If you have been on TikTok within at least the recent year, no doubt will you have been subjected to a substantial amount of ‘theories’ from TikTok ‘theorists.’
However, this term is used loosely.
By Cambridge dictionary, a theorist is described as ‘someone who develops ideas about the explanation for events’.
This is true, but many provide these ‘theorists’ with more credit than they are worth, as they come up with theories after a single personal event, with no reliability or validity behind their takes.
First love theory? Three-month theory? Shoe theory? Pomegranate theory? Bird theory?
It appears theories, primarily centred around relationship advice have no actual basis to them and sound ridiculous when explained to an outside perspective.
This leads it to not being particularly difficult to decipher the real intention behind this work: it keeps the people watching feeling insecure and unstable about their lives.
As if one wrong movement or one wrong answer to a hypothetical question they read online means that their life is over, its unrecoverable and it is severe.
This honestly and truly is not the case.
Now this is not to say that TikTok cannot be enjoyed or that the platform cannot provide genuinely helpful or educational advice- it certainly can.
But it is to say that it is an app made for entertainment, which it does a very good job at providing.
If you are to take these meaningless theories made by teenagers too seriously, you will manifest your own destruction, subconsciously destroying important parts in your life because you are made to believe they will destroy themselves.
And when this does happen, it reinforces belief behind these ‘theories’.
It is important to remember that no theory defines your life, no theory defines a relationship, and no theory can define you.
