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I've seen the tiktok meme taken up on twitter, but somehow it's always the same song (Wellerman) and only about 2-3 variants of it being reposted.

Is this a bigger thing with more variety that's going on on tiktok, or is it just the one that went viral with a few variants alongside?

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I'm not on Tiktok, but I've seen a few others posted on Twitter, like this one: https://twitter.com/EKingstonBooks/status/134990668753737318...

Not aware of the tiktok meme, however there are a few uk based acapella groups specializing in sea shanties. 'The longest johns' are one of my favorites.

"Wellerman" is certainly the most popular, but there have been several! Lately I've been seeing people take up "Leave Her Johnny", "The Last Shanty", and even some labor songs like "Process Man"/"The Chemical Worker's Song"

It's been surprisingly fun watching the various takes blow up on TikTok.

The in game song "Sea Shanty 2" has been one the bigger memes in the "Old-school Runescape" community ( a bigger community than you would expect)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJhF0L7pfo8&ab_channel=OldSc...

Yeah, it's a bit of a trend, there's more than this one song going round on tiktok

I know of this one, which is "Leave her Johnny".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fow61Zsn2s

For once I can actually get into something in the Zeitgeist. TikTok has something actually great - layering voices. Amazing. Never thought I'd say that about TikTok.

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