Another clip shows boys imitating a rodeo by having one play the bull, one play the cowboy, and a third open the door of the stall as if it were a gate. In one boys’ bathroom, a kid crowdsurfs as his classmates pack the stalls three at a time. Earlier this year, a meme comparing what happens in boys’ and girls’ locker rooms took off, the general gist of which was that girls complained about gym class in their locker room and boys turned theirs into a Mad Max state of anarchy.Ī similar type of this joke lives and thrives on TikTok, where the bathroom space is not metaphorically depicted with random internet pictures and videos, but through gags lived and enacted by teens. One of them opens a ceiling tile and drops down and states, matter-of-factly, “I’m gay.”īut there are also a slew of videos in which students recontextualize the bathroom social space and play with its perception.
One of my favorite clips features two students who realized that they could get into the ceiling crawlspace above their bathroom. In one video, captioned “bathroom party?,” six boys and girls sheepishly exit a gender-neutral bathroom (the last one out flips off the videographer). Users film videos of themselves and friends goofing off or mugging for the camera. On TikTok, we get to see the school bathroom as a hangout zone. It is a refuge from the various pressures of adolescent life, and from the oversight of adult authority figures. On rare occasions, people go to the bathroom to use the toilet. It’s where they go to eat lunch if they’re particularly uncool. It’s where they go to touch up their makeup. It’s where teens go to meet up and avoid class. It’s a haven where students used go to smoke, now it’s where they go to Juul.
I’ve recently become fascinated by another world that TikTok invites us into: the high-school bathroom, which has occupied many roles in American life. TikTok, through a user base of millions, turned every profession and space into a video subgenre of its own: “#scrublife will take you inside hospitals #cheflife, into kitchens #forgelife, into the world of superheated steel #farmlife, to the fields.” The app has “in its manic and frequent demands for content from its users, become an unlikely force for labor visibility,” wrote John Herrman. In March, the New York Times covered how TikTok lets us go to work. Perhaps this feeling of teleportation is best captured through TikTok’s “For You” feed, a never-ending stream of clips mysteriously curated by a proprietary sorting algorithm. Because it takes little effort to post these clips or consume them, their terseness lets us quantum leap through time and space, from a quick post from a user’s bedroom to one at work, to one at a party or a concert, or anywhere else.
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