Recently, the became one of the most baffling and popular trends on TikTok. The trend was started by an OF creator named Foopahh and sees women flash the camera very briefly in a way that the app’s auto moderators can’t seem to detect.
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For OnlyFans models on TikTok, the idea is that flashing the viewer might drive them to click on their page, search for their username or go to their Instagram page and eventually end up on their OF page. While the trend only became widely popular in February 2023, Foopahh was doing it as early as January and videos of people participating in the trend were popping up on FYPs and gaining millions of views before getting taken down.
Many TikTokers have expressed shock that the trend was allowed to get so popular for so long, inspiring memes about TikTok moderators sleeping on the job or simply not caring about the trend. Ultimately, the Foopahh trend highlights yet another flaw in TikTok’s auto-moderation practices. The trend has died down quite a lot since February, but flashing videos still seem to be popping up occasionally. Now that TikTokers know they can get away with this with the right amount of tact, it’s unlikely it will ever go away completely.
The Foopahh trend is ultimately a bit of a double-edged sword for OF creators on TikTok. While some have praised it as being a good way to drive subscribers, others have criticized it as being a step too far. , an OF creator, suggested in February that the trend is a “bad look” for OF creators and only serves to make moderation tougher on them. Whether that’s true or not remains to be seen.
The Foopahh trend stands as an ultimate example of the effects that uneven and flawed censorship has had on TikTok, but it’s only the tip of the iceberg. We don’t know for sure that it’s all the auto-moderators’ fault, or why exactly it’s been able to go viral for so long, but whatever the reason, TikTok has made it that they don’t want nudity on the platform. Yet, they are allowing thousands of videos with explicit nudity to enter FYPs across the globe.
