In its second annual Year-end rewind , TikTok reveals the most impactful creators, celebs, effects, challenges and songs that brought happiness and comfort to its vibrant and creative community in South Africa.
Short-form mobile video destination, TikTok has unveil some of the platform’s best creators and moments in its second annual year-end rewind for South Africa. Among these videos are some of the challenges, songs and creators that sparked creativity, gave comfort and brought smiles and joy to South Africa s TikTok community in 2020. Despite it being a difficult year, with the world battling a global pandemic that resulted in social distancing and uncertainty, TikTok and its local community managed to defy the odds and make us literally laugh out loud while bringing everyone together online.
Precipitous parlance in a pandemic
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When this year began, few would have guessed that it would end in multiple pandemics accompanied by an infodemic and a lockdown. A second wave was something for surfers (who were still allowed in the water), social distancing was for snobs, and zol was a noun, not a verb. This year has given us a whole new lexicon, one most of us would prefer not to have learned.
I think wistfully back to when the biggest news story was corruption at Eskom and
load-shedding was the worst thing we had to Janu-worry about. Since then the utility has coined a whole new term for power cuts: