Source: TikTok/@stevenisanonymous
It happened to all of us. You watch a video on TikTok and don’t get confused. Perhaps you’ll watch it again and try to figure it out. There will be Clarity can usually be found. But otherwise it will remain a mystery and the comments will make you even more embarrassed.
Today we dive into a rather obscure conundrum: what exactly is the “hiccup effect”?
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What is the hiccup effect? Research.
Our mystery begins here. Steven(@stevenisanonymous) shared a TikTok and is seen quipping along with MIKA’s “Big Girls (You Are Beautiful)” line.
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You can use any audio on TikTok, but most videos that use that particular clip of “Big Girls (You Are Beautiful)” are plus-size influencers celebrating their bodies. Stephen doesn’t seem to fit into that category, but perhaps he’s showing his support for women with larger bodies.
All that aside, the comments section is what gets our attention, because there’s a hiccups story. who hiccups?
“Hiccup effect,” one user commented. Thousands of people liked your comment.
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Thousands of people liked the comment, but others reacted with confusion. One user wrote:
The embarrassment was genuine.
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In fact, TikTok creator Nikki D’Elia (@sweetnik11) dedicated an entire video to finding out what people mean when they write about the hiccups effect in Steven’s comments section. . video.
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The good news is that people have really considered what they believe to be a hiccups effect in relation to Steven. The bad news is that everyone seemed to have a different definition. Let’s see what they said.
What is the hiccup effect… Hiccup in How to Train Your Dragon?
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The hiccups effect is Stephen It looked like Hiccup, a character from How to Train Your Dragon. Considering the picture of Hiccup below, you can definitely see the resemblance.
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The hiccup effect is…glow up?
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One user shared another possible definition. Perhaps the hiccup effect refers to glow-up?
Stephen doesn’t show any change in his videos, so the idea might seem a bit far-fetched, but there’s some truth to it. You can see that the brilliance increased to . Does the comment on the hiccup effect refer to that?
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By hiccup effect, do you mean “a little feminine, a little bit dobby…”?
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Last but not least, does the hiccup effect have anything to do with Steven’s identity? Posing pointing to a man who appears to be reading the Magic Tree House series. This seems like a very niche label, but at the same time, isn’t it all on his TikTok?
So you have it. These are the three possible meanings of the hiccups effect TikTok spoke of. There must have been a problem with the definition of this effect.
