Gen Z Discovers Soup, and Other Wild TikTok Trends

In this episode of Nina’s What’s Trending, we break down two of the most head-scratching TikTok trends making waves right now—and they both involve things you already do.

First up: texting your friends "thank you" after hanging out. It’s going viral as a trend, but the team debates whether it’s sweet, awkward, or downright needy. Is this the key to lasting friendships… or a sign we’ve forgotten how to be normal?

Then, Gen Z has officially discovered… soup. Yes, the newest cooking trend is being called “water-based cooking,” and it's exactly what it sounds like: boiling, steaming, poaching, and blanching—repackaged as if it’s never been done before. Is this just harmless fun, or peak TikTok absurdity?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
What's trending?

Speaker 3 (00:09):
I'm about to tell you I just got some sugar
in my throat. What I have? These new candies are
basically like sour patch kids, and I just got a
little bit stuck in my throat.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
H Okay, we're gonna.

Speaker 4 (00:21):
So I'm about to tell you direct the most important
meal of to day.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Kids, don't forget to take your sugar. But they're called
smart Sweets. They're three grams of sugar, girl, and they're
like that.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
Smart on the packaging.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
It's it's basically healthy, but it doesn't have any dye
in it because you know me, I can't do dye.
You know, we'll be on Instagram like bye bye bye Instagram.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Just they're like, hey, we need to see what Nina's
up to. Let's send her some ads and see what
she's into.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Okay, this is cute and they tasteless anyway, and.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
They almost killed you.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Just a little dry. Okay, there's two TikTok trends that
are surprisingly shocked, but shocking for not the reason you're thinking.
The first one is the trend is to send thank
you text to your friends after you enjoy their company.
This has actually gone viral where people are posting the
tiktoks that they send to their friends or the text.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Message thank you for hanging out, thank you for.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Your time, you made me feel really good, or I
really enjoy your energy, or just things that you should
be saying, in my humble opinion, to.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
Your friends with your my friend, I don't need to
thank you for hanging out.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
We just love hanging out.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
I mean I usually like if I if I do
hang out with a friend, usually after I'm like, man,
it was great to see you. Yeah yeah Is that
kind of the same thing as think so yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yeah, if you text them that, I mean, I think
it's great. Sometimes you're still kind of riding that high
after you spend some time with your friends and then
you send a little text and you're just like, love you,
thank you, love you. Different than thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
Thank you feels weird to me.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Why thank you for being my friend? Thank you for
your sharing your energy with me?

Speaker 4 (01:52):
Like, because it sounds like you don't actually want to
hang out with me, but you're thanking me because like,
thank you for hanging out with me, kind of like
I didn't really want to, but thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
But you don't have to. It's always a choice.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
If I got a text like that, I'd be like,
I'm not hanging out with them again. Geez, they need
friends back.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
You guys are whacked, Like I want to hate on this,
But then I realized I don't really have any friends,
and that might be why I should just start thinking people.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, maybe that's why it would go a long way.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
I don't know. I just think it's always nice to
practice gratitude for the sweet people in your life.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
It's kind of weird that it's a trend.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
You know, I could schedule that part that in texting
people after you see them, like schedule it.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
That's schedule.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah, Like in the morning, you're like, I'm gonna hang
out with Bobby at noon.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
I'm going to schedule this for one and if you
are still there if you bail, though, you should get
to schedule it, like if their true friend, they'll be there.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
The scheduled text are pretty awesome. I had a friend's
schedule a text to wish me luck on my first
day of work because we do mornings and it's so early.
She wasn't going to be awake, but she wanted to
make sure that I got a nice text saying have
a greasers day, like I believe in you and blah
blah blah, like that's nice. I don't think it should
be a trend. I just think it should be practiced.
But okay, if TikTok said to do it, then maybe

(03:04):
more people will do it.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Not a bad thing.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Well, I'm gonna start scheduling myself text to myself to
thank me for hanging out with me.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Oh that's sweet. Honestly, it's not a bad idea. Self talk, Jubile.
You always talk about how important it is grow up.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
And I'm going I'm going to send and picks back.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yo.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Okay, it's going to be okay in the bedroom if.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
You If you guys like that trend, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
I have to make it creepy though.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Okay, here's the next trend that you guys will love.
It's called water based cooking, otherwise known as boiling or steaming.
The reactions, though, is so priceless. Gen Z discovers soup.
This is just everyday food. Especially in Asian cultures. TikTok
has a term for the most basic things. This one goes.

(03:56):
I remember my first.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
That's a true and making soup.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Just boiling things, boiling anything. Hi, guys, if you take
pasta and chicken and put it in the same water,
you can just heat up the water.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
You don't even have to have anybody in there. It's
super healthy.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
I call it water stuff, water based cooking. It is.
It is supposed to be healthy. But wait, can you cook?

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Not enough people know about water based cooking. I'm gonna
tell you how to do it in three seconds. Like
everybody knows. They just call it boiling.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
It's boiling, blanching, steaming, or poaching anything that you do
using water, which has been around for very long.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
I mean technically it's like bunching all those together and
just calling it one thing. So like, I don't fully
like I'm against it.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
Biting it's dumb. That's trund gen Z discovered soup.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
What they created it. You guys are so dumb. It's
water based cooking.

Speaker 4 (04:55):
Whether rather than saying boiling or poaching, it's water Like,
it's all water.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
I cook for my friends and then I'm gonna text
them thank you after what.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
I'm not helping. Yeah, you're like, but it is different.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
It's not different.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
It's just combining all of them into one.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
Victoria. You don't have to defend this. This is not
necessarily all gen Z. You could be the person that
understands that this is funny. It is funny, it's dumb.

Speaker 4 (05:17):
But it's like just like grouping all of it. Like,
it's not just like boiling or not just poaching or whatever.
It's like combining all those things into one and calling
it water.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
But I'm not helping. Actually, again, gen Z discovered soup.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
Guys, we need to work on ourselves.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Okay, that's what's trending.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
That's funny.