TikTok users are planning a takeover of YouTube Shorts on March 25 in a battle of the apps, hoping to flood their rival with ‘brain-rot’ content.
It’s no secret that YouTube is making a big effort to push its short-form videos on users, even offering a specific tab within the app to scroll through Shorts, similar to TikTok’s For You Page.
With TikTok facing a legal battle in the United States, YouTube has become more popular than ever as a possible alternative to creators hoping to branch out in the event the app gets banned — but TikTokers aren’t convinced that Shorts lives up to the competition.
In fact, TikTok users are taking direct aim at YouTube Shorts in a newly-planned effort to combat what they believe are numerous bots and AI spam in the app’s comment sections.
TikTokers want to take over YouTube Shorts on March 25
As told by TikToker ‘privden2,’ YouTube Shorts is “filled with horrible videos and the dead internet theory kids,” as well as “dead memes from months ago.”
“We could change that,” he suggested. “We could turn YouTube Shorts into a genuinely good platform. The first order of business is making YouTube Shorts silly again. We just absolutely need to flood YouTube Shorts with current brainrot, and then eventually, everyone will catch on.”
TikTokers seem more than excited to start a ‘battle of the apps’, especially given the internet’s recent complaints about the ‘meme drought’ of March 2025, saying no new memes have really taken off on social media lately.
The ‘takeover’ has been scheduled for March 25, 2025 — and netizens are already planning for the chaos of the forthcoming ‘TikTok Empire.’
Hundreds of memes have already spawned to prepare for the YouTube Shorts ‘colonization,’ but critics on YouTube aren’t big fans of the incoming meme onslaught.
“TikTok acting as if 50% of the content in there isn’t AI already,” one wrote.
“Saying this like YouTube shorts isn’t already entirely stolen TikTok content,” another argued.
“This is no longer unemployment, this is unemployable,” another joked.
This isn’t the first time TikTokers have banded together for a single cause; in May 2023, users on the app attempted to make YouTube star MrBeast the most-followed creator on the app. While they ultimately failed, he now sits at 3rd place in the rankings.
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