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Everyone on TikTok is freaking out about August 27

If you grew up with email, you probably remember receiving and forwarding chain emails.It’s essentially a pyramid scheme, but for being annoying.You’re probably being exposed to a different variation of a chain email right now through TikTok.TikTok has a tendency to make certain, random things go very viral.These trends are similar to chain emails in that one person posts a specific type of video...and then next thing you know, your entire For You page is filled with other people doing the same thing.That’s pretty much how the date August 27 started circulating around the platform.TikTokers are no strangers to videos predicting the future, so when Samantha Reneé posted a creepy video...about the date it came as no surprise that it quickly went viral.This is Reneé’s most popular video, coming in at over 5 million views.Multiple comments were left by creeped out users who had seen other videos mentioning August 27.While the world waits for August 27 to roll around, let’s just assume this is all part of a modern day chain email