Make It Stop Storytimes

About

Make It Stop Storytimes is a TikTok trend that uses the song "Can't Stop Singing"^[2] from the 2013 Disney film Teen Beach Movie to tell a story about a time a TikToker had a medical emergency. The videos, which gained popularity in early July 2020, typically feature a TikToker acting out the beginning of a traumatic medical event. Many of the videos leave out the ending to the story to entice viewers to watch their other videos to find out what happened.

Origin

On June 16th, 2020, TikToker benrobiinson uploaded the earliest known Make It Stop Storytime video (shown below). The video that tells the story of one time the school nurse didn't believe he was sick gained over 95,800 likes in a month.

Spread

On June 29th, 2020, TikToker sad.carrot_ used the Teen Beach Movie song in their own storytime video about having to got to the hospital (shown below, left). The video garnered over 139,200 likes in 11 days. On July 8th, TikToker amandalynnvera uploaded a popular iteration about a life-saving surgery that received over 3.5 million likes in two days. The next day, mariagk193 uploaded another variation where she acts out finding a breast lump but leaves out the ending and captions it "should I do a part 2??" (shown below, right). The video accumulated over 2.9 million likes in a day. StayHipp^[1] published an article on the trend.

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