It's the season to whinge about Irish-Americans chewing up the culture and regurgitating it as a clotted mass of electric-green spew. Nowhere is this habit more prevalent than among the creators of TikTok, writes Donald Clarke:
The results of the new TikTok 'ancestor' trend are almost always a crime against the nation. Photograph: Stu99/iStockHappy incoming Saint Patty’s Day. It is the season to whinge about Irish-Americans chewing up the culture and regurgitating it as a clotted mass of electric-green spew. Nowhere is this habit more prevalent than among the creators of TikTok.
The format is consistent. An American person, playing themselves, does something vaguely modern. We then cut to “my Irish ancestors” – actually the creator in a shawl – raising an objection or offering qualified support. TikTok veterans will be used to the convention of recycling the same, often startlingly incongruous, piece of music used by an early contributor to the trend.
A few themes dominate. Our ancestors were proud of their child-bearing hips. Those same female ancestors were not allowed to have a job . Our ancestors were permanently drunk. Our ancestors were consistently violent. Those last two come together in a bizarre clip that has a fellow in the sort of laced-up shirt painted heroes wear on the cover of romance novels confronting his descendant drinking Irish whiskey.
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