What killed Mickey Mouse? TikTok trend goes viral Unsplash: Miranda CampbellTikTok users have been filming their reactions to Google searching the phrase \u2018What killed Mickey Mouse\u2019 as part of a new trend that\u2019s going viral on the platform. All different kinds of trends go viral on TikTok on a near-daily basis, featuring everything from popular dances to food hacks. One type of trend sees users Google searching how certain popular characters such as Dora or Barney the Dinosaur \u2018died,\u2019 filming their inevitably horrified reactions. The latest term that has turned into a viral trend on the app is \u2018What killed Mickey Mouse?\u2019 with videos featuring people\u2019s reactions garnering hundreds and thousands of views. What killed Mickey Mouse? Contrary to the trend, you will be relieved to hear that the popular cartoon character is not actually canonically dead. However, searching for what \u2018killed\u2019 him brings up some slightly horrifying results, including that he was \u201ckilled when his heart exploded.\u201d This is because many have discovered a page from the \u2018List of Deaths\u2019 wiki that documents all the deaths that happen in popular media. There is a page dedicated to \u2018The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse,\u2019 an animated series about the character on Disney+. The page lists all the ways that characters including Mickey \u2018died\u2019 on the show, though it is of course only cartoon violence. Some of the ways Mickey \u2018died\u2019 include, \u201ckilled when his heart exploded,\u201d and \u201cdisintegrated when the Beast yelled at him.\u201d The trend has garnered millions of views and likes so far, with commenters sharing their reactions to the bizarre search results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What killed Mickey Mouse? TikTok trend goes viral Unsplash: Miranda CampbellTikTok users have been filming their reactions to Google searching the phrase \u2018What killed Mickey Mouse\u2019 as part of a new trend that\u2019s going viral on the platform. All different kinds of trends go viral on TikTok on a near-daily basis, featuring everything from popular […]<\/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-64257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64257","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=64257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}