Conservatives are too obsessed with TikTok

This week, social media site X once again managed to raise uproar over a TikTok video, this time featuring  “Dinks”, an acronym for dual-income, no-kids couples. While the video comes across as obnoxious, and rightly so, there’s a key aspect that X users overlooked — the couple at the centre of it wasn’t serious. They were joking. 

As it turns out, it was just one of several memes posted to TikTok, a joke format in the spirit of the once-popular “Shit People Say” videos, which at the beginning of the last decade parodied stereotypes ranging from everything from one’s culture to gender to subcultural affiliation. These were obviously caricatures, much like the Dinks craze.