May3 , 2026

    TikTok Roundup: Chonky Sea Lions, 90s Butter Moms, and Arby’s Meat Mountain

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  • Why the hell is everybody hating on Arby’s lately? Who knows, but it has become something of a meme for Gen Alpha. They joke about the “Rod Wave Arby’s meal”, which does not actually exist, because they think that Rod Wave’s music is crap and Arby’s food is crap. They go to Arby’s and asking for the Meat Mountain, which is a so-called secret menu item made with every meat available. There is also a viral trend of people calling their friends and asking if they want anything from Arby’s, prompting shocked and disgusted reactions.

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  • Step the fuck aside, because Chonkers, the San Francisco sea lion, is the latest animal to become TikTok-famous. Chonkers is estimated to weigh 2,000 pounds, which is more than double the size of your average, lame-ass sea lion.

  • Kylie Jenner’s fashion brand, Khy, seems to be floundering. Fashion influencers on TikTok are speculating why, giving reasons such as, “that shit is lame,” and, “no one cares.”
  • Some Scientology buildings have removed their door handles so that people can’t film their speedruns inside the building. Leah Remini condemned the viral phenomenon last week, as has the first guy who originally did the Scientology speedrun.
  • When a mother learned that her son had picked up her cat and slammed it on the ground, she made him take his PS5 and slam it on the ground multiple times as punishment. Some online are calling it just desserts, while others are calling it…actually, no one is calling it too harsh.

  • Addison Rae’s father, Monty Lopez, was arrested for felony marijuana possession. He claims that his wife, Kaitlyn Lopez (Rae’s stepmother, not biological mother), [content warning] pulled a gun on him and hit him prior to his arrest. A judge granted Monty Lopez a protection order against Kaitlyn. Monty Lopez was charged with a felony for [content warning]exposing his genitals in public of July of 2025.
  • Is it exploitative to post videos of yourself caring for someone who has dementia? That is the question raised by the videos of Simply Sarah, aka Sarah Harris. She is the primary caregiver for her husband’s grandmother, who has dementia. Her videos get hundreds of thousands of views, but some viewer question whether it is acceptable to film and post someone who maybe doesn’t have the cognitive capability to give their consent. Sarah defended herself, claiming that she approaches her content with “dignity, love, and hope.”
  • The Scamanda drama of Summer House keeps dominating TikTok! Someone leaked secretly recorded audio from the taping for Bravo’s Summer House reunion. Not one, not two, but three illicit clips dropped on TikTok. Fans have been going wild sleuthing out who could have done it.
  • The whimsical skedaddlers of the week are these toddlers in their daycare class, especially Mila and Ramiro. They have prompted a viral trend of getting up and dancing like toddlers to the original audio of their videos.

  • Ballerina Farm chose a name for baby #9 after two months: [Spoiler (click to open)]Greta Jean.
  • Welp, body-positive fitness influencer Carly Weinstein admitted to having used a GLP-1 to lose weight, even after she was repeatedly, vocally outspoken against them to her fanbase.
  • TikTok now has a feature that forces you to read an AI text overview of the video before you can read the comment section. Here are directions for how you can turn it off.
  • Some Gen Z/Gen Alpha TikTok slang that is becoming mainstream that you should know:

    Bird: A longstanding British slang word that TikTok uses for women who make dumb decisions because of men.
    Lowkenuinely: Low-key yet genuinely. For instance, I lowkenuinely enjoy find this word amusing.
    Unc: Something that is old or uncool. (I heard this one in public this week and felt very unc indeed.)
    To glaze: To excessively hype someone up or compliment them a lot.

  • Are you ready to have a 90s Butter Mom summer? A 90s Butter Mom is a term that TikTok has come up with for a nostalgic, idealized kind of woman from the 90s. You don’t have to have kids to be a 90s Butter Mom. Being a 90s Butter Mom means wearing cutoff shorts with your hair in a French twist, twirling around to a Jewel song. It means wearing a patchwork vest in a spacious, tomato-themed kitchen in your Cape Cod-style home, listening to Tracy Chapman. So if you want a 90s Butter Mom summer, go put on a ribbed turtleneck and some burgundy matte lipstick, crank up some Paula Cole, and take a girls’ road trip in your 1994 Toyota Supra.
  • Was the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting seriously just last weekend?! That shit is insane. Anyways, here is a roundup of some of the best activity on TikTok about it.

    Some journalists grabbed the bottles of booze and snapped selfies before fleeing.

    Erika Kirk’s reaction vs. UFC president Dana White’s.

    This guy eating his salad boredly as the shooting goes on around him.

    Two guys with Fox news who were caught on hot mics joking about how bad the security was.

    And of course, there were plenty of spoofs, parodies, skits, and jokes.

  • Since Euphoria season 3 debuted, a song by Labrinth, “Mount Everest,” has gone viral. Just not in the way that he probably would have hoped for. The trend started with people randomly singing the song in front of their friends of family members in a goofy way to see whether they would laugh. People are also singing the literal translations of the lyrics in their native languages while trying not to crack up.

    What kind of summer are you going to have, ontd?

    90s butter mom summer

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    Chonky seal summer

    1(33.3%)

    Mt. Everest ain’t got shit on me summer

    1(33.3%)

    Arby’s meat mountain summer

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