Have you ever wondered what it would be like if your pet was a movie star? Well, one guy decided to make that dream a reality by green screening his cat into iconic scenes from famous movies.

The Youtube channel OwlKitty features an adorable, adopted cat called Lizzy who can be seen starring in major films such as The Shining, Jurassic Park, and Jaws. What started as a bit of fun has now turned into a massive following of 1.6 million subscribers on YouTube. Take a look at some of the videos below.

OwlKitty was adopted from a pet shelter back in 2017 and now that she has become so successful her owners have begun using the platform to support and promote the message “adopt, don’t shop.”

The OwlKitty channel also posts behind-the-scenes footage of how the videos are made, and many viewers are shocked to find out just how little is actually needed in order to produce the content. In one video OwlKitty’s owners explain how basic it really is.

“Our whole operation it’s very small scale, it’s very homemade. It’s just us here in our apartment with a green screen. It’s just a green sheet that we hang up.”

The owner of OwlKitty has also stated that her being really cute definitely helps with the success of the channel so if you think your pet is just as adorable then it might be time to try your hand at editing your pet into your favorite films.

A big part of TikTok‘s appeal is the vast array of effects users of the short-form video sharing platform can use to transform their self-filmed uploads into virtual memes with just a few swipes and clicks. Past effects trends have made users invisible, look like dogs, and even switch faces with another user. The latest trend asks, “Who are my parents?” But don’t worry, the app isn’t asking anyone to take a paternity suit.

The “Who are my parents?” effect, aka “Please adopt me,” generates the names of two famous people, supposedly based on how the person using it looks, that would be the most likely pair of celebrities to be their “parents.” Although the effect appears to be completely random, some users have found themselves going viral based on just how much they resemble the possible offspring of the fictional pairing.

If you’d love to find out who your fictional celeb parents are, good news! According to Dexerto.com, the effect, created by digital artist and TikTok user Allan Gregorio, is already built into the existing TikTok software so you can start using it immediately without having to download a third-party app, although it might take you several tries before you find what celeb couple you like the best.

To use the effect, follow the steps below:

1. Launch TikTok.
2. Go to the ‘Discover’ tab.
3. In the search bar at the top, type ‘Please adopt me,’ and search.
4. Tap the pink camera button to open the camera.
5. Press the record button, cross your fingers and wait for your result.

Good luck! Maybe you’ll get Tom Holland and Zedaya on your first try!

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What started as the title of a single by Atalanta rap artist Gunna has crossed over into the frenetic realm of TikTok trends as users across the platform are seeing the phrase “pushin P” flare-up along their timelines — generally accompanied by a bright blue capital “P” emoji.

Gunna released the single, featuring Future and Young Thug, earlier this month and it’s spent the past few weeks going viral with social media users posting the lyrics in posts on Twitter and Instagram. And now the title is a bonafide TikTok trend. But what does it all mean?

In a series of Tweets, the rapper has cited several examples of what can be considered “pushin P,” including “Risking your life to feed your family” and “putting your people in position.”

According to Dexerto.com, the phrase has its origins in Texas and in the Bay area and is a positive term meaning keeping it real. The “P” can stand for “player” or “paper.” Gunna further explained in an Instagram Live stream, “You see a lady at the door, you hold the door for the lady bro, that’s P. We pushing P, you feel me? I ain’t too tough, arguing with my partner about no money like, we ain’t going back and forth. That ain’t P.”

The phrase has ignited TikTok for the moment and seems to be fast becoming part of the platform’s new vernacular so it’s safe to say you can look forward to overhearing the words “pushin P” in a suburban strip mall near you quite soon.

A man is going viral on TikTok for all the wrong reasons, after he dated — and ghosted — several women in the New York City area.

The man, initially referred to as simply “West Elm Caleb,” has since been identified as Caleb Hunter. The initial nickname was born of his claims, on the dating app Hinge, that he is a furniture designer for the West Elm brand. He managed to go viral on TikTok not due to any funny content or a surprise viral sensation, but because of his serial dating habits.

It’s common practice for people on TikTok to use the app as a form of therapy, sharing their experiences and commiserating with others as they traverse life’s common hurdles. Thus, it was in no way odd when a trend began, as women shared their experiences dating in New York City. In the midst of typical complaints about dating apps and hook-up culture, however, an odd trend emerged. A number of women began to realize that their videos were all centered around the same man: West Elm Caleb.

The path to discovering West Elm Caleb’s serial dating habits began with a few innocent videos, all from women either gushing or complaining about their various dates with a mysterious New York man. Some referred to him by the moniker ‘West Elm Caleb,’ while others nixed a name and simply referenced a tall man from the city. One of the earliest, and most viral, comes from user @meemshou, a first-hand victim of West Elm Caleb.

In her video, @meemshou breaks down how she discovered Caleb’s serial dating habits. It began, as so many things do nowadays, on TikTok. She made a video joking about a “very tall Caleb” that she went on a date with, and it prompted a flood of feedback from concerned commenters. People immediately began questioning whether her Caleb was *that* Caleb, and led her down a rabbit hole to discover that she had, in fact, made contact with the one and only West Elm Caleb.

Apparently, many of Caleb’s interactions with Hinge start the same way. He has a tendency to “love bomb,” right at the outset, flooding his would-be dates with heartfelt messages only to ghost them later. On the rare occasion that a match actually leads to an in-person date, it seems Caleb sells himself well. At least one girl, as detailed in @meemshou’s video, had a truly incredible experience with him.

@meemshou notes, in her video, that she was a bit hesitant to reach out to the love-struck girl, who she labeled as “head over heels” based on her video about Caleb. She decided, in the long run, that she would leave it up to the “TikTok gods.” If the other girl saw her video, she could take the warning however she wanted.

The TikTok gods must have been listening. Within no time, a wave of videos flooded the app from women sharing their own experiences with West Elm Caleb. One woman recounted an experience in which she got the typical “love bombing” experience only to be ghosted soon afterward. West Elm Caleb was kind enough to follow this typical dating app interaction with a full-body dick pic, however, so — congrats?

In some cases, West Elm Caleb is fully willing to commit — for a few weeks at least. According to women he’s actually gone on dates with, Caleb is pretty great. The love bombing is a consistent trend, as are the “unique” playlists he likes to send out to dates.

But the interactions all seem to end the same way: he ghosts. Many of the women don’t know what, exactly, went wrong, but they all end up ghosted regardless.

But not user @kateglavan, who actually managed to date Caleb for a few days recently. She was thoroughly enjoying her time with him until people on TikTok started to send her videos about the man, the myth, the legend: West Elm Caleb himself. She quickly realized that her beau and West Elm Caleb were one and the same, particularly after Caleb texted her to complain about the situation unfolding on TikTok.

Even as he was whining, however, more women were reaching out. Kate began getting Instagram messages from women informing her that they’d been in her shoes before. He sends out the same loving messages, shares the same playlists, and takes girls on the same dates, according to one former victim. She even told Kate that she “woke up in his bed the day you went on a date with him.” He apparently has a tendency to claim that he’s deleted Hinge from his phone, only to continue his serial dating on the DL.

The West Elm Caleb saga has since gone mega-viral. The hashtag alone has more than 13.2 million views, and new videos are still being uploaded. More and more women — and plenty of men — are joining in on the drama, whether to share stories of their own West Elm Calebs — a ghoster by any other name would smell as sour — or to simply gush over the delectable TikTok drama.

The story is also inspiring some women to simply be more aware of the dating scene. As one TikToker aptly put it, “he is not only New York City. He is everywhere. West Elm Caleb is a universal concept.”

This isn’t the Colonel’s 11 secret herbs. A new challenge on TikTok has users, seriously or not, soaking and sauteing chicken meat in NyQuil cold medicine, and it has doctors and health professionals concerned. The unusual – to say the least – video first surfaced in 2020 and has been making the rounds again as users post their own reactions to the video and the resultant greenish-blue-hued chicken breasts.

Most users have voiced their disgust at the video, with most viewers expressing downright revulsion at the idea and many outright warning against it. Other users seem to nod and wink along with the video believing that the original footage is intended as a joke. But some healthcare professionals are concerned that the trend could cause harm to those curious or foolhardy enough to try it. Or, as Action Jaxon put it in the above YouTube clip, “Your liver gonna turn into Silly Putty.”

Doctors warn that people should not cook chicken or anything else with over-the-counter cold and flu remedies. Dr. Jeff Foster told The Sun that “The idea that by saturating any food product in a medicine believing that it will provide some novel health benefit or cure is not just stupid, but incredibly dangerous.”.

“When you cook cough medicine like NyQuil, you boil off the water and alcohol in it, leaving the chicken saturated with a super concentrated amount of drugs in the meat,” Physician and assistant clinical professor of family medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, Dr. Aaron Hartman also stated to The Sun. “If you ate one of those cutlets completely cooked, it’d be as if you’re actually consuming a quarter to half a bottle of NyQuil.”

Hartman added that the act of cooking the medicine is risky in itself as it could lead to inhaling the condensed medications in the syrup. “By cooking a medicine with multiple drugs in it on a stovetop, you’ve aerosolized it and are most likely inhaling it,” he said, “Inhaled, these medicines also enter your bloodstream really quickly and are not going past your liver for detoxification. The effects can be quite bad depending on how much you inhale.”

“The safety risk is just so unbelievably high.”

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A new TikTok trend is providing the perfect opportunity for users to show off their very best photos.

Dubbed simply ‘The Photo’ trend, the platform’s latest craze is actually a resurgence of a late 2021 trend. It has returned to popularity in the early weeks of 2022, as users take a moment to share a quick glimpse of their top photo picks.

The trend itself is quite straightforward. It simply involves a user showing a short clip of themselves in their current state, before switching over to a photo reveal. The unveiled pictures can be a favorite selfie, a surprisingly good candid shot, or really any picture that a user is proud of. The trend is prompting a wave of self-confidence-boosting posts, as users share their favorite shots with the world.

The majority of videos participating in the trend are set to a sped-up version of the instrumentals from Gesaffelstein & The Weeknd’s “Lost in the Fire.” The music pairs perfectly with the trend, soundtracking hundreds of quick, brief clips and flawlessly highlighting everyone’s favorite photos.

The ‘The Photo’ trend is a real confidence-booster, as it allows people to show themselves at their best — or at least in the moments they feel most self-assured.

Both men and women are participating in the trend, but the vast majority of videos taking part come from women. Still, these additions from some of the men of TikTok are nothing to shake a stick at.

A number of big names are participating in the trend, with some of TikTok’s biggest stars — like Charli D’Amelio and Lawrence ‘Larray’ Merrit — taking part.

Even Drew Barrymore jumped on the trend. And honestly, her photo is one of the best.

Of course, it took little time for some users to deviate from the initial bounds of the trend. They ignored the prompt and, rather than show themselves at their best, shared funny or embarrassing photos instead.

Honestly, these are some of our favorite additions.