TikTok’s hear me out cake trend explained

TIKTOK is home to a new viral trend known as the “Hear me out” challenge.

The new TikTok challenge has got many wondering what it is and how they can get involved.

Why, Hear me out?

TikTok’s “hear me out” cake trend is a popular video that users are recreating.

Sometimes referred to as the “smash cake challenge”, “hear me out” involves participants deciding who they would smash or pass on from a list of celebrities.

The challenge is an opportunity for players to confess their wildest secret celebrity crush to the world, no matter how bizarre or nonsensical it might seem.

Instead of candles, people will pin cut out images of celebrity faces on a cake to symbolise their crush as a birthday wish of some kind.

The hear me out challenge is a fun adult game to play on your birthday.

And many TikTok creators use the challenge as a way to improve engagement with their followers, most of which can’t help but respond in agreement, and at times repulsion to the creators crush confessions.

Popular faces

Participants of the online challenge have been name dropping many different celebrities.

Some names have raised some eyebrows in the comment section.

While other names appear more popular, with their faces popping up time and time again on people’s smash cakes.

Popular celebrity crush faces that have been appearing often on cakes throughout this challenge are, Sir David Attenborough, Lord Alan Sugar, WWE wrestler Shawn Michaels and Jake Sully’s character in the film Avatar.

No limits

Nothing and no-one is off-limits with this challenge.

Since players have even declared their secret childhood crush for cartoon characters in this viral game.

Popular cartoon crushes that people often name in the challenge are, Mufasa from The Lion King, Homer from The Simpsons, Garfield the cat and even the rookie Lightning McQueen from the Pixar Cars film is a popular mention.

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Other TikTok challenges that have gone viral are, the “Just Give Me My Money” trend.

This is a prank where participants say the phrase “just give me my money” in a funny voice and then cheer and applaud, except for one person, who is left out intentionally.

Then there’s the “Who want smoke” challenge that led to school officials to issue warnings over due to the claims that the challenge promoted gun violence.

The hear me out challenge is innocent fun, however some TikTok challenges have been called out for causing potential harm to participating children.