What is ‘TikTalk’? The bizarre Kim Kardashian-inspired accent may be the future of language #shorts

Having been under the heavy influence of celebrities and viral tastemakers for the past few decades, it’s no wonder that rising Gen Z and millennial social media starlets have collectively adopted the signature cadences of VIPs such as Kim Kardashian, Britney Spears and Ariana Grande. NY Post reporter Asia Grace shares this story.

It’s a voice-mimicking trend known as “TikTalk” or “influencer accent” — and a linguistics specialist warned that it’s likely to be the future of the English accent.

“’TikTalk’ is a feature that’s been spreading as an innovative thing young people do — and seeing it online might encourage the continued spread of these features,” University of Warwick linguistics professor Christopher Strelluf recently explained to NationWorld of the buzzy phenomenon.

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[pbr_and_b]

Yeah, it’s called the “valley accent” and has been around for decades. Riveting journalism

[Knightcraft]

Me: females have a hive mind
Females: No we don't!
Me: Stanley cups craze even though it had traces of lead in it and when Beyonce released her first country album cowboy hats sales rose 200%

[L_Jan_Turner]

Something I hear all the time is "up talk", people ending each sentence like it's a question.
It's so irritating that some companies won't hire you if you talk like that.

[DFSLJC]

That’s exactly how a witch’s spells work.

[RitaGlab-duop]

Literally no one talks like that naturally and two of the people aren’t even talking like that that they put as an example. And this is not called the Tik talk this accent was before TikTok and even made and be for real people are not gonna talk like that in the future 😐

[JetLagRecords]

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[ghostmantagshome-erpb]

Girls talked like this LONG before tiktwat. There were t.v shows about it.

[Angrbodha]

O no that Just sounds annoying and awfull😂

[Jesus_equals_LOVEnForgviness]

I think what she probably meant was it could become the new "prestige" English accent. That is to say the accent seen as the ideal and proper way of speaking. I hope not 😂

[ThePretendJudge]

I grew up in Hawaii and was made fun of when I moved to the continental USA for having a similar-ish accent. It took forever to get out of speaking that way. ig if you want to sound, or aspire to be lackadaisical then this is the trend for you.