Elite TikTok, Save Barron Trump, Sheena Melwani, Rynn Star

Our first episode was a resounding success, according to us.

Get the cliff notes and further reading below.

What is Elite TikTok?

Elite TikTok is a corner of the TikTok universe where people (mostly teenagers) create accounts for inanimate objects and personify them.

Inanimate objects doesn’t even fully cover it though—there are accounts for states, countries, colors, brands, foods, periodic elements, stores, planets.

And they all interact with others within their “group.” At least from what I’ve seen, states aren’t interacting with foods. But Florida will start a fight with Texas.

Make sense? No. Well, that’s sort of the idea.

I’d call it absurdist comedy, but honestly I don’t even think that’s it. There’s an earnestness to these accounts—likely because they’re manned by fourteen-year-olds. There’s not really a joke behind it.

It’s more like people just pretending to be something completely foreign to themselves.

For my millennial comrades, you can think of it like The Sims. And in doing so, you know that there’s always truth at the core of a make believe world. (It’s no coincidence my Sims always did their homework…)

So in Elite TikTok, we see them hosting proms, having first kisses, getting into fights, falling in love, breaking up. It’s a reflection of their reality. Just a very bizarre reflection.