Season 5 of stranger things doesn’t seem too close on the horizon, but that hasn’t stopped references to the popular series from making their way back into thousands of people’s social media feeds.
Finn Wolfhard, the Canadian actor, continues to play Mike Wheeler stranger thingsShe has become the face of a new TikTok trend. These TikToks repurpose a video of him snapping, often cutting it out and overlaying it over other images. Wolfhard’s clips have been viewed over 2.2 million times, with being the most popular Videos with more than 5.1 million views
In the videos, people will use Recordings by Wolfhard in which he walks up to a camera, holds his hand close to the lens and snaps his fingers. People edit their video so that it fades as he snaps, all to the tune of an accelerated version of “Give It to Me” by Timbaland, Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado. Most TikToks tend to emphasize the difference between two points of comparison. In this example, a person is talking about changes made to Minecraft Graphic.
And here’s one that trails the way a stereotypical tech bro might decorate his home.
The origins of the source video are unclear — Wolfhard wears a striped button-down shirt and shorts from the show’s third season, but it hasn’t been identified as a clip from the actual show.
Fans have used digital tools that make these videos relatively easy to create. There is an app called CapCut owned by ByteDance that allows people to use a template to create the videos. People took that with the pre-made green screen cutout version of the wolfhard clip and repurposed it for their own jokes and memes.
The trend combines two super popular themes on TikTok: clever transitions and stranger things.
In TikToks, transitions are used to cut from one part of the video to the next in a way that minimally disrupts the visuals. Once in a while People will use a dance
The Duffer Brothers’ sci-fi thriller series has inspired numerous big trends in the app. In the summer of 2022, a song that was remixed Joseph Quinn’s scream “Chrissy, wake up” went viral on TikTok and has been used in over 35,000 videos. Another sound from Millie Bobby Brown screams “You’re like dad!” also exploded and became a meme. like anime, stranger things-Adjacent content has always been a fundamental part of TikTok’s meme culture, so it seems appropriate for Wolfhard to show up on the platform.
