---
title: "Climate Change Is Officially a TikTok Meme"
description: "#GlobalWarming Tik Tok videos are raising awareness for climate change. These TikToks are a call to action to fight climate change."
date: "2019-08-08"
modified: "2019-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Dan Robitzski"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/danrobitzski"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/climate-change-tiktok-meme"
categories:
  - "Climate Change"
  - "Environment"
  - "Science & Energy"
tags:
  - "climate change"
  - "the digest"
  - "tiktok"
---

# Climate Change Is Officially a TikTok Meme

![#globalwarning videos on Tik Tok show people slowly melting in the heat as global climate change gets worse and worse around them.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/climate-change-tiktok-meme.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: TikTok/Victor Tangermann\</em\>*

## Global Trend

The trendy teens of TikTok have turned global warming into a meme.

The [shortform video app](<https://futurism.com/ftc-tiktok-record-fine-spying-pre-teens>) is full of posts tagged with #GlobalWarning, *[BBC News ](<https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-49202886>)*[reports](<https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-49202886>). In them, people convey a future ravaged by environmental destruction, typically by pretending to cough up garbage, covering themselves in waste plastic, and applying disease-like makeup. The videos, TikTok users told *BBC*, are intended to be a sort of call to action to [stop the worst effects](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/doomsday-climate-report-leaders-failed>) of climate change — but, to be fair, it might also just be teens trolling us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b7ez97aCoE

## Looking Ahead

A typical #GlobalWarning video on TikTok shows a person jumping through time, either growing gradually sweatier, more covered in garbage, or otherwise distressed about the dire situation unfolding around them.

Russian TikTok creator Anna Bogomolova told *BBC* that her video was intended to make people aware of just how bad things could get if humanity doesn't alter its course.

"People need to be aware of the problem for things to change," Bogomolova told *BBC*. "We've got to take action. Our lives depend on it."

"Small changes can go a long way and it's up to us to keep the planet alive," she added.

**READ MORE:** [TikTok videos spread climate change awareness](<https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-49202886>) \[*BBC News*\]

**More on Tiktok:** *[Bangladesh Declares “War on Pornography,” Blocks TikTok](<https://futurism.com/bangladesh-social-media-war-pornography>)*

## Author
Dan Robitzki is a senior reporter for Futurism, where he likes to cover AI, tech ethics, and medicine. He spends his extra time fencing and streaming games from Los Angeles, California.

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