What’s the adult swim TikTok trend? Nostalgic commercial bumps challenge explained

THE Adult Swim inclination has not disappeared from our screens for a fewer years connected TikTok due to the fact that users emotion the nostalgia.

It has truly encouraged immoderate creativity, with users producing videos that person attracted millions of likes and views - here's the inclination explained.

What is Adult swim?

AS stands for Adult Swim, which is the sanction fixed to American transmission Cartoon Network's overnight programming block.

It is known for airing much big animated oregon live-action shows with darker themes.

To date, it has been the location of Black Jesus and Adventuretime, arsenic good as The Boondocks, Black Dynamite and Rick and Morty.

The transmission uses 'bumps', which are little modulation clips betwixt adverts and TV shows.

Much similar the mode that Channel 4 successful the UK usage bumps featuring a ample '4' logo, Adult Swim uses the logo [as] successful its sequences.

Often, the letters are hidden and yet revealed astatine the extremity of the clip.

The quirky and indie benignant of Adult Swim's bumps has struck a chord with TikTok users.

What does AS mean connected Tik Tok?

The Adult Swim inclination has seen users effort to recreate and parody the Adult Swim 'bumps'.

Users incorporated the letters [AS] into the abbreviated video successful the astir originative ways they can.

One video includes a antheral sweeping popcorn successful an bare cinema, lone for the popcorn to beryllium shown arranged into the letters.

Another sees a lad astatine his machine spill a tin of cashew nuts, which 'spill' to make [AS] retired of the cashews.

What is the opus utilized successful the Adult Swim trend?

The opus is named Running Away and is the enactment of TikTok shaper Vano 3000. 

The bushed is sampled from BADBADNOTGOOD’s Time Moves Slow feat Sam Herring.

The opus present has astir 200,000 uses connected the app.

Vano started euphony retired of his motortruck successful Florida and has since produced assorted beats connected TikTok.

After his way went viral, Vano 3000 spoke to Insider.

He said he's a instrumentality of the trend: "I ticker Adult Swim each azygous night, like, I grew up connected Adult Swim,

"I conscionable thought it was truthful genius. I'm like, I emotion Adult Swim, you know? And past the cartoon enactment that they've got and each that, I conscionable emotion their aesthetic."