- TikTok already has more than a billion and a half users around the world.
Since it’s costume season, a woman appeared in a “Peppa Pig” costume in a video on TikTok, causing a group of vegans to take offense.
We live in a moment in history in which TikTok is part of the popular language, due to the great influence it has generated, mainly among the new generations.
In mid-2021, it is known that the Chinese social network reached one billion monthly users and, in addition, it was consolidated as the favorite of young people and brands in terms of their marketing strategies. marketing digital.
In other words, Teens use TikTok the most today, but it’s not their only favorite social network.
A recent Pew Research Center survey of more than 1,000 adolescents between the ages of 13 and 17 in the United States announced that, along with TikTok and Snapchat, YouTube is one of the favorite networks of what we know as “Generation Z”.
From this perspective, it is not surprising that, day after day, a news story is accompanied by some TikTok record, especially when we talk about viral cases, which is, in the end, the peculiar characteristic of the Chinese social network.
In this context, it seems that the world is beginning to prepare for the next reign of TikTok, since the new generations have a greater preference for the short video social network and, in addition, according to a recent report, it is the most popular application. downloaded on mobile devices, as pointed out by the study Q2 2022: Store Intelligence Data Digest.
Woman appears in a “Peppa Pig” costume and infuriates vegans
Now, that TikTok is more popular among young people does not mean that older users cannot use the platform, as is the case with a female content creator who, through one of her videos, offended a group of vegans.
It all happened because, dressed in a “Peppa Pig” costume, she made a kind of tutorial by means of which she cooked pieces of bacon and immediately registered more than four million reproductions.
@the_devonmaid The return of Peppa! ?#Peppa Pig #bacon #cooking #comedy #fyp Thanks for 380k follows! ??
As a reaction to the video, a group of vegans stated that the images were very offensive, which is why the creator shared another video where she explained the reasons that led her, first, to dress up as “Peppa Pig” and with it cook pieces of bacon.
“You’re always going to find someone who hates it. A vegan made a video of me saying it’s not funny to make fun of pigs being killed for food.”
“My video wasn’t about cruelty to pigs, the pan wasn’t even on and it was funny because a woman my age was dressed up as a Peppa Pig for kids,” the woman explained.
Vegan food has gained ground in recent years and in Mexico this trend is one of the fastest growing. An investigation signed by Nielsen affirms that it is the country with the largest number of vegans and vegetarians in Latin America, where 28 percent of Mexicans say they do not consume meat and, of these, 19 percent are vegetarians and 9 percent vegans.