What does the \u2018Ben Stage\u2019 mean on TikTok? Unsplash: Olivier BergeronMany TikTok users have made videos referencing a \u2018Ben Phase\u2019 or a \u2018Ben Stage,\u2019 but what does this actually mean? Here\u2019s everything you need to know about the trend. TikTok is at the center of viral content on social media, with millions of users going on the app daily to browse their For You Page, interact with creators, and share content of their own. There have been a number of different inside references or jokes that have become full trends on the platform, but if you\u2019re out of the loop, some of these could be confusing. A number of people on TikTok have made videos referencing something called a \u2018Ben Stage,\u2019 such as user iamgubster who went viral for her video captioned \u201cseeing any girl go through her Ben stage.\u201d In the background, the lyrics \u201cyou better run\u201d from the song \u2018Dog Days Are Over\u2019 by Florence + The Machine. The video garnered over 1.2 million likes and 11 million views, but some were left baffled about the meaning. What is a \u2018Ben Stage\u2019 on TikTok? Essentially, a Ben Stage refers to a point in someone\u2019s life in which they dated a person called Ben, and many people seem to have had negative experiences with people who have that name. Many commenters agreed with the Ben Stage phenomenon. \u201cMy ben stage put me in therapy,\u201d one comment with over 4000 likes read. \u201cMy ben stage ruined me,\u201d read another with over 13,000. However, many users have also been sticking up for people called Ben, with one user writing: \u201cBen is my favourite.\u201d \u201cHey, mine hasn\u2019t done anything,\u201d said another. Videos referencing the \u2018Ben Stage\u2019 are continuing to pop up and gain traction on TikTok, with many relating to the bizarrely specific trend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What does the \u2018Ben Stage\u2019 mean on TikTok? Unsplash: Olivier BergeronMany TikTok users have made videos referencing a \u2018Ben Phase\u2019 or a \u2018Ben Stage,\u2019 but what does this actually mean? Here\u2019s everything you need to know about the trend. TikTok is at the center of viral content on social media, with millions of users going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}