This new stream in the algorithm, with its dazzlingly beautiful creators declaring “Wear whatever the fuck you want”, “I hate all men”, and, “Good morning bimbos, thembos, himbos, bimboys and any bo you wanna be”, was something else entirely.Ĭhrissy Chlapecka was one of the earliest pioneers of bimboism on TikTok. Then, as the app’s famed algorithm picked up on small nuances in my interest, gaged predominately by watch time, my feed gradually moved to “hot girl Tok”, then jumped to “bisexual Tok”, before it slid over to “edu-Tok”, which brought me to “leftist Tok”, and then I somehow ended up back at what I assumed was simply “hot girl Tok” all over again.īut that wasn’t it.
Clearly, no app filled the void left by our lost social interaction quite like TikTok, with its endless stream of faces, funnies, memes and discourse.įor those new to the app at the time, the way you jumped through the algorithm’s hoops, landing on different – often surprisingly niche – subcultures, was a source of fascination.Īs with all newbies, I started on general TikTok: dance routines, funny home videos, viral skits and pet videos. In 2020, as the pandemic ramped up, those of us in lockdown turned to social media to squander the endless hours of isolation we’d found ourselves facing. It’s been rising to prominence over the past two years and, for regular users of the app, is basically vintage ideology – certified TikTok canon. There is, actually, careful thought behind bimbology, and it could be a way to reach true liberation. The modern-day bimbo is a fresh approach to intersectional feminism. But what is a bimbo? And what does bimbofication entail? And isn’t ‘bimbo’… like… a slur?
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