While nothing will likely ever fill the Vine-shaped hole in our hearts, TikTok’s stateside rise in recent months is certainly providing at least a temporary balm in these trying times. Today’s meme-savvy teens have really taken the app and ran with it (and the Chinese government can now apparently pinpoint exactly where they’re running with it, but that’s another story). The latest proof of TikTok’s utility can be found in these little rapscallions reminding us that Home Depot’s theme song is, somehow, a goddamn banger.
As New York Times’ reporter and current Nieman Fellow Taylor Lorenz noted on Twitter yesterday, “#homedepot” has consistently trended on the app for about three weeks straight now. Why would the Boomer equivalent of Toys R’ Us get so much screen time on an app primarily used by the very teens who resent them? Well, have you given their jingle a listen?