I completely noticed this and was just thinking about this the other day. It wasn’t tiktok I found it on but I was watching makeup reviews of products I was curious about and I noticed most of them did this thing where they would “ramble, ramble, ramble, ramble…*DEEP BREATH* …uptalk while sighing the last word of the sentence.” People from all over the world are doing it lol. I’m so glad I’m not the only one who noticed because after a while it got so annoying to me. That one girl Natalya nailed it lol (she’s doing a parody)
I TALK LIKE THAT I don't even use tiktok but for some reason I have acquired somewhat of a Kardashian voice after the pandemic And also the hands but I think a part of that is how long my nails always are
I think the sort of “mouse hand” thing started with women with long acrylic nails, I noticed in like 2020/2021 or something there was this sort of mini trend of women with long acrylic nails doing things like tapping the camera with their nails to get the viewers’ attention or other things to emphasize their nails clacking when speaking, when they make that sort of pinching motion their nails make a clacking sound that some people find really satisfying which serves to punctuate their sentences or emphasize certain words, I think people saw this and liked it so they started doing it subconsciously because of that even if they themselves don’t wear big acrylic nails
I initially subscribed for silly little youtube stories and now we're getting borderline dissertations on the recent transformation of linguistic trends across the globe. What a fascinating evolution, 10/10 no notes.
It seems less like an accent and more like a style kinda like calling a radio announcer voice an accent when it’s more a style, like when they all say in a big radio voice “You’re listening to WKZB chicagos #1 radio station!” Using that type of voice on radio is more a style rather than an accent
@@TwistedRootsMelodyI’m referring to the big voice radio trope that’s heavily memed, car dealership commercials and radio announcers use it all the time where they use a big male radio voice. Its different from the mid Atlantic accent used in mid century American productions where it’s normal speaking, I’m talking about the big radio voice that’s found in car dealership ads, radio station identifications “YOU’RE LISTENING TO WJZV, PORTLANDS NUMEBR #1 jazz station!” more associated with radio jockeys Is that called the mid century accent? I thought the big radio voice was different from the mid Atlantic
That one guy who was explaining how he puts on an accent because it's easier to enunciate mispronounced "enunciate" while explaining it using the accent.
I think there's this weird thing where TikTok is going through all the trends TH-cam did, but at a really accelerated pace, and that that's why the TH-cam accent that developed over like a decade is all over TikTok after just a few years
@@maya-mu3ce first person who invented the influencer speak imo is Jojo Siwa’s fast paced, “HEY What’s Up YOu GuyS!” then popularized by Mr. Beast and other Logan Paul adjacent Viners/TH-camrs. This bled into other platforms and now we have the different TikTok Accents & Gestures.
Schwa, the uh sound, is very common in many North American accents as well as some anglophone English accents, notably some Scottish accents. Many speakers will use a schwa in unstressed syllables (for instance, both As in "America"). So uh-NUNciate is a valid pronunciation. And I assume the "ch" was an accident that he left in rather than re-record
this is actually a really common pattern in english! think about words like "ascension" - you probably don't pronounce it like "assen-see-un", you probably pronounce it like "assen-shun" or "assen-chun". the word "enunciate" is having the same thing happen to it currently!
VIDEO ESSAY VOICE IS A PLAGUE ON HUMANITY seeing a video essay on a topic that’s right up your alley and then starting to watch only to find out that they have the most insufferable voice known to man is one of the worst experiences someone can go through
oh it's the voice equivalent of opening a fanfiction and realising it's written in 1st person POV 🙁 (the solution to this is to post a link in the description to the word file of the essay so i can read it instead)
I don’t think I have ever heard voices like those in vide essays…. Maybe recently with younger people because they’re commenting about stuff from Tik Tok
yeah i know that you mean. there's quite a few video essayists whose content i find genuinely engaging and interesting, who i genuinely want to watch, but their specific choice of essayist cadence and tone makes it insanely hard to get through and sometimes i can get past that and other times i stop watching a video essay i'm truly otherwise engaged with the content and sentiment of because their voice is just intolerable even though i tried to overlook this because i really want to hear what they have to say about a topic.
Also, I genuinely don't understand how some people just let the audio go on repeat while looking at the comments or something, it is incredibly annoying to me
Me too 😅 but the one I dislike the most is a voice with too much vocal fry and the sentences sound like they're always asking a question. I don't know why though.
this is really similar to the Tumblr writing style of the early 2010s, like you can tell if someone used Tumblr by the way they punctuate and Capitalize Things
I don't watch beauty bloggers often but I started to notice that they all speak and react the same exact way about every single thing. Same exaggerated expressions, same high pitch tones. It's nightmare fuel.
I used to watch Youkeyy (she didnt post for the last two years sadly) and she always had this really chill, relaxed and velvety voice, showing the cosmetics but also just chatting She was so great
What's interesting to me is the possibility of regional accents possibly disappearing. Maybe because of how online the world is, people from might Newcastle start to sound similar to people from London. Or people from Alabama might sound similar to people from Colorado. It's not happened yet, but I could see it happening. I don't have my natural accent anymore. That's more from moving around as I got older, but I could see the internet having a similar effect.
It's definitely something that's already happening. There are quite a few distinct regional and cultural accents in the area I live, and I've noticed it's really rare to hear anyone below the age of 20 with one, and in general, I only ever hear really strong regional accents among the older generations. I've been deliberately trying to hold onto my own regional accent, but it's getting to the point where I hear it so rarely (since the younger generations aren't developing it, and everyone who grew up there's being priced out of the region) that it feels like I'm just doing a caricature of my own accent.
This is literally already happening to Portuguese people, their children are growing up speaking Brazilian dialect because of Brazilians on social media
We have something called the Rocky Mountain accent in Colorado, but there are less popular ones as well that are thriving. There's a Hispanic accent in the south that isn't as well-known, and it's a mixture of a New Mexican accent and the more popular Chicano Mexican-American accent that can be found throughout the southwest and in specific hubs like Chicago (but this Spanglish is more English than Spanish). I surprisingly do not have it, but I do use slang that pertains to eastern Colorado. A lot of people in this area listen to country music so there's a slight Texas accent added, but it's mainly among whites and white Hispanics. I think the Chicano accent isn't fading like other American accents because there's more ethnic pride among this population. Speaking more than one language cements it better, in my opinion. Multilingual people usually sound more interesting. Americans that only speak English tend to pick up a globalist "non-accent" of some kind.
@@Nikx-youtubewell if we saw humans in their natural habitat we'd probably be pretty interesting A gorilla in a zoo is sadder than a gorilla in the wild
The most distinctive one for me is the “trying to sound calming” voice. Not ASMR but kind of ASMR-adjacent. There’s a TikTok creator who sews, makes a lot of corseted gowns, he is probably the best example but I can’t remember his name. If anyone knows who I’m talking about please let me know
The uptalk? sort of sounds like there's a question for you, or an uncertainty in the speaker- it's the point in a real conversation where the listener would nod their head and say "mm" to confirm they're still following/listening, so it's a way for the influencer to make you (subconsciously) feel like you're being drawn into a conversation and bring back your focus and ensure you're still listening. In small doses it's effective and gives a cosy "just chatting" vibe, but it's become more and more a thing among social media influencers to use it on basically every single sentence, which has the effect of making them instead seem like they're parents talking to children, trying to keep a little kid focused and on task by making them feel like they're agreeing with what's being told to them due to the tone being lightly questioning, but positive. like "We're gonna go to the park? and then we'll do our playtime and have a snack? and then when we come home, we're gonna have our bath and read a story with mama?" "yeah! :D"
Uptalk is at least 50 years old - still annoying. The character Lucy (police station secretary) in Twin Peaks had an amazing rising inflection but uptalk was around years before that, at least in Australia.
Internet voice to me is the Dan Howell British TH-camr of the mid 2010s voice and it genuinely rewired the way I spoke as a 14 year old. My accent went and Dan’s replaced it, truly
When Benedict was mimicking the overly-excited TH-camr voice, all I could hear was Phil. I learnt a lot of English through watching Dan and Phil as a teenager and now I'm wondering how much of the way I talk in English has been influenced by Dan and Phil's TH-camr voices
Media has always had accents for certain things like, the trans atlantic accent during early onset of films and television. News anchors also have an accent. It's just a part of modern media and the new medium is social this time around.
That first British girl sounds crazy. I feel sorry this young generation right now who have their embarrassing teen phases documented on the internet forever.
I think Millenials and Gen Z have grown up with so much exposure to American media via the internet that a lot of slang and Americanisms and especially AAVE slang has integrated into everyday speech
I think social media has just globalized what were previously regional dialects, so they’ve become much more common (to our collective dismay in some cases)
As an Australian Ive noticed the Aussie influencer and tik tik people have started to accentuate the 'naur' sound since that has become a thing. They sound like Kath and Kim, a sitcom from the early 2000's about bogan middle aged women.
I'm from Zambia & I was commenting to my wife how all our local TikTokers talk the same way, like it's so freaky & you've just given me the perfect words to categorize it as TikTok Accents. I loved the breakdown
I think I'm guilty up talk a little bit and I live in Oregon so now you've got me dissecting every sentence I say hahaha. I definitely don't do it all the time but I think I do it sometimes, and it's always in situations where I am trying to get people to agree with me or think that I am an agreeable person. I've heard myself doing it... 😬
The surprise dune reference got me to laugh out loud, well done. Also 4:27 is insane because he's talking about how this accent makes it easier for him to enunciate as he stumbles over the word "enunciate." My dude. Does it really help you? Or do you just think it makes you sound more official because of internet trends?
The Uptalk is very similar to the Australian accent (I'm Aussie) with the going up at the end of the sentence. Someone else mentioned News readers, but I would also say Morning Radioshow Announcers. I swear they could swap any drive time announcers around and no one would notice.
Yeah. I actually just commented that I recognized that accent (also called High Rising Terminal, High Rising Intonation, or Upspeak) as an Australian thing. I watched pretty much all of the seasons of Australian Biggest Loser and noticed that it was a common accent among the contestants.
6:36 You really hit on something here. A lot of the videos where someone is voicing over something always sound like they're hiding in their closet and don't wanna be too loud while recording.
Also early youtubers were excited to be online, now everyone is jaded or pretending to be. Too much bad news - to be excited and joyful about anything is potentially embarrassing (cringeworthy) so let's all be preemptively deadpan.
im a very british boy but i say 'about it' like abahded (like an american) and i also do a lot of uptalk whenever i send voicenotes and its such a modern day tragedy but its also funny
It's so interesting as an American in the UK. All the Brits make fun of my American accent and all of the Americans make fun of my "British accent". It doesn't happen to everyone: some people are more prone to "adopting" similar accent-isms. It also depends on the environment you are currently in whether you will speak a certain way. If I'm on a call with friends and family, they hear an accent. However, if I'm in America, that "accent" they hear is gone. Similarly, my husband speaks more "Americanized" to me, but to others, he's way more British. When it comes to things like TikTok, I think it falls similar to the way that news reporters speak a certain way. I think these things are usually only situational, as in, they don't speak that way in normal life. However, there will be a "bleed" into normal life that can be heard, and will seem quite jarring if picked up on. Accents are funny little things!
My dad and I have the same thing, we have a very vague and general accent so we get asked where we’re from very often. But our accents and the way we talk also changes when we’re around other people who have accents. And funnily enough, lots of people say they can understand us easier than people with typical British accents.
The Uptalk accent is pretty common with TH-camrs as well. I was quite shocked when that accent was mentioned and I immediately realized that I have it, mixed with a little bit of the Let's Play TH-camr accent, mostly because I learned speaking in English from watching and creating TH-cam videos.
I saw a TH-camr recently whose accent I was having trouble placing. It turns out she’s Australian. But her accent was really… something different. And I think this video answered it… she had some Americanization aspects to her accent. I thought she sounded sort of Canadian, sort of Minnesotan, and then there was the bit of Australia that increased as her video progressed.
Dude i have never heard you before. I searched up "tiktok accent" because it had been infuriating for like the past year every time i open up youtube with those guys who will say "Mysterious Eartg part number 2; this man got trapped in a box, and youll never guess what he did to get out" i kept trying to explain to people that there is definitely an accent/cadence that youtubers/tiktokers speak in to try and retain you and i just feel absurdly aggressive about it. Kinda like the way you feel when the sound of someone smacking their food and chewing with their mouth open while breathing heavy. All in all, thank you for this. I feel much better. But now i expect people will start copying you and covering this topic. And now im wishing that wouldve covered it in like 2020 when i noticed it lol.
Seriously - every single one of them! Who was the first, and who the the first to copy it and get that ball rolling, because I believe I'm entitled to compensation for all the trauma it's caused when mindlessly scrolling!
Same!! He perfectly summarized all those things which were vaguely annoying me, but I couldn't give them any names or descriptions. As a foreigner, I used to assume that maybe it's something that Americans do and it shouldn't drive me mad the way it does. But now that I know it all is just TikTok things, I feel so validated. I even went through some kind of emotional catharsis when he brought up that "mouse" gesture. I'm both extremely irritated and somewhat hypnotized by the way women clench those long acrylic nails of theirs. Christ! Uptalk + nails = I can barely focus on anything they say.
@angrybirdie999 yeah it's not an American thing but our youth is basically getting raised by Tiktok instead of the parents and you can already see it spreading like a virus. Non of them can see it and the parents think it's harmless but it's intentional, I mean, look who owns it :/ if you really wanted to dumb down a generation to come in so many ways, this is the new propaganda and Americans are so niave and malleable to it.
@@angrybirdie999I seriously thought I was alone in my frustration about this silly talk and clacking nails! Now they have started to tap stiff with those plastic nails and it’s making my skin crawl
My least favorite is s falsely positive, trendy, I'm cool voice while saying something like "My parents just got divorced," usually accompanied by some form of Tik Tok dance or hand motion.
I think that's because the stories they tell all sound like something written by poorly-programmed AI. They're the boy version of those cleaning TikToks where a woman narrator will tell you the most outlandish, disgusting trauma someone supposedly endured while scraping a decade of grease and crumbs off a stovetop. "Follow for more! 🤪"
I'm going to sound like a bitter old man here. I never have, never will, download, install, open, use or watch TikTok. For MANY of the reasons you cover here. I won't bore anyone with all the ways I dislike it or the culture surrounding it. I just wanted to say your video was really great and makes me even happier with my decision. Loved the vid. Subbed.
That is because our attention spans are not short enough for it, from what I seen it is for hyperactive kids maybe all the kids are hyperactive these days? :)
@@TC-ku4vv There was a time when TH-cam was utterly insufferable though, even as a young person. Now it's evolved, most people can find something that appeals to them, but at one point in time it was just teenage boys doing questionable things.
This is so interesting! I've been making content for about 15 years now and I have a very strong yorkshire accent and no one could understand me so I started kind of dulling the accent for content, but now it's bled into my real life and I have this weird mix of general uk/yorkshire/american accent now!! :(
Heh, thanks for this. As an early Gen-Xer, quite tired and cranky and social media except youtube I found your video reassuring. I don't have IG or Tiktok at all but I get glimpses of content from there through YT videos. The 'accents', but mostly the hand gestures, drive me bonkers! I come from the Mediterranean. We speak with our hands so I'm no stranger to gesturing but these 'influency' ones - I can't. I feel a bit better to know that it's not (just) my ancient brain that views these things as unusual and annoying. Phew and thanks again.
This phenomenon has actually been studied by linguists. I've read about it. They determined this is how humans behave in social groups and identifying with each other, speaking alike.
Wow, a web platform somehow has its own version of Atlantic American English. If this means we can all start using BBC English on TH-cam, I'm all for it. UK kids have been growing up having American twinges to their accent since the 1990s at least.
I don’t have TikTok so this is weird 😂 Living in California, I feel like these TikTok voices and mannerisms have been the way people have communicated here for at least the last 10-15 years, it’s super interesting to see how it’s spread. Unless a lot of states/countries have a sect of their population who talks like this, but I kind of doubt that. 😊
Benedict I agree with every single thing you said in this video. It's so refreshing to hear someone intelligent give witty and analytical takes on something whilst being funny. I'm a bit tired of people molly coddling and walking on eggshells so much that everything goes through a filter, it's so refreshing to hear someone say "I find this thing annoying" why is that so rare now 😂 Love this channel and agree you definitely all deserve way more success with this channel 🤗
I would also add in the tiktok "cooks" who just throw their ingredients all over the place to make a loud a slap as possible and to this day I still do not get it.
I feel like the way TikTok language evolved is similar to how texting language evolved (ie "hey" vs "heyy..." being very different). It came out of a need to express a point through a new format but make it understandable as though you were talking to a person face to face. Since you have less time in a tiktok before the person scrolls, your tone and hand gestures have to add to the information, so that the words can be short and sweet and to the point
I used to talk about this all the time and point it out to people and no one really realized it till I said something. Especially on those videos that talk about “hidden gems” or some cool spot in the city. Im glad other people are starting to talk about it
The uptalk part is tricky cause it's ALSO just the way Canadians talk 😅Or as some people say the "canadian lift" or "canadian rising". So it's been annoying to have my speaking patterns criticized when it's just how I've always talked. 😂
I’ve noticed that more and more people are pronouncing the hard g in words that end with “-ing”, so it sounds like “sing-guh” “wrong-guh” “long-guh”. I LOATHE it. It makes me want to seclude myself in a mountain cave where I can’t hear anyone talk weirdly ever again.
I don't know WHAT it is but for some reason people cant just say "ing" normally It's always "talk-eenkh" or "walk-eenkh" or my most hated: "talkeen" "walkeen" Amberlynn Reid does this all the time and it drives me fuckeen CRAZY
I honestly thought this was clickbait but gave it a shot because I love linguistics and was not expecting it to be so interesting and hilarious! Thank you
March 2024 must be Tim Follin Awareness Month -- been a fan of his work since Equinox (SNES) and all these bangers keep surfacing. Great job, love the instrumentation and that beefy prog tone!
The uptalk has translated into a lot of day to day convos out in the wild and I can’t stand it, to the point where I tell the other person not every statement is a question.
My housemate has a tiktok accent, it drives me insane. But other examples are radio voice, TV voice, audiobook voice, the transatlantic accent, etc. This isn't a new phenomenon but it's possible that this the first time it's so widespread.
I think older millennials are immune to the apparent hypnotic effects of TikTok accents. Whenever someone talks using these techniques, I immediately move on, because to me it means they have nothing to say.
That feminine ai voice from tick tock that uses incorrect inflections bugs me so bad
I loathe that one! And the ones that say Beyoncé or Kanye or any famous name incorrectly. Drives me insane.
I literally skip every single video that uses it, it triggers a primal rage in me
I don't do tick tock or however you spell it most everyone i watch on YT seems pretty genuine
100% agree! It's like this snotty, inarticulate girl AI voice and I can't stand it!
@@ElectraRay21 yes, they sure do seem that way. don't they?
"Your spaghetti couldn't wait 2 minutes while you tell me that the orange peel is your roman empire" i completely lost it
I let out a truly heinous cackle at that sentence. 😂
He says "spagheddi"... He has a slightly Americanised 'internet voice'
I hate watching people eat 😝
our pfps are similar :D
Uptake just makes me angry. Get to the point already! 2:21
The "bored influencer" voice taking a huge dramatic breath after a few words like they just ran up a flight of stairs cracks me up 😆
They're always trying to create a fake sense of urgency with their voice to keep people watching.
I completely noticed this and was just thinking about this the other day. It wasn’t tiktok I found it on but I was watching makeup reviews of products I was curious about and I noticed most of them did this thing where they would “ramble, ramble, ramble, ramble…*DEEP BREATH* …uptalk while sighing the last word of the sentence.” People from all over the world are doing it lol. I’m so glad I’m not the only one who noticed because after a while it got so annoying to me. That one girl Natalya nailed it lol (she’s doing a parody)
Yeah it's like, "I'm so hot that I take my breath away". I can't stand it honestly, so I stay away from tik tok.
I TALK LIKE THAT
I don't even use tiktok but for some reason I have acquired somewhat of a Kardashian voice after the pandemic
And also the hands but I think a part of that is how long my nails always are
@@barbarabelloniwell please stop 😭😭
“When I talk like this it’s pretty easy to E-NUCH-E-ATE.”
The painful irony of mispronouncing "enunciate." 🤦🏼♀️😭
hahaha, I came here looking for this comment 😂
i laughed so hard at that
@@earlyso_music Me too! I knew I wasn't the only one who caught that.
@@earlyso_musicsame
a bigger epidemic is male podcast voice
IKR!!! They think they're doing God's work 😂
😂🤣
"It seems my superiority has led to some controversy"
No women feminist on tiktok voices
Yes lol
I think the sort of “mouse hand” thing started with women with long acrylic nails, I noticed in like 2020/2021 or something there was this sort of mini trend of women with long acrylic nails doing things like tapping the camera with their nails to get the viewers’ attention or other things to emphasize their nails clacking when speaking, when they make that sort of pinching motion their nails make a clacking sound that some people find really satisfying which serves to punctuate their sentences or emphasize certain words, I think people saw this and liked it so they started doing it subconsciously because of that even if they themselves don’t wear big acrylic nails
there’s something to this bc the moment he showed the mouse hands I immediately associated long nails
This! It’s been driving me mad how young people online use their hands and fingers when they talk, I can’t stand it! You’ve explained it so well 😂
Yes!! Even just painting my nails changes how I use my hands for like 2 days. Long acrylics change how you use your hands.
Yes, absolutely. I'm a cosmetologist and I've long associated that kind of hand posture body language with acrylic nail wearers. It goes way back.
That MUST be it. The super long nail trend is ergh annoying.
I initially subscribed for silly little youtube stories and now we're getting borderline dissertations on the recent transformation of linguistic trends across the globe. What a fascinating evolution, 10/10 no notes.
real
🙏🙏🙏
It seems less like an accent and more like a style kinda like calling a radio announcer voice an accent when it’s more a style, like when they all say in a big radio voice “You’re listening to WKZB chicagos #1 radio station!” Using that type of voice on radio is more a style rather than an accent
@nicholas1611 that announcer voice is called the mid Atlantic English accent
@@TwistedRootsMelodyI’m referring to the big voice radio trope that’s heavily memed, car dealership commercials and radio announcers use it all the time where they use a big male radio voice. Its different from the mid Atlantic accent used in mid century American productions where it’s normal speaking, I’m talking about the big radio voice that’s found in car dealership ads, radio station identifications “YOU’RE LISTENING TO WJZV, PORTLANDS NUMEBR #1 jazz station!” more associated with radio jockeys
Is that called the mid century accent? I thought the big radio voice was different from the mid Atlantic
That one guy who was explaining how he puts on an accent because it's easier to enunciate mispronounced "enunciate" while explaining it using the accent.
i noticed that too. such exquisite irony...
And he doesn't enunciate well at all...
He’s obvs Italian. E-nun-chee-ate
I think there's this weird thing where TikTok is going through all the trends TH-cam did, but at a really accelerated pace, and that that's why the TH-cam accent that developed over like a decade is all over TikTok after just a few years
that’s super interesting, do you know any examples?
@@maya-mu3ce first person who invented the influencer speak imo is Jojo Siwa’s fast paced, “HEY What’s Up YOu GuyS!” then popularized by Mr. Beast and other Logan Paul adjacent Viners/TH-camrs. This bled into other platforms and now we have the different TikTok Accents & Gestures.
Also ending sentences with” and , so…Yeah!”
@@icu3869 Basically, a lot of what we know as social media accents stem from California accents lol.
Ye
“it’s pretty easy to ‘annunchiate’ everything” ok sure
That guy’s voice was the worst out of all the examples given 😡
Schwa, the uh sound, is very common in many North American accents as well as some anglophone English accents, notably some Scottish accents. Many speakers will use a schwa in unstressed syllables (for instance, both As in "America"). So uh-NUNciate is a valid pronunciation. And I assume the "ch" was an accident that he left in rather than re-record
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@@hellomello258 There was nothing wrong with the "nun" part, it was the "ch" that was aggravating.
this is actually a really common pattern in english! think about words like "ascension" - you probably don't pronounce it like "assen-see-un", you probably pronounce it like "assen-shun" or "assen-chun". the word "enunciate" is having the same thing happen to it currently!
VIDEO ESSAY VOICE IS A PLAGUE ON HUMANITY
seeing a video essay on a topic that’s right up your alley and then starting to watch only to find out that they have the most insufferable voice known to man is one of the worst experiences someone can go through
oh it's the voice equivalent of opening a fanfiction and realising it's written in 1st person POV 🙁 (the solution to this is to post a link in the description to the word file of the essay so i can read it instead)
@@lilacsrain6004 what's wrong with 1st person pov🤒
Or you cant get through the video essay because the voice puts you right to sleep😂
I don’t think I have ever heard voices like those in vide essays…. Maybe recently with younger people because they’re commenting about stuff from Tik Tok
yeah i know that you mean. there's quite a few video essayists whose content i find genuinely engaging and interesting, who i genuinely want to watch, but their specific choice of essayist cadence and tone makes it insanely hard to get through and sometimes i can get past that and other times i stop watching a video essay i'm truly otherwise engaged with the content and sentiment of because their voice is just intolerable even though i tried to overlook this because i really want to hear what they have to say about a topic.
so many of the tiktok accents trigger my misophonia so bad i cannot watch people talk or i feel like throwing things at the wall
As a fellow Misophonia sufferer, YES I feel this 1000% it genuinely makes me so angry
I thought I was the only one dealing with that lol
Also, I genuinely don't understand how some people just let the audio go on repeat while looking at the comments or something, it is incredibly annoying to me
yea i cant watch some commentary vids for example bcs the way ppl speak is just so irritating
Me too 😅 but the one I dislike
the most is a voice with too much
vocal fry and the sentences sound
like they're always asking a question.
I don't know why though.
this is really similar to the Tumblr writing style of the early 2010s, like you can tell if someone used Tumblr by the way they punctuate and Capitalize Things
omfg,, I feel Attacked
imho, in 2010 if you refused to use capitalization at the beginning of a sentence it was clear sign of tumblr kid. gpoy 😂
@@faerietoast jfc i havent seen anyone use "gpoy" in like 10 years wtaf
I have to inform you that tumblr writing style is pretty much still the same now in 2024
@@faerietoastgpoy! Wow that’s a fossil 😂
The vocal fry + up talk combo is THE DEVILS CREATION
YEEEES
it is, and I'm tired of pretending it's sexist to think so. I hate it equally in women and men
@@ThinWhiteAxe fr its even MORE annoying with men XD
😂
Imo everyone talks differently and that's fine.
I don't watch beauty bloggers often but I started to notice that they all speak and react the same exact way about every single thing. Same exaggerated expressions, same high pitch tones. It's nightmare fuel.
Also some TH-camrs they have that same annoying voice. Like stop talking like that🎅🏻
I used to watch Youkeyy (she didnt post for the last two years sadly) and she always had this really chill, relaxed and velvety voice, showing the cosmetics but also just chatting
She was so great
And they all start their videos the same way. "What's up, TH-camrs? Smash that like button." Oy, Vey. @@sokawai5
Pick-me girl internalized misogyny is what I got out of that.
That’s why I can’t watch them.
What's interesting to me is the possibility of regional accents possibly disappearing. Maybe because of how online the world is, people from might Newcastle start to sound similar to people from London. Or people from Alabama might sound similar to people from Colorado. It's not happened yet, but I could see it happening. I don't have my natural accent anymore. That's more from moving around as I got older, but I could see the internet having a similar effect.
It's definitely something that's already happening. There are quite a few distinct regional and cultural accents in the area I live, and I've noticed it's really rare to hear anyone below the age of 20 with one, and in general, I only ever hear really strong regional accents among the older generations. I've been deliberately trying to hold onto my own regional accent, but it's getting to the point where I hear it so rarely (since the younger generations aren't developing it, and everyone who grew up there's being priced out of the region) that it feels like I'm just doing a caricature of my own accent.
it's definitely happening. in southern US - you can somewhat predict what kind of content kids grew up watching by how heavy their accents are.
This is literally already happening to Portuguese people, their children are growing up speaking Brazilian dialect because of Brazilians on social media
We have something called the Rocky Mountain accent in Colorado, but there are less popular ones as well that are thriving. There's a Hispanic accent in the south that isn't as well-known, and it's a mixture of a New Mexican accent and the more popular Chicano Mexican-American accent that can be found throughout the southwest and in specific hubs like Chicago (but this Spanglish is more English than Spanish). I surprisingly do not have it, but I do use slang that pertains to eastern Colorado. A lot of people in this area listen to country music so there's a slight Texas accent added, but it's mainly among whites and white Hispanics.
I think the Chicano accent isn't fading like other American accents because there's more ethnic pride among this population. Speaking more than one language cements it better, in my opinion. Multilingual people usually sound more interesting. Americans that only speak English tend to pick up a globalist "non-accent" of some kind.
That is a great observation!
we humans are so fascinating
I’m surprised no one replied to this comment yet
Not really
@@gas-lyghtchristianson-ashl5041 what makes you say that? there's a lot to learn about the human psyche.
Were actually a surprisingly depressing species
@@Nikx-youtubewell if we saw humans in their natural habitat we'd probably be pretty interesting
A gorilla in a zoo is sadder than a gorilla in the wild
The most distinctive one for me is the “trying to sound calming” voice. Not ASMR but kind of ASMR-adjacent. There’s a TikTok creator who sews, makes a lot of corseted gowns, he is probably the best example but I can’t remember his name. If anyone knows who I’m talking about please let me know
Gunnar Deatherage and TheOliviasaurusrex
those are quite annoying :
@@racheldawn_7 I have to say, I DO love Gunner Deathrage!
i actually kind of like those bc i also like asmr lol
ASMR how pretentious you mean trance or hypnotic like.
It's the new news anchor voice!
Came here to say the same thing 😂
Huh
@@fitog5202 news anchors are trained to talk a certain way.
The news reporter has d’TAILS.
Yes! This is what I wanted to say!
The uptalk? sort of sounds like there's a question for you, or an uncertainty in the speaker- it's the point in a real conversation where the listener would nod their head and say "mm" to confirm they're still following/listening, so it's a way for the influencer to make you (subconsciously) feel like you're being drawn into a conversation and bring back your focus and ensure you're still listening.
In small doses it's effective and gives a cosy "just chatting" vibe, but it's become more and more a thing among social media influencers to use it on basically every single sentence, which has the effect of making them instead seem like they're parents talking to children, trying to keep a little kid focused and on task by making them feel like they're agreeing with what's being told to them due to the tone being lightly questioning, but positive. like "We're gonna go to the park? and then we'll do our playtime and have a snack? and then when we come home, we're gonna have our bath and read a story with mama?" "yeah! :D"
Uptalk is at least 50 years old - still annoying. The character Lucy (police station secretary) in Twin Peaks had an amazing rising inflection but uptalk was around years before that, at least in Australia.
genuinely so impressed by all of Benedict's accents in this, he did all of them so well 😂
no the south african one was so bad 😂
@@MiaVorsterthat's how English people think we speak! Either that or the Australian accent😂
@@GenericUsername1388 u might not speak like that but the ones on tiktok def do
@@MiaVorster Yeah it was terrible. I'm from SA and I barely recognised it! 😂
This got me thinking of all the internet accents, I think my favorite is the strange dark and mysterious voice people use for true crime and stuff lol
Internet voice to me is the Dan Howell British TH-camr of the mid 2010s voice and it genuinely rewired the way I spoke as a 14 year old. My accent went and Dan’s replaced it, truly
Hi Phannie in the wild!
relatable
When Benedict was mimicking the overly-excited TH-camr voice, all I could hear was Phil. I learnt a lot of English through watching Dan and Phil as a teenager and now I'm wondering how much of the way I talk in English has been influenced by Dan and Phil's TH-camr voices
I still copy Jenna Marbles sometimes lol
Media has always had accents for certain things like, the trans atlantic accent during early onset of films and television. News anchors also have an accent. It's just a part of modern media and the new medium is social this time around.
Ehhh not exactly
news anchors tend to speak with a non regional dialect
Different in the UK I think. Also in the UK eg.the news media made a noticeable move to more accent diversity over the last 2 decades.
News readers have a certain intonation and vocal stress rather than an accent per se.
4:25 it's giving burger king foot lettuce
The low number of likes and (no) comments(?) makes me sad that hardly anyone understands that or remembers it anymore.
@@Khaleesi_JackI'll never forget number 15
LITERALLY MY THOUGHTS
@@melitajay the last thing you want in your burger king burger is someone's foot fungus...but as it turns out, that might be what you gaet
I was scrolling the comments to see if anyone else noticed burger king foot lettuce.
That first British girl sounds crazy. I feel sorry this young generation right now who have their embarrassing teen phases documented on the internet forever.
I think Millenials and Gen Z have grown up with so much exposure to American media via the internet that a lot of slang and Americanisms and especially AAVE slang has integrated into everyday speech
Some of these accents pre-date TikTok influencers so this is just a rebranding
Right, being from California all these sound normal to me lol. It’s definitely a rebranding or a mix kind of of popular existing accents.
@shoesinmysoupyeah the world is pretty much copying Californian accents bc of social media
Uptalking has unfortunately? existed? since like? forever?
I think social media has just globalized what were previously regional dialects, so they’ve become much more common (to our collective dismay in some cases)
@@lindabalinda7887kinda like "gen-z slang being just AAVE
As an Australian Ive noticed the Aussie influencer and tik tik people have started to accentuate the 'naur' sound since that has become a thing. They sound like Kath and Kim, a sitcom from the early 2000's about bogan middle aged women.
Yeh it’s funny cause arguably i reckon aussies say nahh more than naur but I guess content creators give people what they want to hear
I love Kath and Kim 😩❤️
Aur naurrr, why wourd they dour tha?
I try to tell my American friends that Aussies don't sound like that, and they just shout back 'VEGEMOOOITE!'
@@Dontstopbelievingman Based.
It was your minecraft youtuber accent for me 😂
Today we‘re looking for slimes
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Yes, that one had me rolling😂
Sounded just like goblin420
Sounded like popularmmos
Dude I remember back in 2013 when I would rehearse my intros in the mirror XD
Basically humans are so manipulatable, just subtle strategies like "up-talk" can keep a person hung onto your words just abit longer
The Dune reference and delivery was perfect. I was not ready hahaha
I'm from Zambia & I was commenting to my wife how all our local TikTokers talk the same way, like it's so freaky & you've just given me the perfect words to categorize it as TikTok Accents.
I loved the breakdown
Interesting perspective. Thanks for sharing
to me it feels like the 'gamer guy voice' is just a version of the chills accent
While I can't hear a relation between the two personally, I'm so glad someone finally brought up the chills accent in these comments.
@@jadedsurrealism look up the zesty biker guy. He has that accent
Uptalk is just a vally/suburban accent. Pretty common in the pacific Northwest. Most people from cali, oregon and Washington talk like that
I’m from California and I sound nothing like that
West coasters pronounce their “r”s somewhere between their teeth and their cheeks.
I think I'm guilty up talk a little bit and I live in Oregon so now you've got me dissecting every sentence I say hahaha. I definitely don't do it all the time but I think I do it sometimes, and it's always in situations where I am trying to get people to agree with me or think that I am an agreeable person. I've heard myself doing it... 😬
Also we never say cali @@myturn2runit
@@your3kidding I never said that
That was literally the most russian south african accent Ive ever heard in my life
I heard it thrice before I figured he was trying to go for an Afrikaaner accent.
WaterTok is for people who love liquid candy that has water as one ingredient. But they insist on calling it “water”.
Oh dear, and here I was assuming that it was just HydroHomies for TikTok.
It's like if I drank pepsi all day and called it water, except pepsi is probably better for you than those monstrous creations
Most underrated channel on TH-cam
and podcast
The surprise dune reference got me to laugh out loud, well done.
Also 4:27 is insane because he's talking about how this accent makes it easier for him to enunciate as he stumbles over the word "enunciate."
My dude. Does it really help you? Or do you just think it makes you sound more official because of internet trends?
4:26 to be more precise*
The Uptalk is very similar to the Australian accent (I'm Aussie) with the going up at the end of the sentence.
Someone else mentioned News readers, but I would also say Morning Radioshow Announcers. I swear they could swap any drive time announcers around and no one would notice.
People use uptalk in NZ too!!
It's also known as High Rising Tone and is a documented feature of some accents of the region
Ooh interesting, we have a similar thing in Canada that people call the ‘Canadian Rise’
Yeah. I actually just commented that I recognized that accent (also called High Rising Terminal, High Rising Intonation, or Upspeak) as an Australian thing. I watched pretty much all of the seasons of Australian Biggest Loser and noticed that it was a common accent among the contestants.
so that's why the host sounded Australian when doing the upttalk
6:36 You really hit on something here. A lot of the videos where someone is voicing over something always sound like they're hiding in their closet and don't wanna be too loud while recording.
Also early youtubers were excited to be online, now everyone is jaded or pretending to be. Too much bad news - to be excited and joyful about anything is potentially embarrassing (cringeworthy) so let's all be preemptively deadpan.
“Trader joesss did not have any parking spotsss” 😂😭😭
They never do.
Love her.
How hilarious he said enunshiate. It's crazy how little mastery people have over the language they've spoken their entire life.
im a very british boy but i say 'about it' like abahded (like an american) and i also do a lot of uptalk whenever i send voicenotes and its such a modern day tragedy but its also funny
Stop it immediately
Too late for him.@@BlowinFree
It's so interesting as an American in the UK. All the Brits make fun of my American accent and all of the Americans make fun of my "British accent".
It doesn't happen to everyone: some people are more prone to "adopting" similar accent-isms. It also depends on the environment you are currently in whether you will speak a certain way. If I'm on a call with friends and family, they hear an accent. However, if I'm in America, that "accent" they hear is gone. Similarly, my husband speaks more "Americanized" to me, but to others, he's way more British.
When it comes to things like TikTok, I think it falls similar to the way that news reporters speak a certain way.
I think these things are usually only situational, as in, they don't speak that way in normal life. However, there will be a "bleed" into normal life that can be heard, and will seem quite jarring if picked up on.
Accents are funny little things!
You could have the Transatlantic accent which some people mistake as British, old movies like from the 40's and 50's people spoke like that.
I find in America it's a defense mechanism, since they can't understand your accent, you end up using theirs rather than repeat yourself ten times.
My dad and I have the same thing, we have a very vague and general accent so we get asked where we’re from very often. But our accents and the way we talk also changes when we’re around other people who have accents. And funnily enough, lots of people say they can understand us easier than people with typical British accents.
The Uptalk accent is pretty common with TH-camrs as well. I was quite shocked when that accent was mentioned and I immediately realized that I have it, mixed with a little bit of the Let's Play TH-camr accent, mostly because I learned speaking in English from watching and creating TH-cam videos.
This was a thing in hollywood too. During the 'silver screen' era, there was a specific accent that actors had to adapt for all the movies.
Transatlantic accent you mean, you can look it up lots of TH-cam videos on that.
4:13 No that’s the Chillz accent. Believe it or not, that’s ACTUALLY how he speaks. And it blew up and he forever lives as a meme because of it.
I saw a TH-camr recently whose accent I was having trouble placing. It turns out she’s Australian. But her accent was really… something different. And I think this video answered it… she had some Americanization aspects to her accent. I thought she sounded sort of Canadian, sort of Minnesotan, and then there was the bit of Australia that increased as her video progressed.
A lot of younger Australians are getting a more Americanised accent. It’s most prominent in people from Sydney.
The australian accent is slowly dissapearing, at least in the cities.
Noah Glenncarter be talking like he about to tell me the “top 5 most dangerous waterslides in the world”
Dude i have never heard you before. I searched up "tiktok accent" because it had been infuriating for like the past year every time i open up youtube with those guys who will say "Mysterious Eartg part number 2; this man got trapped in a box, and youll never guess what he did to get out" i kept trying to explain to people that there is definitely an accent/cadence that youtubers/tiktokers speak in to try and retain you and i just feel absurdly aggressive about it. Kinda like the way you feel when the sound of someone smacking their food and chewing with their mouth open while breathing heavy.
All in all, thank you for this. I feel much better. But now i expect people will start copying you and covering this topic. And now im wishing that wouldve covered it in like 2020 when i noticed it lol.
Seriously - every single one of them! Who was the first, and who the the first to copy it and get that ball rolling, because I believe I'm entitled to compensation for all the trauma it's caused when mindlessly scrolling!
@@GSutton It truly is infuriating.
Same!! He perfectly summarized all those things which were vaguely annoying me, but I couldn't give them any names or descriptions. As a foreigner, I used to assume that maybe it's something that Americans do and it shouldn't drive me mad the way it does. But now that I know it all is just TikTok things, I feel so validated. I even went through some kind of emotional catharsis when he brought up that "mouse" gesture. I'm both extremely irritated and somewhat hypnotized by the way women clench those long acrylic nails of theirs. Christ! Uptalk + nails = I can barely focus on anything they say.
@angrybirdie999 yeah it's not an American thing but our youth is basically getting raised by Tiktok instead of the parents and you can already see it spreading like a virus. Non of them can see it and the parents think it's harmless but it's intentional, I mean, look who owns it :/ if you really wanted to dumb down a generation to come in so many ways, this is the new propaganda and Americans are so niave and malleable to it.
@@angrybirdie999I seriously thought I was alone in my frustration about this silly talk and clacking nails! Now they have started to tap stiff with those plastic nails and it’s making my skin crawl
7:24 duuuude the Mr Beast is so perfect.
I never thought about it but “mid sentence” so beautifully captures the madness!
Tapping sponsored products with long manicured nails is honestly it's own accent to me.
😭
My least favorite is s falsely positive, trendy, I'm cool voice while saying something like "My parents just got divorced," usually accompanied by some form of Tik Tok dance or hand motion.
i call it italian appropriation 🤌🤌
Sul serio 🙄
@@4evrmind its a joke man, unclench
And argentinian , how dare they you need insane levels of economic crises to be worthy of the gestures
@@olliewithane6933 I was joking too🤨 “sul serio” means “for real”
@@4evrmind I'm sorry, my phone translated it to "seriously" and with the emoji it looked like you were annoyed by the OP, but now it makes sense.
3:52 I keep hearing the NoahGlennCarter voice freaking EVERYWHEREEEE on so many different channels!!! I keep thinking it’s an AI voice or something
I think that's because the stories they tell all sound like something written by poorly-programmed AI.
They're the boy version of those cleaning TikToks where a woman narrator will tell you the most outlandish, disgusting trauma someone supposedly endured while scraping a decade of grease and crumbs off a stovetop. "Follow for more! 🤪"
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I'm going to sound like a bitter old man here. I never have, never will, download, install, open, use or watch TikTok. For MANY of the reasons you cover here. I won't bore anyone with all the ways I dislike it or the culture surrounding it. I just wanted to say your video was really great and makes me even happier with my decision. Loved the vid. Subbed.
That is because our attention spans are not short enough for it, from what I seen it is for hyperactive kids maybe all the kids are hyperactive these days? :)
"Old person" high five!
That’s what people said about TH-cam. I’m old enough to remember. But here we are.
@@TC-ku4vvTikTok is wildly different from TH-cam for many nefarious reasons.
@@TC-ku4vv There was a time when TH-cam was utterly insufferable though, even as a young person. Now it's evolved, most people can find something that appeals to them, but at one point in time it was just teenage boys doing questionable things.
This channel is so underrated love you beanieduck
4:00 I would call this one the Newscaster Bruh accent lol
This is so interesting! I've been making content for about 15 years now and I have a very strong yorkshire accent and no one could understand me so I started kind of dulling the accent for content, but now it's bled into my real life and I have this weird mix of general uk/yorkshire/american accent now!! :(
Up talk is what Australian accent is naturally so very interesting
And a lot of people really don't like Australian accents 😅
Influencers pronouncing S sounds like Sh or Sch.... shtraw. Little thing but once you hear it.... it's everywhere
A lot of that is to cover a lisp. Sch doesn’t get the same whistle tone through the teeth that can grate on some people’s nerves.
thats just the way some irish people pronounce it xD
this is a common thing in the northeast of america. i pronounce straw as schtraw and ive never been on tiktok :’)
That’s actually not an influencer thing at all. There’s a video on Dr Geoff Lindsey’s channel about it btw.
It’s a variation in regional pronunciations. My cousin pronounces “last year” as “lascht-year”
Heh, thanks for this. As an early Gen-Xer, quite tired and cranky and social media except youtube I found your video reassuring. I don't have IG or Tiktok at all but I get glimpses of content from there through YT videos. The 'accents', but mostly the hand gestures, drive me bonkers! I come from the Mediterranean. We speak with our hands so I'm no stranger to gesturing but these 'influency' ones - I can't.
I feel a bit better to know that it's not (just) my ancient brain that views these things as unusual and annoying. Phew and thanks again.
This phenomenon has actually been studied by linguists. I've read about it. They determined this is how humans behave in social groups and identifying with each other, speaking alike.
Wow, a web platform somehow has its own version of Atlantic American English.
If this means we can all start using BBC English on TH-cam, I'm all for it. UK kids have been growing up having American twinges to their accent since the 1990s at least.
Just a reminder that everyone has an accent, and saying "i don't have an accent" is like saying "i don't have a skin color"
I don’t have TikTok so this is weird 😂 Living in California, I feel like these TikTok voices and mannerisms have been the way people have communicated here for at least the last 10-15 years, it’s super interesting to see how it’s spread. Unless a lot of states/countries have a sect of their population who talks like this, but I kind of doubt that. 😊
Ahhh they been communicating like that since Frank Zappa's daughter sung Valley Girl in the 1980's.
Isn’t like… the entire Australian accent uptalk lol
I don't go near TikTok but this came up in my recommendations and I'm very intrigued.
Someone needs to do a deep dive on people saying “A.M in the morning” and the wrong use of “P.O.V” 😂😂
Ugh this…
@@RadioPsychicAstrologyByPepper idk why it just grinds my gears 😂😂😂
Its funny because the types of tiktoks I find most interesting and engaging are the ones in which people are just talking normally
You forgot the spooky voice! I blame Ryan from unsolved for that one. 😂
Was waiting for this one!
rip liam payne
Bro said that voice makes it better for people to understand him then he says "in-nung-tuate."
The accent compilations had me laughing out loud, I appreciate the research you put into this!!
Benedict I agree with every single thing you said in this video. It's so refreshing to hear someone intelligent give witty and analytical takes on something whilst being funny. I'm a bit tired of people molly coddling and walking on eggshells so much that everything goes through a filter, it's so refreshing to hear someone say "I find this thing annoying" why is that so rare now 😂 Love this channel and agree you definitely all deserve way more success with this channel 🤗
i got this video in my recommended and was shocked at how funny and engaging it is! subscribed
I feel like the dude bro one could have origins with chills
Real it sounds like chills but a little to the left
I would also add in the tiktok "cooks" who just throw their ingredients all over the place to make a loud a slap as possible and to this day I still do not get it.
Liam Payne is certainly stateless as of yesterday.
that's mean way of putting it 😢. may he rest in peace
I feel like the way TikTok language evolved is similar to how texting language evolved (ie "hey" vs "heyy..." being very different). It came out of a need to express a point through a new format but make it understandable as though you were talking to a person face to face. Since you have less time in a tiktok before the person scrolls, your tone and hand gestures have to add to the information, so that the words can be short and sweet and to the point
4:46 i had no idea what changed but as a South African I actually did not even realise you tried to have an SA accent😭🤣
I used to talk about this all the time and point it out to people and no one really realized it till I said something. Especially on those videos that talk about “hidden gems” or some cool spot in the city. Im glad other people are starting to talk about it
I've been noticing this accent thing in media in general mostly on youtube long before tiktok existed ❤
The uptalk part is tricky cause it's ALSO just the way Canadians talk 😅Or as some people say the "canadian lift" or "canadian rising". So it's been annoying to have my speaking patterns criticized when it's just how I've always talked. 😂
They replaced a full stop/period with uptalk because it’s faster than taking the time to pause.
I’ve noticed that more and more people are pronouncing the hard g in words that end with “-ing”, so it sounds like “sing-guh” “wrong-guh” “long-guh”. I LOATHE it. It makes me want to seclude myself in a mountain cave where I can’t hear anyone talk weirdly ever again.
I don't know WHAT it is but for some reason people cant just say "ing" normally
It's always "talk-eenkh" or "walk-eenkh"
or my most hated:
"talkeen"
"walkeen"
Amberlynn Reid does this all the time and it drives me fuckeen CRAZY
I would watch way more videos if more people talked like Benedict
I honestly thought this was clickbait but gave it a shot because I love linguistics and was not expecting it to be so interesting and hilarious! Thank you
I hope this channel never ends
March 2024 must be Tim Follin Awareness Month -- been a fan of his work since Equinox (SNES) and all these bangers keep surfacing. Great job, love the instrumentation and that beefy prog tone!
The way that you're doing the voice in bits while making this video as well 😂
The uptalk has translated into a lot of day to day convos out in the wild and I can’t stand it, to the point where I tell the other person not every statement is a question.
Almost all of my coworkers use it... two of whom are trying to be influencers/content creators. It's awful. But contagious honestly
My housemate has a tiktok accent, it drives me insane. But other examples are radio voice, TV voice, audiobook voice, the transatlantic accent, etc. This isn't a new phenomenon but it's possible that this the first time it's so widespread.
News anchors have a funny way of talking too 🤔
This is one of the funniest videos I've seen in a while. Probably because it's so true lol.
This is my favourite video of yours yet, all your impressions had me rollinggg
This is spot on! And I love that we got a bonus of TH-cam accents-wasn’t expecting that! 😂
I’m in Colorado and we are overwhelmed with the amount of tik tokers you’ve sent us. Stop using us as your backup Australia!
I think older millennials are immune to the apparent hypnotic effects of TikTok accents. Whenever someone talks using these techniques, I immediately move on, because to me it means they have nothing to say.