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As of 2025, there are 1.12 billion monthly active users on TikTok. And around the world, users spend an average of 95 minutes per day scrolling through the app. While the platform might be a great place to find recipe inspiration, learn fun facts about history or find out cleaning hacks that will change your life, it can also be a wonderful place to lose braincells.

Bored Panda has compiled a list of screenshots of the most idiotic things people have ever said and done on TikTok, so you’ll find all of these facepalm-worthy moments below. We’ll warn you right now, pandas, that this article might make you feel stupider as you scroll through. But it may also be a great push to finally get off social media and go spend some time outside instead!

#1 The Emojis Is The Cherry On Top

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#2 Having Different Colored Eyes Is Called Heterochromia

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#3 Absence Of Humour Detected

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Social media was once an innovative way for us to stay connected with old friends, find new people in our area and share updates about our lives with the internet. Today, however, it seems to have permeated every single aspect of life (and not in a good way).

Soax reports that the average social media user spends about 143 minutes per day on these apps, and YouTube is the site that sucks up the most of our time, with users watching for about 7 minutes and 25 seconds each time they log on. TikTok isn’t far behind though, as it’s in second place, with users tending to spend around 6 minutes scrolling every time they open the app.

#4 Oh God, This Thread Goes On For 600 More Replies

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#5 On The Miracle Of Birth

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#6 To Insult An Androgynous Person On TikTok

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So what are the impacts of spending so much of our time on social media? Well, you’ve probably noticed your own attention span shortening over the years, and maybe your short term memory isn’t what it used to be. And apparently, “TikTok brain” is a real thing.

Psychiatrist and professor of child health and behavior at King’s College London, Stephen Scott, CBE, told The Sun that the way social media overstimulates our minds can be harmful, particularly for young children.

“The bit of the brain that wants a reward quickly and immediate gratification gets more stimulated by this stronger use of screens and social media like TikTok, and their ability to sustain concentration is reduced,” Scott noted. “We haven’t got the studies yet, but many of the changes are those that are seen by people with Alzheimer’s disease.”

#7 Uncle Bill Cord

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#8 Found On TikTok

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#9 TikTok Comment Section

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While you can certainly use social media as an educational tool or as a place to stay up to date with current events, it really depends on how you’re engaging with it. And unfortunately, according to Psyche, many teens are intentionally seeking out “brain rot” content online.

Brain rot is the kind of stupid, silly content that might make you laugh or entertain you for a moment but isn’t teaching you anything or really adding any value to your life. And while this type of content might make you feel like you’re getting dumber as you consume it, it can also be a comforting oasis away from posts about war, politics and global tragedies.

#10 “No You Are Wrong”

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#11 Inspiration Date

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#12 I Know Not Everyone In The World Considers Antarctica A Continent, But A Country?

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Psyche also explains that brain rot content often helps teens destress. If they’re worried about exams, the state of the world, their futures and more, it can feel nice to just shut their brains off for a bit and laugh at a stupid Skibidi Toilet or Tralalero Tralala meme. After all, the World Health Organization reports that one in seven people between the ages of 10 and 19 struggles with a mental disorder, so if some stupid memes help them cope, who are we to stop them?

#13 The Gazebo Effect

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#14 Never Take Diet Tips From TikTok

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#15 TikTok User Discovers Parental Love And Emotions

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It is a commonly held belief that social media is making us stupider. And in certain ways, this may be true. Nowadays, the internet is full of fake news and rage-bait content that’s intended to be divisive and rile people up. It has increasingly become more and more challenging to distinguish which content has been created by AI and what’s been posted satirically. In this chaotic landscape, it’s easy for people to become overwhelmed and turn off their critical thinking skills altogether.

#16 Capital Of Scandinavia

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#17 Watch Out For Seals, They Are Deadly Carnivals

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#18 This Is How You Get Ants

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If you’re worried about social media making you stupider but you aren’t willing to permanently log off, you might want to learn how to engage with it in a way that won’t make you lose braincells. The algorithm will feed you the same type of content that you have a history of engaging with, but you can use that to your advantage. Seek out educational accounts, and unfollow any pages that don’t teach you something new.

#19 Tiktoker Licks “Jellyfish”, Doesn’t Know It Is A Portuguese Man ‘O War, One Of The Most Venomous Animals Known

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#20 Tiktoker Shames Kid For Being On Device At The Table, While She Records Random Strangers From Her Table To Post Online. Also, Bottom Left Of The Photo. What’s That? And At The Dinner Table

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#21 Tiktoker Claims She Got Plastic Surgery So Her Kids Would Inherit Her New Nose… And Everyone’s Saying The Same Thing

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It’s also wise to find social media accounts that will teach you about topics you know nothing about. Seeking out this kind of content opens you up to new perspectives that you may have never considered and guarantees that you’ll learn something new every time you log on. And it will likely push you to be even more curious about a wider range of topics!

#22 Fossil Videos On TikTok Are A Gold Mine For Christians That Believe The Earth Is Only 6-2k Years Old I Am Indeed Concerned About The American Education System

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#23 Influencer At A Wine Bar In Paris That Precisely States No Tiktoks On Their Storefront. This Wine Bar Had Become Famous On TikTok A Few Weeks Prior

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#24 Smartest Tiktoker

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Are you enjoying this hilarious list of facepalm-worthy moments from TikTok, pandas? Keep upvoting the ones that make you want to eliminate the app from your phone, and let us know in the comments below if you think social media is making you less intelligent. Then, if you’d like to check out another Bored Panda article featuring similar photos, look no further than right here!

#25 Fella On TikTok Doesn’t Know . On A Video Showing The Ice (Intercity-Express) Train Which Is A German Train Built By Siemens-Bombardier

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#26 Highway To Hell

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#27 More Of People Not Understanding They/Them Pronouns, But On TikTok

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#28 A Comment I Saw On A TikTok Where A Woman Asked If Her Armpit Hair Bothered Them

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#29 The Ending Was Like A Comedy Skit

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#30 There Are 6479 Likes On The Post

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#31 Just A Normal Day On TikTok

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#32 Found On TikTok And Literally Have No Words

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#33 These Gems Were On A TikTok Talking About Birth Control

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#34 Everyday I Get Closer To Leaving TikTok Forever

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#35 Nurse Mocks A Patient Experiencing Pain, Goes Viral And Gets Flamed

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#36 Omg I Really Hate People In TikTok

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#37 Only The Strong Don’t Bleed

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#38 Silly Person On TikTok Comments Thought Gold Wasn’t A Metal

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#39 People On TikTok Don’t Know What Cotton Looks Like

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#40 I Don’t Even Know What To Say

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#41 TikTok Be Like

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#42 Bmw Is European

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#43 The Irish Flag

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#44 Salmon Vanilla

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#45 The Whole Audience Ovulated, So Wholesome

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#46 Ducks Are Not Birds

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#47 TikTok Is Dumb

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#48 Laughing And Making The Uber Driver Wait For Her To Go Out “Aesthetically”

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#49 TikTok Horror Fan Don’t Watch Horror

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#50 On A TikTok Of A Mexican Lady Making The Dish Mexican Rice

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#51 Can You Imagine Being The 10th Person And Just Staring At The World Like “Wait, I Gotta Figure This All Out?”

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#52 Just Seen That An American In London Posted This Last Week

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#53 TikTok Is A Bad Math Goldmine

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#54 Guess I’m Not White Then

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#55 He’s Been Around Enough Women In His Life To Know About Tampons

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#56 “So Yeah I Don’t Care About Woman Outside Of Bed Stuff”

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#57 TikTok Kids Are Dumb

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#58 Found In The Comments Of A TikTok Talking About Growing Cacao Beans

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#59 Saw These Comments On TikTok Under A Vid Of A Barista Removing A Pigeon From A Cafe, I Have No Words

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#60 Gore May

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#61 Center Blocks

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#62 Time To Take A Lies Dictator Test

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#63 Eye Saucerless

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#64 The Earth Looks Pretty Flat To Me

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#65 What

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#66 Woman On TikTok Wasting Product And Breathing In Chemical Mixtures. She Refers To Everyone Who Calls Her Out As “Trolls”.

She also has kids in her house too which is a bit alarming to say the least.

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#67 On A TikTok About Evolution

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#68 Hygiene Is Overrated

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#69 Urgent Care Workers Fired Over Viral TikTok Of Staff Mocking Patients

TikTok shows several former employees at Clinic in Santa posing with bodily fluid left by patients who were seated on the paper covering of the exam tables.

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#70 This Is Unacceptable. I’m Shocked In Today’s Day And Age We Still Have Nurses Posting Stupid Things Like This On TikTok And Have Terrible Nurses

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#71 This Pos Telling Children On TikTok It’s Okay To Put Bleach In Their Eyes, Claiming It Changes Eye Color

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#72 On A TikTok Edit Of A Movie, Apparently Teenagers Cant Define Teen

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#73 Courter Pounder On TikTok

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#74 TikTok People Really Don’t Understand Jokes

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#75 Found On TikTok

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#76 Memorise

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#77 Tugger War

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#78 It Amazes Me How Many People Struggle With When Leap Years Are

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#79 While You’re Going About Your Day-To-Day Life, There’s Someone Who Uses TikTok To Reveal That They Think Vampires Are Actually Real

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#80 Do Not Steal From Target

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#81 How Dare A 600 Years Old Italian Town Not Be Car Centered, I Had To Walk 100 Steps

If you plan your trip by looking at what influencers say on Tiktok, it’s your fault. Amalfi is a medieval town, it was built around pedestrians when cars did not exist.