What is the "TikTok Accent" and do you have it?

Is there a TikTok accent? It's the question everyone is asking (in a variety of accents).
We've dug into it (scrolled deep.. I guess you could say??) and we think the answer is yes, but actually there's not just one TikTok accent but several!
Benedict breaks them all down in this rip-roaring episode of Scroll Deep!
#tiktok #tiktokaccent
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[@rampagingshark]

That feminine ai voice from tick tock that uses incorrect inflections bugs me so bad

[@d0ttiej]

I loathe that one! And the ones that say Beyoncé or Kanye or any famous name incorrectly. Drives me insane.

[@poogissploogis]

I literally skip every single video that uses it, it triggers a primal rage in me

[@ElectraRay21]

I don't do tick tock or however you spell it most everyone i watch on YT seems pretty genuine

[@susanjeffries5108]

100% agree! It's like this snotty, inarticulate girl AI voice and I can't stand it!

[@salmon_wine]

@@ElectraRay21 yes, they sure do seem that way. don't they?

[@cherridays]

a bigger epidemic is male podcast voice

[@suhanasanam5398]

IKR!!! They think they're doing God's work 😂

[@beerussama7093]

😂🤣

[@Mothermochi]

::shudder::

[@terminator572]

"It seems my superiority has led to some controversy"

[@Throwshotsnotshade]

No women feminist on tiktok voices

[@KZesty]

The "bored influencer" voice taking a huge dramatic breath after a few words like they just ran up a flight of stairs cracks me up 😆

[@grain9640]

They're always trying to create a fake sense of urgency with their voice to keep people watching.

[@potato-whiz]

I completely noticed this and was just thinking about this the other day. It wasn’t tiktok I found it on but I was watching makeup reviews of products I was curious about and I noticed most of them did this thing where they would “ramble, ramble, ramble, ramble…*DEEP BREATH* …uptalk while sighing the last word of the sentence.” People from all over the world are doing it lol. I’m so glad I’m not the only one who noticed because after a while it got so annoying to me. That one girl Natalya nailed it lol (she’s doing a parody)

[@waahtera]

Yeah it's like, "I'm so hot that I take my breath away". I can't stand it honestly, so I stay away from tik tok.

[@barbarabelloni]

I TALK LIKE THAT I don't even use tiktok but for some reason I have acquired somewhat of a Kardashian voice after the pandemic And also the hands but I think a part of that is how long my nails always are

[@melbapeach162]

​@@barbarabelloniwell please stop 😭😭

[@ericajurus5638]

I initially subscribed for silly little youtube stories and now we're getting borderline dissertations on the recent transformation of linguistic trends across the globe. What a fascinating evolution, 10/10 no notes.

[@octopus8978]

real

[@scrolldeep]

🙏🙏🙏

[@NicEeEe843]

It seems less like an accent and more like a style kinda like calling a radio announcer voice an accent when it’s more a style, like when they all say in a big radio voice “You’re listening to WKZB chicagos #1 radio station!” Using that type of voice on radio is more a style rather than an accent

[@TwistedRootsMelody]

​@nicholas1611 that announcer voice is called the mid Atlantic English accent

[@NicEeEe843]

@@TwistedRootsMelodyI’m referring to the big voice radio trope that’s heavily memed, car dealership commercials and radio announcers use it all the time where they use a big male radio voice. Its different from the mid Atlantic accent used in mid century American productions where it’s normal speaking, I’m talking about the big radio voice that’s found in car dealership ads, radio station identifications “YOU’RE LISTENING TO WJZV, PORTLANDS NUMEBR #1 jazz station!” more associated with radio jockeys Is that called the mid century accent? I thought the big radio voice was different from the mid Atlantic

[@PufflePie]

VIDEO ESSAY VOICE IS A PLAGUE ON HUMANITY seeing a video essay on a topic that’s right up your alley and then starting to watch only to find out that they have the most insufferable voice known to man is one of the worst experiences someone can go through

[@lilacsrain6004]

oh it's the voice equivalent of opening a fanfiction and realising it's written in 1st person POV 🙁 (the solution to this is to post a link in the description to the word file of the essay so i can read it instead)

[@sophiek.1408]

@@lilacsrain6004 what's wrong with 1st person pov🤒

[@lamacornrainbows495]

Or you cant get through the video essay because the voice puts you right to sleep😂

[@lalaland2107]

I don’t think I have ever heard voices like those in vide essays…. Maybe recently with younger people because they’re commenting about stuff from Tik Tok

[@lethaldream50]

yeah i know that you mean. there's quite a few video essayists whose content i find genuinely engaging and interesting, who i genuinely want to watch, but their specific choice of essayist cadence and tone makes it insanely hard to get through and sometimes i can get past that and other times i stop watching a video essay i'm truly otherwise engaged with the content and sentiment of because their voice is just intolerable even though i tried to overlook this because i really want to hear what they have to say about a topic.

[@bridge2607]

this is really similar to the Tumblr writing style of the early 2010s, like you can tell if someone used Tumblr by the way they punctuate and Capitalize Things

[@frogsfoot]

omfg,, I feel Attacked

[@faerietoast]

imho, in 2010 if you refused to use capitalization at the beginning of a sentence it was clear sign of tumblr kid. gpoy 😂

[@chewingwildflower]

@@faerietoast jfc i havent seen anyone use "gpoy" in like 10 years wtaf

[@dari9845]

I have to inform you that tumblr writing style is pretty much still the same now in 2024

[@withcharmtospare]

@@faerietoastgpoy! Wow that’s a fossil 😂

[@heathercontreras1586]

It's the new news anchor voice!

[@yelhsasokolova8561]

Came here to say the same thing 😂

[@fitog5202]

Huh

[@heathercontreras1586]

@@fitog5202 news anchors are trained to talk a certain way.

[@marjoriemorris5849]

The news reporter has d’TAILS.

[@jdalia143xo]

Yes! This is what I wanted to say!

[@aivlysplath]

“When I talk like this it’s pretty easy to E-NUCH-E-ATE.”

[@Kira_Martel]

The painful irony of mispronouncing "enunciate." 🤦🏼‍♀️😭

[@earlyso_music]

hahaha, I came here looking for this comment 😂

[@oatmilg]

i laughed so hard at that

[@chaoscontagion3208]

@@earlyso_music Me too! I knew I wasn't the only one who caught that.

[@ronswansonsdog2833]

@@earlyso_musicsame

[@Skooskah]

I think there's this weird thing where TikTok is going through all the trends KZbin did, but at a really accelerated pace, and that that's why the KZbin accent that developed over like a decade is all over TikTok after just a few years

[@maya-mu3ce]

that’s super interesting, do you know any examples?

[@supersucks]

@@maya-mu3ce first person who invented the influencer speak imo is Jojo Siwa’s fast paced, “HEY What’s Up YOu GuyS!” then popularized by Mr. Beast and other Logan Paul adjacent Viners/KZbinrs. This bled into other platforms and now we have the different TikTok Accents & Gestures.

[@icu3869]

Also ending sentences with” and , so…Yeah!”

[@NostalgiCrazy]

@@icu3869 Basically, a lot of what we know as social media accents stem from California accents lol.

[@user-tw4no3db8v]

Ye

[@oliviadnovak]

we humans are so fascinating

[@malilky-paperanimals]

I’m surprised no one replied to this comment yet

[@gas-lyghtchristianson-ashl5041]

Not really

[@uhh3788]

@@gas-lyghtchristianson-ashl5041 what makes you say that? there's a lot to learn about the human psyche.

[@CottonFarmGaming]

Were actually a surprisingly depressing species

[@tux_duh]

​@@CottonFarmGamingwell if we saw humans in their natural habitat we'd probably be pretty interesting A gorilla in a zoo is sadder than a gorilla in the wild

[@PrettyDaised]

I don't watch beauty bloggers often but I started to notice that they all speak and react the same exact way about every single thing. Same exaggerated expressions, same high pitch tones. It's nightmare fuel.

[@sokawai5]

Also some KZbinrs they have that same annoying voice. Like stop talking like that🎅🏻

[@croissant2882]

I used to watch Youkeyy (she didnt post for the last two years sadly) and she always had this really chill, relaxed and velvety voice, showing the cosmetics but also just chatting She was so great

[@LadyIarConnacht]

And they all start their videos the same way. "What's up, KZbinrs? Smash that like button." Oy, Vey. @@sokawai5

[@andrearace1168]

Pick-me girl internalized misogyny is what I got out of that.

[@wintermatherne2524]

That’s why I can’t watch them.

[@zooweamama5799]

I think the sort of “mouse hand” thing started with women with long acrylic nails, I noticed in like 2020/2021 or something there was this sort of mini trend of women with long acrylic nails doing things like tapping the camera with their nails to get the viewers’ attention or other things to emphasize their nails clacking when speaking, when they make that sort of pinching motion their nails make a clacking sound that some people find really satisfying which serves to punctuate their sentences or emphasize certain words, I think people saw this and liked it so they started doing it subconsciously because of that even if they themselves don’t wear big acrylic nails

[@littlelamb-]

there’s something to this bc the moment he showed the mouse hands I immediately associated long nails

[@peanutboxes4076]

This! It’s been driving me mad how young people online use their hands and fingers when they talk, I can’t stand it! You’ve explained it so well 😂

[@cbpd89]

Yes!! Even just painting my nails changes how I use my hands for like 2 days. Long acrylics change how you use your hands.

[@Kira_Martel]

Yes, absolutely. I'm a cosmetologist and I've long associated that kind of hand posture body language with acrylic nail wearers. It goes way back.

[@ltldxy71]

That MUST be it. The super long nail trend is ergh annoying.

[@anistyme]

"Your spaghetti couldn't wait 2 minutes while you tell me that the orange peel is your roman empire" i completely lost it

[@katieburgess6292]

I let out a truly heinous cackle at that sentence. 😂

[@squidwardtentacles6581]

He says "spagheddi"... He has a slightly Americanised 'internet voice'

[@carolynnalvarez]

I hate watching people eat 😝

[@kalisworl]

our pfps are similar :D

[@ItAllLedUpToThis]

“it’s pretty easy to ‘annunchiate’ everything” ok sure

[@youllbemytourniquet]

That guy’s voice was the worst out of all the examples given 😡

[@hellomello258]

Schwa, the uh sound, is very common in many North American accents as well as some anglophone English accents, notably some Scottish accents. Many speakers will use a schwa in unstressed syllables (for instance, both As in "America"). So uh-NUNciate is a valid pronunciation. And I assume the "ch" was an accident that he left in rather than re-record

[@ijustneedmyself]

🤣

[@nancyneyedly4587]

@@hellomello258 There was nothing wrong with the "nun" part, it was the "ch" that was aggravating.

[@sierranicholes6712]

this is actually a really common pattern in english! think about words like "ascension" - you probably don't pronounce it like "assen-see-un", you probably pronounce it like "assen-shun" or "assen-chun". the word "enunciate" is having the same thing happen to it currently!

[@Elriuhilu]

That one guy who was explaining how he puts on an accent because it's easier to enunciate mispronounced "enunciate" while explaining it using the accent.

[@sorrowful.sparrow]

i noticed that too. such exquisite irony...

[@mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmp]

And he doesn't enunciate well at all...

[@alicec-s3134]

genuinely so impressed by all of Benedict's accents in this, he did all of them so well 😂

[@MiaVorster]

no the south african one was so bad 😂

[@GenericUsername1388]

​@@MiaVorsterthat's how English people think we speak! Either that or the Australian accent😂

[@internetperson6195]

@@GenericUsername1388 u might not speak like that but the ones on tiktok def do

[@Emma-fe4pt]

@@MiaVorster Yeah it was terrible. I'm from SA and I barely recognised it! 😂

[@skeletized]

so many of the tiktok accents trigger my misophonia so bad i cannot watch people talk or i feel like throwing things at the wall

[@aamburrito]

As a fellow Misophonia sufferer, YES I feel this 1000% it genuinely makes me so angry

[@shaydabop]

I thought I was the only one dealing with that lol

[@HairyJuan]

Also, I genuinely don't understand how some people just let the audio go on repeat while looking at the comments or something, it is incredibly annoying to me

[@uchi3v]

yea i cant watch some commentary vids for example bcs the way ppl speak is just so irritating

[@niassuh4031]

Me too 😅 but the one I dislike the most is a voice with too much vocal fry and the sentences sound like they're always asking a question. I don't know why though.

[@supermannnblablabla]

That first British girl sounds crazy. I feel sorry this young generation right now who have their embarrassing teen phases documented on the internet forever.

[@chilliam00]

I think Millenials and Gen Z have grown up with so much exposure to American media via the internet that a lot of slang and Americanisms and especially AAVE slang has integrated into everyday speech

[@melitajay]

4:25 it's giving burger king foot lettuce

[@Khaleesi_Jack]

The low number of likes and (no) comments(?) makes me sad that hardly anyone understands that or remembers it anymore.

[@melitajay]

​@@Khaleesi_JackI'll never forget number 15

[@uhh3788]

LITERALLY MY THOUGHTS

[@uhh3788]

@@melitajay the last thing you want in your burger king burger is someone's foot fungus...but as it turns out, that might be what you gaet

[@ElizabethMidfordHatesCops]

I was scrolling the comments to see if anyone else noticed burger king foot lettuce.

[@paygej8710]

The vocal fry + up talk combo is THE DEVILS CREATION

[@ltldxy71]

YEEEES

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

it is, and I'm tired of pretending it's sexist to think so. I hate it equally in women and men

[@cluckcluckchicken]

​@@ThinWhiteAxe fr its even MORE annoying with men XD

[@miriamhavard7621]

😂

[@kay.gochii]

Imo everyone talks differently and that's fine.

[@lychenrose]

Internet voice to me is the Dan Howell British KZbinr of the mid 2010s voice and it genuinely rewired the way I spoke as a 14 year old. My accent went and Dan’s replaced it, truly

[@em_and_m_handicrafts]

Hi Phannie in the wild!

[@agneseguizzo7756]

relatable

[@Alicia-zf3nq]

When Benedict was mimicking the overly-excited KZbinr voice, all I could hear was Phil. I learnt a lot of English through watching Dan and Phil as a teenager and now I'm wondering how much of the way I talk in English has been influenced by Dan and Phil's KZbinr voices

[@user-gk7rn1qz6c]

I still copy Jenna Marbles sometimes lol

[@dyskelia]

Some of these accents pre-date TikTok influencers so this is just a rebranding

[@lindabalinda7887]

Right, being from California all these sound normal to me lol. It’s definitely a rebranding or a mix kind of of popular existing accents.

[@Linnetd]

@@shoesinmysoupyeah the world is pretty much copying Californian accents bc of social media

[@broadwaybroad]

Uptalking has unfortunately? existed? since like? forever?

[@GooKie18279]

I think social media has just globalized what were previously regional dialects, so they’ve become much more common (to our collective dismay in some cases)

[@smelly1060]

​@@lindabalinda7887kinda like "gen-z slang being just AAVE

[@yelhsasokolova8561]

It was your minecraft youtuber accent for me 😂

[@GrisouGismo]

Today we‘re looking for slimes 🥹✨

[@mareejoy6113]

Yes, that one had me rolling😂

[@luiginotcool]

Sounded just like goblin420

[@vorosmc]

What's interesting to me is the possibility of regional accents possibly disappearing. Maybe because of how online the world is, people from might Newcastle start to sound similar to people from London. Or people from Alabama might sound similar to people from Colorado. It's not happened yet, but I could see it happening. I don't have my natural accent anymore. That's more from moving around as I got older, but I could see the internet having a similar effect.

[@n.m.dimmick194]

It's definitely something that's already happening. There are quite a few distinct regional and cultural accents in the area I live, and I've noticed it's really rare to hear anyone below the age of 20 with one, and in general, I only ever hear really strong regional accents among the older generations. I've been deliberately trying to hold onto my own regional accent, but it's getting to the point where I hear it so rarely (since the younger generations aren't developing it, and everyone who grew up there's being priced out of the region) that it feels like I'm just doing a caricature of my own accent.

[@airthrowDBT]

I'm from Chicago but have now spent the majority of my life in Washington which is actually studied by linguists as one of the most neutral accented places in America. There are only a few "tells" that someone is from/has spent a lot of time in Washington (I have never acquired these Washingtonisms)-But I have lost 95% of my Chicago accent...unless I get angry. Your true accent usually comes out when you get angry. One time during an argument my wife mimiced my accent and it defused the entire situation and was hilarious.

[@existentialdemo]

it's definitely happening. in southern US - you can somewhat predict what kind of content kids grew up watching by how heavy their accents are.

[@youraftermyrobotbee]

This is literally already happening to Portuguese people, their children are growing up speaking Brazilian dialect because of Brazilians on social media

[@IntrospectiveHousewife]

We have something called the Rocky Mountain accent in Colorado, but there are less popular ones as well that are thriving. There's a Hispanic accent in the south that isn't as well-known, and it's a mixture of a New Mexican accent and the more popular Chicano Mexican-American accent that can be found throughout the southwest and in specific hubs like Chicago (but this Spanglish is more English than Spanish). I surprisingly do not have it, but I do use slang that pertains to eastern Colorado. A lot of people in this area listen to country music so there's a slight Texas accent added, but it's mainly among whites and white Hispanics. I think the Chicano accent isn't fading like other American accents because there's more ethnic pride among this population. Speaking more than one language cements it better, in my opinion. Multilingual people usually sound more interesting. Americans that only speak English tend to pick up a globalist "non-accent" of some kind.

[@racheldawn_7]

The most distinctive one for me is the “trying to sound calming” voice. Not ASMR but kind of ASMR-adjacent. There’s a TikTok creator who sews, makes a lot of corseted gowns, he is probably the best example but I can’t remember his name. If anyone knows who I’m talking about please let me know

[@racheldawn_7]

Gunnar Deatherage and TheOliviasaurusrex

[@huiajkoosmqmkw.kakaoaamama7692]

those are quite annoying :

[@miriamhavard7621]

​@@racheldawn_7 I have to say, I DO love Gunner Deathrage!

[@svvmaq_]

i actually kind of like those bc i also like asmr lol

[@dr.strangelove5708]

ASMR how pretentious you mean trance or hypnotic like.

[@SpookyFae]

Uptalk is just a vally/suburban accent. Pretty common in the pacific Northwest. Most people from cali, oregon and Washington talk like that

[@bellagoth144]

I’m from California and I sound nothing like that

[@marjoriemorris5849]

West coasters pronounce their “r”s somewhere between their teeth and their cheeks.

[@susanjeffries5108]

I think I'm guilty up talk a little bit and I live in Oregon so now you've got me dissecting every sentence I say hahaha. I definitely don't do it all the time but I think I do it sometimes, and it's always in situations where I am trying to get people to agree with me or think that I am an agreeable person. I've heard myself doing it... 😬

[@your3kidding]

Also we never say cali ​@@bellagoth144

[@bellagoth144]

@@your3kidding I never said that

[@elisa2115]

i call it italian appropriation 🤌🤌

[@4evrmind]

Sul serio 🙄

[@olliewithane6933]

​@@4evrmind its a joke man, unclench

[@Elven.]

And argentinian , how dare they you need insane levels of economic crises to be worthy of the gestures

[@4evrmind]

@@olliewithane6933 I was joking too🤨 “sul serio” means “for real”

[@olliewithane6933]

@@4evrmind I'm sorry, my phone translated it to "seriously" and with the emoji it looked like you were annoyed by the OP, but now it makes sense.

[@verytinycowboyboots]

to me it feels like the 'gamer guy voice' is just a version of the chills accent

[@jadedsurrealism]

While I can't hear a relation between the two personally, I'm so glad someone finally brought up the chills accent in these comments.

[@TheNanamariam]

Media has always had accents for certain things like, the trans atlantic accent during early onset of films and television. News anchors also have an accent. It's just a part of modern media and the new medium is social this time around.

[@justincase7157]

This got me thinking of all the internet accents, I think my favorite is the strange dark and mysterious voice people use for true crime and stuff lol

[@cayt23]

As an Australian Ive noticed the Aussie influencer and tik tik people have started to accentuate the 'naur' sound since that has become a thing. They sound like Kath and Kim, a sitcom from the early 2000's about bogan middle aged women.

[@Esstee-br1zf]

Yeh it’s funny cause arguably i reckon aussies say nahh more than naur but I guess content creators give people what they want to hear

[@-willow-980]

I love Kath and Kim 😩❤️

[@bloodleader5]

Aur naurrr, why wourd they dour tha?

[@Dontstopbelievingman]

I try to tell my American friends that Aussies don't sound like that, and they just shout back 'VEGEMOOOITE!'

[@bloodleader5]

@@Dontstopbelievingman Based.

[@TobyWild]

The Uptalk is very similar to the Australian accent (I'm Aussie) with the going up at the end of the sentence. Someone else mentioned News readers, but I would also say Morning Radioshow Announcers. I swear they could swap any drive time announcers around and no one would notice.

[@EmL-kg5gn]

People use uptalk in NZ too!!

[@hellomello258]

It's also known as High Rising Tone and is a documented feature of some accents of the region

[@claireattemptsatmusic7481]

Ooh interesting, we have a similar thing in Canada that people call the ‘Canadian Rise’

[@himynameishelen]

The uptalk? sort of sounds like there's a question for you, or an uncertainty in the speaker- it's the point in a real conversation where the listener would nod their head and say "mm" to confirm they're still following/listening, so it's a way for the influencer to make you (subconsciously) feel like you're being drawn into a conversation and bring back your focus and ensure you're still listening. In small doses it's effective and gives a cosy "just chatting" vibe, but it's become more and more a thing among social media influencers to use it on basically every single sentence, which has the effect of making them instead seem like they're parents talking to children, trying to keep a little kid focused and on task by making them feel like they're agreeing with what's being told to them due to the tone being lightly questioning, but positive. like "We're gonna go to the park? and then we'll do our playtime and have a snack? and then when we come home, we're gonna have our bath and read a story with mama?" "yeah! :D"

[@beulahboi]

I'm going to sound like a bitter old man here. I never have, never will, download, install, open, use or watch TikTok. For MANY of the reasons you cover here. I won't bore anyone with all the ways I dislike it or the culture surrounding it. I just wanted to say your video was really great and makes me even happier with my decision. Loved the vid. Subbed.

[@dr.strangelove5708]

That is because our attention spans are not short enough for it, from what I seen it is for hyperactive kids maybe all the kids are hyperactive these days? :)

[@EricaMeeee]

"Old person" high five!

[@TC-ku4vv]

That’s what people said about KZbin. I’m old enough to remember. But here we are.

[@jadedsurrealism]

​@@TC-ku4vvTikTok is wildly different from KZbin for many nefarious reasons.

[@Dontstopbelievingman]

@@TC-ku4vv There was a time when KZbin was utterly insufferable though, even as a young person. Now it's evolved, most people can find something that appeals to them, but at one point in time it was just teenage boys doing questionable things.

[@natey_TV]

Most underrated channel on KZbin

[@rando58]

and podcast

[@AG-sd9lt]

Actually - people in Los Angeles talked in almost ALL of these ways before TikTok existed. You're just seeing it now because of TikTok. Like that staccato of pausing between sentences is absolutely a Valley Girl variation - because you have to pause to keep people listening when in a group. Like, if you come to LA and visit a high school - well, maybe not anymore, but 10 years ago - you'd get it. Bored influencer was totally a thing even before youtube.

[@dr.strangelove5708]

Also because of Silicon Valley Californians seem to adopt tech trends faster than other regions so they are already at the foundation of a platform when everyone else is playing catch up.

[@hotdogstratus6533]

This is terrible news

[@samsamming646]

im a very british boy but i say 'about it' like abahded (like an american) and i also do a lot of uptalk whenever i send voicenotes and its such a modern day tragedy but its also funny

[@BlowinFree]

Stop it immediately

[@torimladd]

“Trader joesss did not have any parking spotsss” 😂😭😭

[@allwhowander390]

They never do.

[@Pikelet12]

The Dune reference and delivery was perfect. I was not ready hahaha

[@116stuart]

I'm from Zambia & I was commenting to my wife how all our local TikTokers talk the same way, like it's so freaky & you've just given me the perfect words to categorize it as TikTok Accents. I loved the breakdown

[@kaitmarie6505]

The surprise dune reference got me to laugh out loud, well done. Also 4:27 is insane because he's talking about how this accent makes it easier for him to enunciate as he stumbles over the word "enunciate." My dude. Does it really help you? Or do you just think it makes you sound more official because of internet trends?

[@rlobbest]

4:26 to be more precise*

[@Cr15t1n3]

I agree with Supermax in Colorado! Another voice affect to look into is “hip hop announcer” voice, where the announcer ends every statement with an audible COMMA, thereby making EVERYTHING they say sound like a list. “Shout out to my man Chris Ronron, he’s DJ-ing at the KBBL Summer Get Down, with DJ Hampster, the lineup for Friday is gonna be SICK, I can’t wait to see you there, and now we’re gonna hear a new track from 1998 monster jams, before we head into our commercial break, no full stop ever, it’s not in my repertoire,,,,,,”

[@ellaoats]

That was literally the most russian south african accent Ive ever heard in my life

[@nabila9149]

I heard it thrice before I figured he was trying to go for an Afrikaaner accent.

[@brokenrealities513]

✨water crystal oats✨

[@AbsoluteAbsurd]

Basically humans are so manipulatable, just subtle strategies like "up-talk" can keep a person hung onto your words just abit longer

[@hea-rbear]

Influencers pronouncing S sounds like Sh or Sch.... shtraw. Little thing but once you hear it.... it's everywhere

[@qwinlyn]

A lot of that is to cover a lisp. Sch doesn’t get the same whistle tone through the teeth that can grate on some people’s nerves.

[@AbsoluteAbsurd]

thats just the way some irish people pronounce it xD

[@wrightcember]

this is a common thing in the northeast of america. i pronounce straw as schtraw and ive never been on tiktok :’)

[@alicemarmeladova8447]

That’s actually not an influencer thing at all. There’s a video on Dr Geoff Lindsey’s channel about it btw.

[@ktyy777]

It’s a variation in regional pronunciations. My cousin pronounces “last year” as “lascht-year”

[@MegCazalet]

WaterTok is for people who love liquid candy that has water as one ingredient. But they insist on calling it “water”.

[@Kira_Martel]

Oh dear, and here I was assuming that it was just HydroHomies for TikTok.

[@orirune3079]

It's like if I drank pepsi all day and called it water, except pepsi is probably better for you than those monstrous creations

[@Devki24]

Isn’t like… the entire Australian accent uptalk lol

[@mhail7874]

Tapping sponsored products with long manicured nails is honestly it's own accent to me.

[@ellielynn8219]

I don’t have TikTok so this is weird 😂 Living in California, I feel like these TikTok voices and mannerisms have been the way people have communicated here for at least the last 10-15 years, it’s super interesting to see how it’s spread. Unless a lot of states/countries have a sect of their population who talks like this, but I kind of doubt that. 😊

[@dr.strangelove5708]

Ahhh they been communicating like that since Frank Zappa's daughter sung Valley Girl in the 1980's.

[@justinwhite2725]

This was a thing in hollywood too. During the 'silver screen' era, there was a specific accent that actors had to adapt for all the movies.

[@dr.strangelove5708]

Transatlantic accent you mean, you can look it up lots of KZbin videos on that.

[@michelleb7399]

I saw a KZbinr recently whose accent I was having trouble placing. It turns out she’s Australian. But her accent was really… something different. And I think this video answered it… she had some Americanization aspects to her accent. I thought she sounded sort of Canadian, sort of Minnesotan, and then there was the bit of Australia that increased as her video progressed.

[@Spiffington]

A lot of younger Australians are getting a more Americanised accent. It’s most prominent in people from Sydney.

[@MavSavMorgan]

The australian accent is slowly dissapearing, at least in the cities.

[@JamesD-iw6pr]

'He's technically stateless at this point' made me laugh out loud.

[@abrahamlincoln1600]

4:13 No that’s the Chillz accent. Believe it or not, that’s ACTUALLY how he speaks. And it blew up and he forever lives as a meme because of it.

[@Kalitayy]

The Uptalk accent is pretty common with KZbinrs as well. I was quite shocked when that accent was mentioned and I immediately realized that I have it, mixed with a little bit of the Let's Play KZbinr accent, mostly because I learned speaking in English from watching and creating KZbin videos.

[@ediesaffron3593]

3:52 I keep hearing the NoahGlennCarter voice freaking EVERYWHEREEEE on so many different channels!!! I keep thinking it’s an AI voice or something

[@GSutton]

I think that's because the stories they tell all sound like something written by poorly-programmed AI. They're the boy version of those cleaning TikToks where a woman narrator will tell you the most outlandish, disgusting trauma someone supposedly endured while scraping a decade of grease and crumbs off a stovetop. "Follow for more! 🤪"

[@jazmynlane]

It's so interesting as an American in the UK. All the Brits make fun of my American accent and all of the Americans make fun of my "British accent". It doesn't happen to everyone: some people are more prone to "adopting" similar accent-isms. It also depends on the environment you are currently in whether you will speak a certain way. If I'm on a call with friends and family, they hear an accent. However, if I'm in America, that "accent" they hear is gone. Similarly, my husband speaks more "Americanized" to me, but to others, he's way more British. When it comes to things like TikTok, I think it falls similar to the way that news reporters speak a certain way. I think these things are usually only situational, as in, they don't speak that way in normal life. However, there will be a "bleed" into normal life that can be heard, and will seem quite jarring if picked up on. Accents are funny little things!

[@dr.strangelove5708]

You could have the Transatlantic accent which some people mistake as British, old movies like from the 40's and 50's people spoke like that.

[@Dontstopbelievingman]

I find in America it's a defense mechanism, since they can't understand your accent, you end up using theirs rather than repeat yourself ten times.

[@IronWangCreates]

My dad and I have the same thing, we have a very vague and general accent so we get asked where we’re from very often. But our accents and the way we talk also changes when we’re around other people who have accents. And funnily enough, lots of people say they can understand us easier than people with typical British accents.

[@otter9104]

Noah Glenncarter be talking like he about to tell me the “top 5 most dangerous waterslides in the world”

[@fugitive_]

This channel is so underrated love you beanieduck

[@rlobbest]

6:36 You really hit on something here. A lot of the videos where someone is voicing over something always sound like they're hiding in their closet and don't wanna be too loud while recording.

[@NormaNight]

This is so interesting! I've been making content for about 15 years now and I have a very strong yorkshire accent and no one could understand me so I started kind of dulling the accent for content, but now it's bled into my real life and I have this weird mix of general uk/yorkshire/american accent now!! :(

[@NobodyInParticular001]

My least favorite is s falsely positive, trendy, I'm cool voice while saying something like "My parents just got divorced," usually accompanied by some form of Tik Tok dance or hand motion.

[@MacabreLondon]

You forgot the spooky voice! I blame Ryan from unsolved for that one. 😂

[@poeticsparrow]

Was waiting for this one!

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

Wow, a web platform somehow has its own version of Atlantic American English. If this means we can all start using BBC English on KZbin, I'm all for it. UK kids have been growing up having American twinges to their accent since the 1990s at least.

[@morganstokes3504]

News anchors have a funny way of talking too 🤔

[@d0dgecity]

How hilarious he said enunshiate. It's crazy how little mastery people have over the language they've spoken their entire life.

[@mdan6941]

I feel like the dude bro one could have origins with chills

[@L0rdOfThePies]

Real it sounds like chills but a little to the left

[@abrielle13]

I don't go near TikTok but this came up in my recommendations and I'm very intrigued.

[@soullessnight6539]

Up talk is what Australian accent is naturally so very interesting

[@melbapeach162]

And a lot of people really don't like Australian accents 😅

[@lilacbelly]

The accent compilations had me laughing out loud, I appreciate the research you put into this!!

[@ampersandcastle1091]

This is my favourite video of yours yet, all your impressions had me rollinggg

[@user-fi9wv3px4h]

This phenomenon has actually been studied by linguists. I've read about it. They determined this is how humans behave in social groups and identifying with each other, speaking alike.

[@headaqe1708]

Someone needs to do a deep dive on people saying “A.M in the morning” and the wrong use of “P.O.V” 😂😂

[@RadioPsychicAstrologyByPepper]

Ugh this…

[@headaqe1708]

@@RadioPsychicAstrologyByPepper idk why it just grinds my gears 😂😂😂

[@DelilahDee]

Heeey I didn't know you were South African too! Great channel! I also get made fun of for "americanizing" my accent, when I'm just speaking my words at the front of my mouth so people understand me better lol

[@juniperlee6475]

The hand gesture part made me cackle, hilarious

[@lornatw]

I've been noticing this accent thing in media in general mostly on youtube long before tiktok existed ❤

[@iagas9]

i got this video in my recommended and was shocked at how funny and engaging it is! subscribed

[@stephanie.treanor]

This is spot on! And I love that we got a bonus of KZbin accents-wasn’t expecting that! 😂

[@AntiMason]

Dude i have never heard you before. I searched up "tiktok accent" because it had been infuriating for like the past year every time i open up youtube with those guys who will say "Mysterious Eartg part number 2; this man got trapped in a box, and youll never guess what he did to get out" i kept trying to explain to people that there is definitely an accent/cadence that youtubers/tiktokers speak in to try and retain you and i just feel absurdly aggressive about it. Kinda like the way you feel when the sound of someone smacking their food and chewing with their mouth open while breathing heavy. All in all, thank you for this. I feel much better. But now i expect people will start copying you and covering this topic. And now im wishing that wouldve covered it in like 2020 when i noticed it lol.

[@GSutton]

Seriously - every single one of them! Who was the first, and who the the first to copy it and get that ball rolling, because I believe I'm entitled to compensation for all the trauma it's caused when mindlessly scrolling!

[@AntiMason]

@@GSutton It truly is infuriating.

[@angrybirdie999]

Same!! He perfectly summarized all those things which were vaguely annoying me, but I couldn't give them any names or descriptions. As a foreigner, I used to assume that maybe it's something that Americans do and it shouldn't drive me mad the way it does. But now that I know it all is just TikTok things, I feel so validated. I even went through some kind of emotional catharsis when he brought up that "mouse" gesture. I'm both extremely irritated and somewhat hypnotized by the way women clench those long acrylic nails of theirs. Christ! Uptalk + nails = I can barely focus on anything they say.

[@AntiMason]

@angrybirdie999 yeah it's not an American thing but our youth is basically getting raised by Tiktok instead of the parents and you can already see it spreading like a virus. Non of them can see it and the parents think it's harmless but it's intentional, I mean, look who owns it :/ if you really wanted to dumb down a generation to come in so many ways, this is the new propaganda and Americans are so niave and malleable to it.

[@BlowinFree]

@@angrybirdie999I seriously thought I was alone in my frustration about this silly talk and clacking nails! Now they have started to tap stiff with those plastic nails and it’s making my skin crawl

[@TomWylde]

The way that you're doing the voice in bits while making this video as well 😂

[@alexandraw.4012]

I thought the hands were because everybody's wearing really long nails and they like clicking them 😅

[@sunraiii]

Whole video was super entertaining - great stuff!

[@alziscool]

i love your videos, they're so chill but informative

[@jasminec_]

Benedict I agree with every single thing you said in this video. It's so refreshing to hear someone intelligent give witty and analytical takes on something whilst being funny. I'm a bit tired of people molly coddling and walking on eggshells so much that everything goes through a filter, it's so refreshing to hear someone say "I find this thing annoying" why is that so rare now 😂 Love this channel and agree you definitely all deserve way more success with this channel 🤗

[@blahblahblahEMILY]

i love this channel

[@applecinnamon2112]

This video was one of the best subjects I’ve seen recently, besides my favorite topics lol. This was spot on and I thought I was crazy watching different people how they film 🤣🤣🤣

[@the_crewchef]

This was brilliant, loved it 😂

[@zonule_]

I hope this channel never ends

[@jaynaneeya]

I would watch way more videos if more people talked like Benedict

[@rosem6604]

Heh, thanks for this. As an early Gen-Xer, quite tired and cranky and social media except youtube I found your video reassuring. I don't have IG or Tiktok at all but I get glimpses of content from there through YT videos. The 'accents', but mostly the hand gestures, drive me bonkers! I come from the Mediterranean. We speak with our hands so I'm no stranger to gesturing but these 'influency' ones - I can't. I feel a bit better to know that it's not (just) my ancient brain that views these things as unusual and annoying. Phew and thanks again.

[@Cm_xo11]

This is one of the funniest videos I've seen in a while. Probably because it's so true lol.

[@fruit6946]

My housemate has a tiktok accent, it drives me insane. But other examples are radio voice, TV voice, audiobook voice, the transatlantic accent, etc. This isn't a new phenomenon but it's possible that this the first time it's so widespread.

[@halliehesse3732]

Oh this one is a chuckler

[@lillywitch978]

Great compilation of observations 10/10

[@OnyieSings]

As a voice teacher, first… you have an incredible voice with crazy control… and second, for this video 🤌🏾! I already know it’s going to get a ludicrous amount of rewatches from me! I LOVE the subject and you are cracking me up! 😅👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@missieinthemiddle]

I think that young people these days who are on social media are definitely being influenced by various accents. I and my husband have different NY accents, and our son who is Gen Z, and also grew up in NY, does not. I don't know what his accent is. lol There is a little bit of NY, but he also pronounces certain words differently.

[@SL-lz9jr]

This isn’t a new thing. As your audience grow you naturally want to neutralize your voice to appeal to a broader audience. It’s not always intentional. I feel like this is just the TikTok version of news broadcaster voice.

[@TheFascinatingFangirl]

You nailed every impression my goooooodness

[@theproperty541]

This was the best set of impressions I have ever seen!

[@Thomashorsman]

I hate the ‘Top 10 List’ voice where every sentence ends with the pitch lowering at the end