Whether it is professionally produced or user-generated – online video content is proving vastly popular with social media consumers, and it is, therefore, expanding across established platforms like Instagram and serving as a springboard medium for newcomer applications like TikTok. This phenomenon was especially highlighted during the coronavirus pandemic, with quality, storytelling, and accessibility standing out as main reasons to watch short videos. It also reflects recent changes in internet user behavior, such as shorter attention span resulting in short-form video platforms becoming major players. TikTok’s immense popularity mirrors one of the most significant technological trends of the past decade, the shift from desktop to mobile. Despite app downloads fluctuating between 2021 and the beginning of 2023, the popular short video platform still ranks as one of the leading apps both worldwide and in the United States.

TikTok app downloads peaked in the first quarter of 2020, reaching over 313.5 million.

From pho to French onion soup, let this unlikely food group grace your table this Christmas.In July 2021, TikTok reached the milestone of three billion downloads worldwide, despite being banned in India in June 2020 and losing a considerably large audience. With all that lore out of the way, #foodtok has been creating all different kinds of soups inspired by these memes. What kind of soup? It doesn't matter, so long as it's good, you will become a gorgeous gorgeous girl. The video has since racked up over 37 million views, and became quite the viral meme. In the middle of the year, another non-food account posted a scene of Adam Driver eating some 'good soup' in a scene from the 2017 TV show Girls. However, Serena did not popularise soup alone. Soup girls are the most popular girls in the chicken coup.' This chant was coined by Serena of in a video of her and her friend eating soup and making rhymes. Repeat after me: 'gorgeous gorgeous girls love soup. Nonetheless, these will take your normal Christmas potatoes to the next level. We'll just have to keep making these addictive potatoes until we crack the code. 'The double-fry step is essential to get a crispy skin,' says Shi, who also told us there was a 'secret ingredient' she didn't include in the video. Ms Shi mashes boiled potatoes, adds glutinous rice flour and corn flour, forms them into little 'bubble'-like balls and double-fries them.

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