#musical.ly

[blueberrbea]

i miss musical.ly i hate tiktok

#musical.ly #thoughts #girlblogging #tiktok #just chatting #2014 nostalgia #2014 vibes #moots <3 #aesthetic #2014 aesthetic #2014 tumblr #2014 girl #kawaii

[mirrorballhughes]

just heard a song from musical.ly and i got thrown back to that era and i miss when musical.ly was called musical.ly like whos tiktok??

#idk im just rambling #musical.ly #tiktok

[jorjaa444]

💅👑🤍🎀

#2014 aesthetic #bring back 2014 #victoria secret #king kylie #musical.ly

[iamsobloggingthis]

Musical.ly (God knows how much hours i spent on this app) 🥹

#musical.ly #2015 #2015 aesthetic #trends #snapchat

[cellinoandballs]

#ew twee is taking up too much space #jersey shore #ke$ha #twilight #swag era #musical.ly #nerd-core #grunge #american eagle #bohemian coachella #tweels #king kylie #galaxy #poll #polls #guess who has polls now

[13sexondofwinter]

#crabs #blair waldorf #musical.ly #2014 tumblr #arctic monkeys #tumblr girls #g easy

[paisholotus]

Y'all wanna know what's crazy to me? TikTok used to be Musical.ly. And I remember one day looking for Musical.ly and couldn't find it on my phone no more.

I literally went into playstore and type it in and all that popped up was TikTok, and I was like "wtf is a TikTok?" Like I literally got the TikTok update on my phone didn't know that it was Musical.ly 🤣🤣

That shit is crazy to me. I'm rambling lmao ignore me

#black reader #black writers #black representation #black tumblr #self post #tumblelog #black excellence #poc reader #black girls #poc writer #tiktok #musical.ly

[thrarm]

hahahaha im so hilarious

#star wars #musical.ly #obi wan kenobi #social media #tiktok #music #meme #star wars memes #old meme #musical.ly meme #tumblr #funny #tiktok meme #ewan mcgregor

[tooth-fucker]

hey! first post but i have been obsessed with the internet and internet culture for around 10 years now. i have been mulling over this topic for MONTHS, but today i started seeing a HUGE influx of “musical.ly”s on tiktok, something that just started today. i wanted to share my opinions on a platform that will actually understand what i mean. all the friends i’ve messaged and even my own parents think i’m crazy.

and cont. from the notes app:

“and personally, i think the only thing that’s going to keep this going is if we continue to bring back more musical.ly audios. this won’t be just a one-off thing, this “musical.ly” trend will continue and evolve into early tiktok audios, once again leaving us standing at the doorstep of the 2020s. when we open that we’re going to realize we have hit a dead end. you can’t make nostalgia nostalgic. and that’s all we have been doing these past three years. i know i’m talking in loops and skipping around a lot but my god i’ll scream this from the rooftops if i must. as someone who spent their entire childhood on this internet seeping in memes and irony and curated content, i personally feel like i have a lot of knowledge on the topic. i see memes constantly being upcycled, “created” to fit the new climate of the world, but dude it’s the same damn joke i saw at ten years old sitting on the floor of my bedroom with my sister, scrolling through tumblr, wattpad and youtube on my ipad

“and can we talk about MM3? melanie coming back is a HUGE part of this, and depending on when her album releases it can completely alter the trajectory and impact of these trends. the idol and ICON of the 2010s tumblr music genre. talking about issues that were very prevalent in that time (plastic surgeries, being “fake” to look perfect online,) and near none of these things apply to media today (“clean girl” aesthetic, kim removing her implants, the reverting back to “natural”, imperfection creating a sense of “realness” in online media today). but she’s coming back, and with that she’s either going to bring light to issues with society today (something that will make this 2010s aesthetic hit mainstream media, since radio stations love pretending like “woke music” is something new or exciting (ex. see the victoria secret song, which i hate with a burning passion)), or hit some chord with gen z that will further solidify us falling into a millenialization, pretending like we’re still relevant and our opinions matter when they don’t (sorry millennials i love y’all 😭) either way this is going to skyrocket her popularity (like K-12). she couldn’t have come back at a more perfect time. and to top it all off, it’s almost even better she changed her aesthetic, just to really drive home the whole “we’re doing the same exact shit we’ve gone through but BETTER”.

“internet culture has changed too much. 2010s were a time of seeping in hatred, eating disorders, inside jokes, pretending to be “different”, not like other girls. today’s culture is all about being on the same level playing field as each other. we’re not going to become “problematic” again guys. the 2010s is either going to transform modern culture again or dissipate into obscurity.””

i’m done. thanks y’all. sorry i’m a mess.

#serious discussions #this is serious #2010s emo #2010s nostalgia #trends #tiktok #musical.ly #trending #tumblr #someone help #i’m losing it #all hope is gone #we are stuck in a loop

[caprisun-and-novocaine]

not going to lie, i kind of miss musical.ly. not only was the app a fun concept, it also marks an interesting time in internet history, emerging after the fall of vine and marking the beginnings of tiktok.

ALT: gif of musical.ly creator baby ariel taking and moving around in a dramatically positive manner faced in the center of the frame.

TLDR: brief history of musical.ly becoming tiktok with some of my personal viewpoints/bias/opinion thrown in. made for fun, not to be quoted

i particularly like musical.ly history as i joined the app in it’s early days, when it was popular enough to have “crowned” “musers” (verified system) but not too popular to be mainstream. 

watching the app i joined as a joke in middle school become one of the most popular websites in 2021 used by millions of people is mind blowing to me.

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when musical.ly turned into tiktok around 2018, it was a true cultural shift. dance content became pov memes and joke duets that eventually formed into tiktok as we know it today, with all it’s good and awful. but, of course, tiktok became tik-toxic (lol) as the disdain of “cringey” content started to take place often in comment sections. sadly ironic - the audience that has been accumulated - for an app that once favored and was known for fast speed lip-sync content.

we’re in different times now, but i hope within some’s disdain for “cringe” we do not lose sight of the place tiktok once was:

to “live passionately, live musical.ly” 

ALT: gif of musical.ly twins lisa and lena dancing robotically in sync faced in the center of frame in contrasting outfits.

all gifs are sourced from google images! 

#also #cringe culture is dead #musical.ly #musically #tiktok #live.ly #remember live.ly???? #when livestreams had to done in a separate app #hit different #gif #gifs #internet history #2016 #2016 internet #2015 #2010s #10s #2010s culture #2010s kids #2010s nostalgia #social media #social media history #old social media #2010s internet #apps #tiktok history #tiktok origins #og tiktok #app history #ode to muscial.ly

[imsosry-sir]

every so often i’ll hear a song that will violently transport me back to That Musical.ly Era (which i will entirely forget about until the memory is triggered deep within my brain by some song that was trendy on there) and i will have to stop myself from physically shuddering

#like… the levels of cringe rlly were.. #i mean just off the charts rlly #quite commendable #(i think i’m glad i happened to forget the password to my account before it became tiktok) #musical.ly #tiktok #cringe

[voidwithtoomanygooglyeyes]

People complained about Vine and the dangerous trends people were doing on it.

People complained about Musical.ly and the dangerous trends people were doing on it.

People are complaining about TikTok and the dangerous trends people are doing on it.

Internet history has been doomed to repeat itself.

#history repeats itself #vine #musical.ly #tiktok #social media

[lordmorganshnorfor]

10-3-23

i remember taking this and feeling like clairo????? what.

#indie sleaze #bedroom pop #bedroom #clairo #claire cottrill #2017 #2010s #musical.ly #girly #Spotify

[bluemoonowl]

i still can't get over to the fact that how cringy tiktoks I used to make when tiktok existed in our country lol.No wonder why none of my seniors wanted to follow me on my tiktok account and i am grateful that this shit doesn't exist anymore but I still miss musical.ly.i can assure you that many of the gen-z's still don't know that musical.ly did existed before.For them,it would be like the existence of dinosaur species lol.I still find this whole scenario lowkey funny.

#random #tiktok #unpopular opinion #musical.ly #lol #funny #humour

[my-t4t-romance]

just found this in my camera roll from 2017

a relic of one of my more morbid hyperfixations (gravestone inscriptions)

#mossy’s musings #musical.ly #musically #gravestones #death mention #adhd #hyperfixation #neurodivergent #neurodiverse #hyperfixations #tiktok #video

[effervescentleaf]

voltron and tiktok so narrowly avoided each other but imagine the absolute chaos that would have been

#leafposts #i think musical.ly was around then but like it was entirely cringey lipsyncs at that point #voltron