To those who don’t spend 90 percent of their days on TikTok, opening the app can feel like touching down in an unfamiliar land — foreign language included.
TikTok has been the breeding ground of some of the strangest and most incomprehensible slang of our time. Am I cheugy? Are my oomfies shitting on me behind my back?
I do not know, nor will I care to learn.
Some of these things are just language evolving. I get that. However, others appear to be marking the beginning of a complete devolution, a return to an early form of humanity in which we only communicate by grunting and striking each other over the head with rocks.
Given this, it’s not surprising that the latest TikTok trend is literally just speaking in gibberish.
For a while now, users on TikTok have taken to the platform to show off their “light language” or “starseed language,” which is just a glorified way of saying they’re “speaking in tongues” or “making up bullshit.”
Of course, this form of speech has a fairly long history. It’s been a part of many major religions, and texts going back generations reference the idea of just letting your vocal chords go ham for a little bit.
As far as what these people are actually getting out of it is concerned, your guess is as good as mine. Some claim these light languages have healing properties; others say that they’re beaming in transmissions from a far away alien race. A few just feel like they’re just doing it to have a good time.
If you’re interested in making your own light language, there are plenty of tutorials on TikTok. Or, if you want to make things easier for yourself, simply flip over a shampoo bottle and read the ingredients. I assure you, the results are close enough.
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