From Cosmopolitan · Tamara Fuentes · · 1m
Hotline Bling TikTok Trend Questions TV Ship
TikTok edits of fictional couples using Drake's song spark debate over healthy relationships.
In brief
TikTok edits of fictional couples using Drake's song spark debate over healthy relationships. TikTok users create 'Hotline Bling' edits for fictional couples from TV and movies, questioning whether their relationships are healthy. Originally reported by Cosmopolitan.
Hotline Bling Trend Starts
TikTok users create edits of fictional couples using drake's song to question relationship health.
“I remember the first time I saw it. I was just scrolling through TikTok in my living room when all of a sudden a familiar beat that I hadn’t heard in years started playing from my phone and Connell and Marianne suddenly appeared on my screen.”
Popular Couples Included
The trend features couples from normal people, la la land, the bear, severance, the notebook, pride and prejudice, and spider-man brand new day.
“Gale and katniss from the hunger games, seb and mia from la la land, syd and carmy from the bear, allie and noah from the notebook, pride and prejudice, spider-man brand new day”
Male POV Concerns
Videos often show male characters' perspectives, making it seem like female characters' relationship issues are the problem.
“Especially since the videos are typically being made from the male character’s POV, they make it seem like it’s the female character’s problem that all this negativity around the relationship is happening”
Relationship Health Questioned
The trend makes users question whether fictional couples have healthy relationships or are just forced yearning due to societal separation.
“Which makes me question whether any of these relationships are actually healthy. Sure, in the grand scheme of it all, most of these couples in their canon are perfectly matched together and fall more in line with the feisty rivals-to-lovers trope or more of a place of forced yearning due to being separated by something in society”
User Reaction
Users share shocked reactions after seeing the trend, sending videos to group chats.
“The ones that really hit though were pride and prejudice and spider-man brand new day, which i immediately sent to multiple group chats with shocked reactions”
In short
TikTok users create 'Hotline Bling' edits for fictional couples from TV and movies, questioning whether their relationships are healthy.
