The hottest TikTok trends right now: November 2025
Dive into the latest TikTok trends right now: low-quality guard dogs, embarrassing boyfriends, and a resurfacing ‘90s hit are all covered by Epidemic Sound’s social media expert.
Another month, another absolutely wild time online. Join Epidemic Sound’s community manager, Madie Hooker, as she breaks down five of the latest TikTok trends.
Trend 1: This is who you chose to protect your house?
As a great American poet once kind-of said, your dog contains multitudes. Most pet owners have seen their pooches go through a full range of emotions: happy, sad, angry, confused, playful. Most pet owners also know, deep down, that their best friend is doing absolutely nothing in a combat situation.
Based on this uncomfortable, deeply funny truth, the This is who we chose to protect our house trend was born. Soundtracked by Hans Zimmer’s epic Reflections of Mufasa, TikTok users film their dogs doing their thing. It’s usually the dog in question sleeping, or jumping out of its skin when faced with a turtle or some other tiny animal. We wouldn’t want them any other way, though.
@mxrll_1 Beware of the Bella 🛑 ⚠️ #dogsoftiktok #goldenretriever #goldenretrieverlife #foryou ♬ som original - operacional
Trend 2: Sometimes you just need to read a text from…and move on
Your phone buzzes. Maybe it’s that sweater you’ve waited weeks for, finally back in stock. Perhaps it’s a job offer from the interview you aced. Or it could be a DM from your oldest friend.
But it never is. It’s a text from that person. A person you care for, appreciate, and couldn’t live without…but they have no business texting you the kind of stuff they do. Sometimes, you just have to take their weird ways in your stride, reply, and move on with your day.
Trend 3: Having a boyfriend is embarrassing now
At the end of October, Vogue published Is Having a Boyfriend Embarrassing Now? The article was sympathetic as much as it was savage, summed up pretty brutally in one line: “Even though I am a romantic, I still feel like men will embarrass you even 12 years in, so claiming them feels so lame.”
Audiences are apparently tired of hetrosexual women posting boyfriend-heavy content, and TikTok had a field day with it. Will boyfriends go the way of fidget spinners? Or will they resurface in a few decades’ time, considered retro and cool like vinyl records and low-rise jeans?
@ellainthecityy the winner 🥇 #fyp #wlw ♬ original sound - sofie
Trend 4: It’s wishlist season
For a certain part of the world, this time of year is full of gift-giving and celebration. The fall/Christmas season is often crammed with ideas for presents, which is what TikTok’s doing right now. In any format you can think of — talking heads, carousels, voiceovers — you’ll find wishlists for the upcoming holidays.
Trend 5: What’s going on with What’s Going On?
4 Non Blonds’ What’s Up was a hit in its own right back in the ‘90s. Since then, it’s found a new audience thanks to that He-Man video.
In October 2025, What’s Up reinvented itself again. Blended with Nicki Minaj’s Beez in the Trap, the viral mash-up soundtracked SNL sketches, Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show, and more.
The trend starts with one person lip-syncing to What’s Up, before the camera pans to reveal someone standing behind them. The track then changes, the other person lip-syncing to Minaj’s lines. The trend carried over from October into November, and blessed the internet with a 2025 Kevin Bacon mullet.
@kyrasedgwickofficial What IS going on? 🤷♀️
♬ original sound - Saturday Night Live - SNL
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