We should create a Floptok-like community/instance on lemmy
from hopeleft@lemmy.dbzer0.com to newcommunities@lemmy.world on 11 Apr 2025 20:04
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/41989530
from hopeleft@lemmy.dbzer0.com to newcommunities@lemmy.world on 11 Apr 2025 20:04
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/41989530
It would be nice to create a community for flops here and on Pixelfed too. I’m pretty sure there are at least some of us on Fediverse, and it would be really good to introduce floptok members from tiktok into fediverse as well. Who’s interested in helping me with it?
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never heard of floptok, what’s that?
These are various memes which eventually became sth like a subculture, mainly on tiktok. It encompasses for example Cupcakke remixes, jiafei and many other stuff. It’s also connected to expressive language, words like “slay”, “ate”, purple heart core (💜), and usage of sparkles (✨) and painted nails (💅) emojis. Flops oppose the so-called “Daboyz” which encompasses modern culture of young manosphere, fascist teens, geotubers, and gen alpha. The traits of Daboyz is the usage of incel slang like “alpha/sigma” and gen alpha slang like “skibidi ohio gyatt”, as well as characteristic emojis (💀, ☕). This, this and this video can be helpful to get it.
This post just rocketed me into menopause
lol what 😭
Just made me feel elderly is all
Oh, I see, i didn’t get it at first. If you’re not into recent trends it doesn’t make you elderly or sth, i had the same feeling even if i’m a teen, about various stuff, so whatever. Memes and trends nowadays don’t last more than a week (tho it seems that floptok is still going but it’s an exception)
I haven’t made it past the first video. The sincerity with which the line “The multiverse of floptok memes kept growing and blending into each other until they finally reached the height of enlightenment; The knowledge could not be contained within itself anymore and the community burst open with Floptropica” was read nearly made me question my own sanity.
damn thank you I really appreciate that explanation and will check out those videos.
I understand half of enough of that to know what you mean by context, and you really tied a lot of it together for me just now.
I don’t have tiktok so I’m sure I’m sitting out a lot of cultural tides at the moment.
I deleted my tiktok account, and I feel pretty much the same, I have no idea about recent trends or whatever, but I liked floptok and didn’t want to give it up just by deleting tiktok, there are still floptok communities on non-fediverse social media, but it would be cool if they existed on fediverse too. It’s also been quite long since it’s appearance and it still hasn’t died as a meme, i suppose.
What is floptok?
Yeah, I looked online, still don’t understand.
I tried to explain it in my reply to Varyk’s comment