What is the December 22 incident on TikTok? Unsplash: Solen FeyissaTikTok users often reference something they call the December 22 incident, which often leaves viewers confused as to what it means. Here\u2019s everything you need to know about it. TikTok has become the prime destination for all the latest viral trends and memes, with new videos constantly being created and shared across the platform. Over the years, several different dates have ended up trending on the social media app. For example, the date \u2018April 24\u2019 went viral last year due to a disturbing hoax about the day, and in 2022, \u2018October 1st\u2019 blew up thanks to a popular song by Girl in Red. Now, many videos referencing a \u2018December 22 incident\u2019 or \u2018TikTok slideshow incident\u2019 are popping up on people\u2019s For You Pages, and it\u2019s become the subject of ongoing speculation among users. What happened on December 22 on TikTok? The December 22 incident, or the TikTok slideshow incident, refers to the date when TikTok slideshows sharing adult content hidden in the slides were posted without moderators taking them down. Noah Glenn Carter made a video explaining why this date is the \u201cmost infamous day in TikTok history.\u201d \u201cOn that day, many TikTok users found out they could post [adult content] if they posted [it] using TikTok\u2019s slideshow effect,\u201d he said. \u201cThe [adult content] went mega, mega, viral,\u201d he continued. \u201cFor some reason, TikTok\u2019s algorithm started recommending it to everyone on the app, and videos that were just straight [adult content] were getting millions upon millions of views and many of them weren\u2019t even getting taken down.\u201d Per Know Your Meme, several slideshow videos containing graphic content and nudity, especially hentai images, began circulating on December 22, 2022, before they all got taken down by December 25. While there\u2019s no official explanation as to how this incident happened, Noah believes that the moderation team was off for Christmas at the time, and couldn\u2019t take down the posts until they were back in office. Noah also pointed out that TikTok hasn\u2019t completely resolved this graphic content issue, as similar incidents have continued to occur. One popular example is the now-deleted Pok\u00e9mon 777 filter which would flash an NSFW image to users when applied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What is the December 22 incident on TikTok? Unsplash: Solen FeyissaTikTok users often reference something they call the December 22 incident, which often leaves viewers confused as to what it means. Here\u2019s everything you need to know about it. TikTok has become the prime destination for all the latest viral trends and memes, with new […]<\/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-64039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64039","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=64039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}