TikTok’s ‘however there was as soon as a time’ pattern explores our wilder, youthful days

TikTokkers have jumped on a pattern largely used to point out off their youthful, wilder days.

Scrolling via your FYP on TikTok, you have seemingly seen the “there was a time” pattern. The beats of the pattern are constant: 1) you present somebody or one thing as they’re now, 2) you say “…however there was a time,” 3) you present how they have been. For plenty of of us, this implies displaying that whereas, sure, they’re now a mother or father with a 9-5, they have been as soon as a partier (or one thing of that ilk). For others, the posts can tackle a extra melancholy tone, the place they keep in mind one thing they miss. And, after all, there are some TikToks following the pattern which can be simply bizarre and foolish.

Listed here are a number of about being settled now, however individuals who hit the bars again within the day.

However there are different kinds of posts utilizing the pattern, usually with totally different TikTok sounds. Here is one about lacking enjoying hockey.

Or there are mother and father posting their youngsters rising up.

Or there are jokes about good canines.

Or there are folks posting their earlier careers.

Or, as these posts trace at, there are some of us utilizing it to publish about relationships that ended or folks they’ve misplaced.

Briefly, the pattern explores all of the methods time modifications us. And for a lot of of us, meaning shedding their wild facet.