“I can’t interfere, this is a canon event.” It’s very likely that you’ve read or heard this phrase on TikTok after videos went viral in which users explain situations—often embarrassing or that can end badly—detailing that there’s nothing they can do because it’s canonical event. And if you’re reading this, you probably don’t know what that means. The word has meaning and there is a reason why these tiktoks are becoming so popular on the platform.
The canonical event is not really a term born on TikTok, although, again, it has become very popular on the social network. In fact, it’s a reference widely used in the comics and has been used in various TV series and movies lately. The latest and the reason this went viral on TikTokthis is a movie Spider-Man: Crossing the Multiverse.
In it they refer to “canonical” events as situations – good or bad – that have happened or are about to happen and what not to do and what not to do to avoid it. On the one hand, because canonical events determine the development and future of the character. IN Spider-Man: Crossing the MultiverseFor example, a superhero goes through various difficult situations in his life that lead him to become spider man. If he or someone had intervened, he wouldn’t have become a superhero.
For another because Interfering with a canonical event could endanger the entire universe. Back in Spider-Man: Crossing the Multiverse Various situations arise in which Peter Parker must choose whether to avoid the event that is about to happen, or instead prevent it by changing fate.
Why did canonical events on TikTok go viral?
So on TikTok, when someone explains a situation involving a family member or friend and states they can’t interfere because it’s a canon event, This means that this person must go through this as part of their personal development..
The same is true when someone explains the often painful situation they had to go through to become who they are today.
Most TikTok videos related to canonical events, yes, are created with a dose of humor or with situations that constantly happen day in and day outand that’s the reason they went viral.
Users do not stop uploading videos with situations. For example, someone who is going through a relationship that many other people went through and didn’t end well is actually going through a canonical event and none of their friends or family can intervene to learn from their situation in the future.
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