Author: Jeannine Hyde

Jeannine is a multimedia journalism student, with interests in fashion, travel and pop culture. She also presents and edits a podcast that provides listeners with a weekly fix of funny girl chat. Combine that with her expertise in social media, and Jeannine is the ultimate Hashtag Hyena writer.

The text-to-speech effect is used on TikTok for many different reasons, one of them is to create funny videos by making the voice say specific words, or more importantly, it is used to make it accessible to users that are hard of hearing or blind. The automated voice on the video app will sometimes pronounce words in a funny way which adds that extra comedic flare to people’s videos. This TikTok creator @lucyedwardsblind shared a video about how happy she is with this new feature as it makes apps like TikTok so much more accessible to blind users. How to…

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The hashtag #iykyk is most commonly used on TikTok. It sounds confusing but it makes sense when you see an example, so here are some below. What does iykyk mean? Iykyk means ‘if you know you know’ and people usually put it to help people understand the content that is posted, it usually means the video is cleverly referencing something else. Iykyk TikTok examples You may have read our previous story about the Jay Alvarez coconut oil drama where he was supposedly involved in an intimate video that used coconut oil. Many people then went on to post videos about…

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TikTok dances are one of the most popular things to do on the app, with most users jumping at the opportunity to show off their best dance moves and the newest viral dance trend is the cut the check challenge. The hashtag #cutthecheckchallenge has 325 Thousand views on TikTok, so find out how to do it below. Who created the dance? The creator of the new viral dance is TikTok user Mahak Hamid who now has over 1.1 million followers thanks to her popular moves. She shared a video thanking everyone for doing her dance and also posted a slowed…

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YouTube star Millie T shares a heartwarming video with her 1.3 million followers about her mums six-year-long battle with cancer after she sadly passed away last week. The YouTuber often shared videos that included her mum, so she felt it was time to share the news with her followers. She uploaded a Instagram picture of her as a baby with her mum to announce the news to her Instagram followers. Who is Millie T? Millie’s birthday is the 16th September 2000 making her 20 years old and her real name is Millie Taylforth. Millie has over a million YouTube subscribers…

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Kelianne Stankus is one of the rising stars of TikTok. Before her TikTok fame she was a member of the US National Acrobatic Gymnastics team and she has just got engaged to her model boyfriend. Who is Kelianne? Kelianne Stankus was born on the 29th March 1996 making her 24 years old. She only began posting on TikTok in May 2020 and since then has has gained 8.8 million followers and over 330 million likes. She competed in gymnastics for 10 years and even performed on the ellen show in 2015 as a member of the ‘Acrobats’ an acrobatic hoverboard dance group.…

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