Easter is a great excuse for a family get-together and, for the first time in a long while, the in-laws did exactly this up Whangārei way. Highlights included being told that my brussels sprouts were "actually quite good” (thanks, Al Brown, for your Depot recipe), and watching our 18-year-old son and his girlfriend recording a 15-second TikTok video with his younger cousins. If you've not had the pleasure" of hearing My Name is Chicky, for God's sake don't google it. That earworm will eat your brain.
But this is not the first exposure I've had to this TikTok thingy. My beloved often starts her day with a cup of coffee and the rabbit hole of this video-based social-networking app. Top of the giggle-list are TikToks of Gen Xers making fun of millennials, along with a slew of short videos in which people recreate dance moves over snippets of songs (such as the evil Chicky).
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