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9 January 2019updated 21 Sep 2021 6:29am

TikTok: The unlikely meme-generator you’re about to see everywhere

A seemingly obscure app is about to become a social media household name. 

By Sarah Manavis

If you went to an American Walmart sometime in the last three months, you may have heard a teen voice shout “hit or miss” in the middle of the store. Most of the time, this would be met with silence, customers looking around for who said it, and then everyone going on their merry way. But if you were lucky, you would have heard the response “I guess they never miss, huh?” shouted back. If you were REALLY lucky, you would have heard kissing noises, shouts about boyfriends, and the running footsteps of the callers and responders trying to find each other.  

Confused? If your answer is yes, you are increasingly alone.

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