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It's been a minute since TikTok crashed the global social media party in 2018. While many tiktok viral hand challenge dance challenges spring up from current hits, one of the most popular ones on the app was actually set to a song released over 20 years ago. In October, user @minecrafter2011 recorded a dance to the 1996 Andrew Gold song "Spooky Scary Skeletons," and it went viral.

Like the dearly departed app Vine, encouraged creativity within very specific limits. Rather than the 6 seconds that defined Vine, on , and now TikTok, 15 seconds is the magic number. That's the upper limit for recording within the app, but users can string those clips together to make stories of up to 60 seconds long. Users also have the option of uploading longer videos that were not recorded within the app.

Ever imagine how ice sculptures are made, bobby pins packaged, and broccoli bundled? There are so many weird and wonderful jobs out there and now many of them are being showcased on TikTok. One user, Kaitlyn Reed put together a Twitter thread on everyday and mysterious jobs. Some may seem mundane and tedious (like aforementioned bobby pin packaging) but displayed incredible skills by the people who do them. Watch and be amazed.

Old Town Road " rode onto the charts on the back of hundreds of thousands of short TikTok clips using the song. Today, it has been used as the soundtrack to more than ten million snippets. But while Lil Nas X is surely a TikTok fan, not every musician whose tracks are looping on the site is getting paid - and they range from Drake and Ariana Grande to unheard-of independent musicians.