the trends, tags and channels that we might be interested in.
This thread will start with a structured 3 parter for continuously updated info, but feel free to continue with any suggestions/feedback/recommendations from your own tiktok-ing:
- Part 1 - The List of Trends and Tags so far
- Part 2 - Specific Channel Suggestions
- Part 3 - How to search for and save tiktok videos
Part 1 - Trends and Tags
I've combined the possible ways to locate videos under each trend as either search by #hash tag or search by the sound sample they rallied under (direct tiktok url given). In some cases there's both. I only list the ones I found decent yield of videos (> 100).
'Freeze mid-stride at the moment when X happened' trend (circa 2023-current)
Most current trend. No hashtag associated thus far, just rallied around a few sound bites)
- https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-s ... 2085708590 (~31k and still growing)
Barbie Madness / Doll Challenge (circa 2022-current, plus older, non-trend clips)
Revitalised by the very successful Barbie movie this year. There's probably dozens more hashtags and sound bites of people dressing up and posing like a Barbie doll (or just a doll in general) but I'll need to find time to explore this subspace.
- https://www.tiktok.com/tag/Barbie (medium yield)
- https://www.tiktok.com/tag/DollChallenge (low yield but a lot to sift through)
- https://www.tiktok.com/tag/MalibuBarbie (low yield but it's a fun variation where one person pitches their partner/friend)
Choose your character challenge (circa 2020)
Became a thing during COVID quarantines. People bouncing up and down, rotating different outfits/poses like character selection screen in video games of how they cope.
- https://www.tiktok.com/tag/characterselect (high yield)
- https://www.tiktok.com/tag/quarantinecharacter (medium yield)
- https://www.tiktok.com/tag/chooseyourcharacter (low yield)
- https://www.tiktok.com/music/som-origin ... 2287610629 (medium yield)
Stop! Wait a minute challenge (circa 2020)
Another COVID trend. A bit of a mixed bag of people or the POV holding their poses for a minute leaving another person in the video (or pet) hanging or reacting. Based on Bruno Mars uptown funk sound bite but the original sound is removed so only got the hash tags to go by.
- https://www.tiktok.com/tag/stopwaitaminute (medium yield)
- https://www.tiktok.com/tag/stopchallenge (medium yield)
- https://www.tiktok.com/music/HeyStop-65 ... 43622/list]
Robot Challenge (crica 2019-current)
Pop n Lock dancing / Robot challenge (not freeze but I know there's some robot fans here)
- https://www.tiktok.com/tag/RobotChallenge (high yield, overlaps mostly with sound bites below)
Pause Challenge (circa 2018-2021)
An offshoot of the mannequin challenge. Mostly lived on YouTube, longer format, but some really hot girls/girlfriends got involved. Some found its way onto Tiktok with the same hash tag.
- https://www.tiktok.com/tag/PauseChallenge (high yield)
Mannequin Challenge (circa 2016-2019)
The big one. One day I'll re-organise my collection with Tiktok finds but it's a fool's errand to be exhaustive.
- https://www.tiktok.com/tag/MannequinChallenge (high yield)
- https://www.tiktok.com/tag/maniquinchallenge (high yield)
- https://www.tiktok.com/music/Not-Your-B ... 2556422913 (low yield but surprisingly many. Significant overlap with #robotchallenge))
Smaller trends or just good yield tags / sound searches that don't fit into one of the above (many more really; I'll add any high yield ones over time):
Other search ideas from my own exploration so far (discussed further in next 2 parts):- Typo variants of the search tags above (e.g #manequimchallenge #manequinchallenge, #manikinchallenge are decent yield and don't overlap with the main tag much).
- foreign language of freeze or doll terms are also great ways to discover new subspaces of videos. Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Portugese and French have been the highest yielding for me
- Swimwear product channels often feature models, sometimes they do fancier videography to create a frozen or a pose and pan effect.
- Any tiktok users that featured in any of the above trends/tags that also has an at-home turntable might have more similar videos (would be wasteful to not use it multiple times). Specific examples of such channels that I like/recommend will be in the next post.
- Channels on tiktok that are timestop or freeze video curations might lead you to new rabbit holes
- Think of search term variations that play with time or immobility ('motion', 'slow', 'still', 'statue', 'mannequin', 'pause', 'freeze', 'stuck')
- Search terms or descriptions that are conceptually to do with stopping or freezing ('waiting', 'forever', 'slow')
- Search conceptually complementary to freezing ('magic', 'hypno', 'prank', 'flash mob'')
- References to famous freeze or mannequin movies or songs
- Use VPN to visit Tiktok from a different country/continent. The algorithm will serve you slightly different video recommendations, especially around the 50-200th results if you're scrolling.