- I was around with like the early days of Bebo and Myspace.
- Oh god.
- Oh wow, you are old. Wow.
(upbeat percussive music)
- Hi, I'm Connor.
- Hi, I'm Liana, and today we're gonna teach a dad
how to use TikTok.
- For the first time.
- Hi.
(laughter)
- [Liana] TikTok is just growing.
- [Connor] I think it's literally
the most downloaded app right now.
- [Liana] So how come you haven't downloaded it yet?
- I guess because I'm old.
- What? - What!
- That's no excuse.
- No, I have seen 80 year olds
shaking their stuff on that app.
- Very old men doing very strange things.
- There's 80 year olds on TikTok?
- [Liana] Yeah. - [Connor] Absolutely.
- What are they doing?
- Shaking their stuff.
- [Nyall] What I know is it's a lot of people doing
like, miming to song lyrics.
Would that be right?
- That's more Musical.ly, yeah?
- Yeah.
- That was more Musical.ly.
- So TikTok was previously Musical.ly.
- It's evolving slowly.
- It's definitely slowly evolving.
- People still do that, but it's not
such a big percentage now, is it?
- No.
- So what do you, what is TikTok then?
- [Connor] So TikTok now is literally whatever
you want it to be, I'd say.
So for example, we do pranks and original skits.
Whereas, other people could sing,
they could dance.
It's just a place to show your talents, really.
- Alright, do you wanna show me some of your best TikToks?
- [Connor] Of course.
Let's start off with the nail through finger prank.
So this one got 10.4 million views,
this was the other day actually,
which is kinda crazy.
- Just the other day, casually 10.4 million.
- Just casually, 10.4 the other day,
you know, it's nothing, it really isn't.
(Liana laughs)
- [Liana] Casually hammering the door.
(Connor screams)
(screaming)
(laughter)
- And that got 10.7?
- So that got 10.7, yes, which is kinda crazy.
- You know, I was around with the early days
of Bebo and MySpace.
- Oh wow, you are old.
Wow, that's crazy.
Now c'mon though, Bebo, what is that?
- I guess I wanna be able to prove that I'm a,
you know, cool dad, so I probably should--
- Okay, down with the kids. - Cool dad, dance.
- I should probably like, get down with the kids,
and give it a go, right?
- I agree, I agree.
- What's my birthday?
I mean this is gonna--
- Do you want us to look away?
- This is gonna give it away guys.
Gotta keep scrolling back to the 80s.
- He's going right back, mate, going right back.
Oh.
I'm not saying anything.
You're still young.
- [Nyall] If I wanna get big on TikTok,
how many times a day have I gotta post?
- At least once a day.
- Yeah, once a day, minimum.
- Minimum once a day.
I obviously didn't expect to be as big as I am,
I was just doing it for fun,
but that kind of comes alongside it, so.
- How many followers have you got?
- Right now I have 1.7 million on TikTok.
- 1.7 million followers, and do you think being funny is--
- Absolutely, yeah, showing your personality
in video is definitely key with TikTok.
- Okay, I'm not sure I have much of a personality, so.
Oh god, my username, I didn't even think about that.
- Funky dad, 24.
- Funky is probably the most uncool word you could put,
and once you put it with dad, it's probably the most uncool
username you could ever get.
- Exactly, and that's what we want.
We wanna stand out.
- [Nyall] FunkyDad26 it is.
- Right, now you need a funky dad picture.
- You need a funky dad picture.
- Okay, so what would a funky dad do?
Thumbs up?
- Thumbs up.
A thumbs up is needed, yes, exactly.
- [Liana] Thumbs up.
- [Connor] Very uncool.
- There you go, FunkyDad26, follow me on TikTok.
- So now you need a bio, so people that come to your page
know a little bit more about you.
- [Nyall] I'm a funky dad that likes to get funky?
- Oh, that is perfect.
What funky dad doesn't like to get funky?
Let's make a TikTok.
- Yeah.
- Guys, I've got to be honest.
I'm not sure if the pranking thing is really like,
my funky dad vibe.
I did art at school.
- Did you actually?
- I did art at school, as one of my GCSEs.
- Yeah, there's a big audience for like, DIYs,
aesthetically pleasing things.
- DIYers are massive at the minute on TikTok, yeah.
- So, we could start you off doing something like that.
- Definitely.
- [Nyall] You got one in mind, or?
- Yeah, there's a really cool one actually at the minute,
with the paintbrush thing.
- Oh yeah.
- So like, you put paint on the end of a paintbrush.
It's so simple, get a glass of water,
and then slowmo the paint going into the water,
and it makes like a cool effect.
- All right, let's do this.
(electronic music)
- [Nyall] Does one of you wanna have a go first,
then I'll do it.
- I'll have a go.
- Get involved.
- Okay.
- [Connor] Okay, go for it.
(laughter)
- What a rubbish.
- How to ruin your glass.
- What kind of paint, c'mon what is that?
- It's the wrong paint.
Okay, so the first attempt did not work,
we used oil paints.
We've got some watercolors now,
so we're gonna try this again.
- Hopefully.
- Let's do it.
- Yeah, three, two, one, go.
- Nice, that was so much better.
- [Nyall] That's pretty good.
- That's pretty good.
We'll take that.
Okay, we'll try blue and green.
- Blue and green?
- Yes.
- What does blue and green make?
- Bgreen.
- Alright, so I'm going blue,
I'm gonna go a light blue.
- [Connor] And that's like a swamp green.
- Three, two, one.
- [Connor] Oh, yeah! - [Liana] Nice!
- [Connor] That's cool, that's kind of cool.
I like that.
- Describe, give me some tips.
Give me some tips.
- So you need a catchy caption.
- Always ask a question.
- [Nyall] What color does blue and green make?
- [Liana] Yeah.
- [Connor] Why have you just nailed it?
That's perfect.
- [Liana] Yeah.
- It's bgeen, by the way.
- [Liana] Hashtag funky dad.
- [Connor] Of course.
- [Nyall] Moment in history, my first ever TikTok.
- [Connor] That's your first ever TikTok,
how does that feel?
- [Liana] That's a decent one for a first one.
- [Connor] That was a good one.
- [Nyall] I just hope I go viral.
- Don't forget us when you're famous.
- Yeah, please.
- That's all I'm gonna say.
- Remember where you started,
remember who started you on this app.
- I'll give you a shout-out on TikTok one day.
- Yes, that's what we want, that's all we want.
(upbeat music)