We all know TikTok, everyone’s favorite app to pass the time.

A seemingly endless pit of funny and relatable videos.

However, every now and again, you’re bound to see a trend arise, whether that be something such as the milk crate challenge, the cinnamon challenge, or something similar; things like that always pop up.

Sometimes, you may even give it a try yourself.

While those are not directly related to it, they feed into TikTok’s conformity issue.

The official definition of conformity is “behavior in accordance with socially accepted conventions or standards”, so basically agreeing with something for the sheer purpose of fitting in, which occurs a lot on TikTok.

One of the most well known and influential instances of conformity on TikTok was Khaby Lame.

Khaby Lame was a TikTok who reacted to funny or relatable videos and made the fame face every time, without speaking a single word.

This got the attention of millions of people, skyrocketing him into hundreds of millions of followers. And eventually, he got close to the most followed individual on TikTok, Charli D’Amelio.

She was most known for her viral dances, which started waves of trends on the app.

Eventually, a large portion of TikTok came together, and collectively decided that everyone on the app should mass follow Khaby Lame in order for him to pass Chali D’amelio in followers.

And eventually, on June 23, 2022, he did end up passing her, reaching 142.7 million followers.

This just goes to show how prominent conformity is on the app.

Another huge instance of conformity happened recently, involving a TikToker who goes by the names Vexbolts.

You see, Vexbolts was a very love-hate case among TikTok.

His main content was Fortnite content, which captivated his audience.

However, he also began recreating memes, which a large sum of people seem to dislike, finding it annoying and unfunny.

There was a meme known as the “let him cook meme”, which Vexbolts did in his own voice, which skyrocketed his popularity.

He was disliked so much to the point where people began finding him funny, and he gained popularity, in fact, over one million followers.

 However, another TikToker by the name of  “unexmployedcrashout” made a video saying for everyone to follow Vexbolts, then mass unfollow him, in order to “not bring him into 2024”.

This plan seemingly worked, with his account quickly going from 1 million followers, to 8 million followers in the span of a week. 

However, not everybody ended up unfollowing him, resulting in him having over double the amount of followers he initially had, with a whopping three million followers.

That also goes to show Tik Tok’ issue with conformity, mass unfollowing someone solely because one person made a video saying to do it. 

The majority of people on TikTok seem hive-minded, simply doing the act of what one person says, whether it’s mass following someone in Khaby Lames case, or mass unfollowing, in Vexbolts’ case.

This issue is something that is most likely never going to be resolved, but hopefully it does in the near future.