Hopecore is a relatively new meme trend on TikTok where folks are posting feel-good videos of wholesome clips edited together to audio by various popular musicians. The Hopecore meme trend began on ...

TikTok’s “hopecore” trend manufactured internet cheer. That is, until users turned on it. Videos labeled #hopecore once symbolized an unrelenting optimism for internet doomscrollers. The clips offered ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Queer friends siting around a table looking at a cell phone. The social media landscape has become a toxic wasteland full of ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born on TikTok and now spreading across every corner of social media, Hopecore is less a trend and more a collective exhale. It’s ...

In the past couple of weeks, I have seen a rise of “corecore” or “nichecore” TikToks on my For You page. Though that is not the focus of this article, from these two trends a subcategory of sorts has ...

Wanting was enough. For me, it was enough to live for the hope of it all. If there are any TikToks I am hoping to see at least once on my “For You” page every day, it’s the “Hopecore” videos that have ...

In a world that frequently feels overwhelming and uncertain, the new Internet cultural movement, popularized on platforms like TikTok and centered on the celebration of kindness, community, and joy in ...

Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...

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