Tiktok’s love message may save them to the national parks

National parks, gay rural music, thirst traps have many common denominators, at least on the Internet.

Hundreds of Tiktok posts combine sexual and comedic voices and stunning views of the nature that fodder overwhelmed on social media. The viral trend with President Donald Trump coincides with Unprecedented financing discounts Targeting federal parks, forests, antiquities, courses and paths.

message #Parktok and #Mountaintok Class G: to preserve and protect public lands. The obscene content is just a cover to attract followers and get this message in front of the largest possible number of people.

At first glance, it represents the Tiktok fan Yellowston and Joshua tree Among the dozens of other national parks, forests and entertainment sites- they seem to compete in a fight. Some commentators speculate that the Federal Park Rangers or Marketing Strategy has gone to block financial support outside financial support.

But informal accounts, which grow in the number daily, are managed by independent content creators without any affiliation with the government. According to the National Park Service Office, Nps has no official presence on TiktokDue to the lack of conditions for service between federal agencies and the platform.

“The viral trends that focus on national parks can enhance the park’s vision and increase attention and awareness,” said the CNET National Park Service in an email. “We appreciate the enthusiasm of our nation’s gardens and the creative ways that individuals share online experiences.”

Millions of social media followers say they are here for that. The promotion of the country’s vast landscapes and its preservation of future generations can be a kind of spiritual height in dark times.

Nature is exciting. Budget discounts is not so

To the vibrant adult content, there is a unified purpose for publishing videos of successive waterfalls, huge trees, attractive deserts and charming wildlife. The researchers have male The national parks are the key to preserving biological diversity and supporting people’s welfare. It seems that everyone, not only natural obsessive, can fail from these public lands – the American National Gardens A. Register number Entertainment visits last year, Almost 332 million.

“If you actually love all these things, you will be associated with this beauty,” said Kim Tanner, a Joshua tree fan “Then you realize that you do not want the prestigious beauty.”

Trump administration 2026 budget plan The reduction of more than a billion dollars of Park Service includes. It also threatens to win 33 billion dollars from national entertainment management programs and grant conservation and conservation. Grants are important to preserve them 433 individual areas of public lands It covers more than 85 million acres, which is run by NPS.

The National Society for the Preservation of Gardens says that budget discounts in the White House are the largest proposed cuts to serve the National Park in its history of 109 years and can be.Cancel to determine at least 350 sites for national parksMany said that Trump puts the foundation Selling public lands And convert entertainment areas to the administration at the state level.

according to Christine BergelFirst Vice President for Government Affairs at the National Assembly for the Preservation of Gardens, NPS has already lost nearly 2500 employees, or nearly 13 % of its employees, while calling it the “brain exit” of environmental experts.

“What is happening now, in an attempt to dismantle the national garden service from the inside out, is more terrifying than anything we have seen before.”

Get the wilderness for the wilderness

Tiktok is controversial, as well as sex. This is exactly the reason why trends like these have political capital, able to attract fans and hatred, and bring everyone to the conversation.

“Polarization on social media reflects our true political polarization,” said Cathediwi, a social media correspondent at CNET.

Creators #Parktok and #mountaintok, some of whom are former Park employees, are all nature lovers who extend the political spectrum. Several accounts publicly condemn management threats against parks and direct viewers to demonstrations or donations, but the direction is not a party or the activist.

“Most of their posts are working at the level of unconscious, prompting viewers to think about their national parks and their experiences,” said Cheteroy. “It is simple, but it is effective.”

In fact, Tiktok’s participation has arisen about public lands before budget discounts to the gardens. The accounts of the first three fans – Jabal Hood, Jabal Rene and Meloston – immediately after the elections last November. Managed by three friends of outdoor lovers, the accounts put the leaflets early, which were a mixture of comic relief and wild awe.

There was not a lot of thirst trap content after that. Jaime Wash, the Creator behind Mount Hood and Mount St. Helen Fans accounts. Then, two creators began to hunt each other, and people loved it.

Fake meat was, but the joint track template became a profitable strategy. By January, the trend began to capture the speed, with more fans’ accounts joining the battle. Over the past few months, the popularity of publications has seen deviant and flows – until somewhat, when all #mountaintok and #parktok have exploded for Risqué content.

The special parts of public lands have become a magic formula, a type of viral equestrian, which creators know how to play. “Social media users are very used for brands that behave on Tiktok,” said Chedriwi.

Bridge

some Critics criticized satirical simulation accountsAccusing the creators of trying to liquidate a legal issue, or claiming that sexually charged content harms the gardens.

But according to the creators, who cooperate regularly in a group chat, it was not the money, and that will not be their intention. Wash told me that if they had at any time they collected the payment of the content, they are planning to donate money to the gardens.

Wash said, after obtaining such a huge follow -up, she felt that her responsibility was to involve people. In April, I directed the Mount Hood Fan followers to follow Hand Portland off the protest.

Wash said: “We are building a society to show that things are not incapable, and this change can happen and we are there for each other.” Besides raising the alarm, relief and lively relief publications add a daily cycle of anxiety and anxiety.

Tanner told me that #Parktok and #mountaintok can help open people’s eyes, which indicates the really fragility of nature. By highlighting the extinction -threatened animals and damage caused by things such as cutting trees, drilling and mining, they can help millions of followers to understand what is really at stake.

The amazing power of social media

Social media works as a cultural measure, as it reveals general feelings in actual time and highlights the issues that resonate. Platforms such as Tiktok also give popular movements, allowing ordinary people to bypass traditional media filters and speak directly to the broad masses.

“We have seen digital work leading to tangible work,” he said. Sheila NgwinAssistant Director of Communications and Participation in the National Society for the Preservation of Gardens. “The more people who see the content of social media, the more people who may speak and the collective influence that it can have,” Ngwin told CNET in an e -mail.

Indeed, it turns out that propaganda for social media enhances the visit of the National Park. A 2024 Research Study I found that positive social media posts that include pictures or videos pay the largest increases in the visit.

“The more people we can enter into these gardens, the better. In this way, they can try it directly, see it, stood in love with it, and then want to protect it,” Tanner said.

The National Assembly urges parks to participate in alerts Call page So that they can raise concerns with representatives of Congress. “We feel that Congress is the best option at the present time to get management to retract these bad suggestions,” said Brengel from NPCA. “Congress needs to pay some of these terrible measures.”

Many Tiktok creators also spoke to them said they are defending ways to hold elected officials accountable.

Wash said: “It is heartbreaking to think that the places I love completely may not be the same again, and I want to do anything to stop it.”

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