Teens are sharing their “icks” on TikTok, but the ick was not born on TikTok, nor is it something only teens can experience. In fact, it was first coined on the U.K.’s LoveIsland
Photo: master1305/Getty Images/iStockphoto Have you ever been head over heels smitten with someone and then they do something, or you notice something, and it simply makes your skin crawl? That “something” can really be anything: being kissed by a pair of extremely chapped lips, seeing their face from a strange and disturbing angle, or watching them swear at their mom.
Here’s what we know about the ick: Where it comes from, why we experience it, and whether or not it’s telling us something that we should pay attention to. Humorous examples of the ick can also be found across TikTok. “I ghosted a guy once because I saw his butt crack when he got out of the car,” wrote user @breoniguess. “Fortnite flossing,” commented another. “When he’s at a dance and everyone’s dancing in like a huddle and he’s on the outside trying to get involved,” wrote a third.
“When you’ve seen a boy, and got the ick, it doesn’t go,” she said. “It’s caught you, and it’s taken over your body. It’s just ick. I can’t shake it off.” She added that the feeling might arise when we find “our unconscious mind reacting to some fundamental incompatibilities between us and the person to whom we were so recently attracted … Because of the initial rush of attraction, we’ve chosen to overlook these fundamental incompatibilities and to pursue a relationship with them. However, when there are serious incompatibilities, problems will emerge at some point.
On the other hand, icks seem like a good and harmless way for teens, especially, to feel less overwhelmed by their crushes. Of course, icks can be experienced by any gender, but the fact of the matter is that teenage boys rarely are anything less than totally disgusting, and girls are still conditioned to overlook or even treasure their most loathsome qualities.
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