TikTok, also known as Douyin in China, is a ByteDance-owned (Chinese company) social media platform that hosts a short form of videos by its users. There are several videos from diverse genres such as dance, art, entertainment, comedy, stunts, and lip-syncing acts. And the users have liked them a lot.
There are several most liked videos on TikTok that go viral and help the video creators earn themselves a name and fame. Many popular creators have also got opportunities through this platform in the entertainment industry too! Isn’t that cool? However, it is also criticized for addiction, especially for kids.
TikTok, with more than one billion users, has always been the center of the news since its launch on September 2017. This is either because of its growing popularity or the controversies regarding the ban of TikTok in a few countries.
Despite these hurdles, TikTok has emerged as popular as Zoom, Peacock (TV), and other such apps. It surpassed 2 billion mobile downloads worldwide in October 2020. In fact, TikTok became the most popular website in 2021, according to Cloudflare. So, in this article, we will rank the top ten most liked videos on TikTok.
10. British Promise Cats: Cat pawing at camera
People often like to pet different varieties of pets like dogs, parrots, horses, rabbits, hens, cows, and even reptiles, including snakes, lizards, and crocodiles. But cats are one of a kind. They are pets who love to be treated like gods. They are peaceful animals who live in their own world, even when surrounded by humans.
With the onset of social media, people love to record their animals and share those moments with their audience, and TikTok is one of those platforms. And hence, among the most liked videos on TikTok, this cat finds a place. This video was posted by the user @britishpromise.cats on 17 June 2020 and has 37.2 likes on TikTok. In this video, the cat scratches continuously to reach a camera under a pot or something which is recording it. This account has around 3.2 followers on TikTok.
9. Khabane Lame: Peeling a banana
Khabane Lame or simply Khaby is the most-followed TikToker with over 142 million followers (as of July 2022). His TikTok videos contain silent mocks of overly complicated life hack videos. And hence, among the list of top ten most liked videos on TikTok, one of his videos is no surprise.
This particular video of Khabane gained 37.9 likes on TikTok, which mocks a banana peeling life hack. It was posted on 13 April 2021. The life hack person uses a sharp knife to cut down the peels, while Khabane peels it like any other normal man and ends the video with his open hand gesture showing the banana.
8. Billie Eilish: “Time Warp Scan” filter
No wonder anything that a celebrity does will shake up the algorithms of their official social media handles. And, boom, here is Billie Eilish with her TikTok video that stands eighth on the list of most liked videos on TikTok.
The ‘Bad Guy’ famed American singer and songwriter Billie Eilish put up her first video on TikTok on 11 November 2020, which hit 40.2 million likes. In this video, the singer seems to enjoy this Time Warp Scan filter. The number of likes obviously evident in how much her fans enjoyed it too.
The singer made her account on TikTok and gave it a unique username as @coochiedestroyer5. She likes to post challenges and anything she wants her fans to see. She has 35.8 million followers on her TikTok account.
7. Adrian Chateau Wiles: Person barking at the dog
In the world of pets, the first animal that comes to our mind is a dog. And their entertainment level comes next to their loyalty. And here is a video posted by @adrianchateauon 10 November 2021 in the most liked videos on the TikTok list. This video has 40.4 million likes.
In the video, a girl does a “Bark at your dog” challenge with her dog named Keiko. However, the most adorable and amusing part of the video is the dog’s reaction, which is like he’s saying, “How could you do that? How dare you?”
Adrian Chateau Wiles often posts videos with her dog and has about a million followers on her TikTok account.
6. MONA’s original “Suave – El Alfa”
TikTok has given a useful platform to many raw talents around the globe. And one such talent is the 27-year-old Philippines girl, Mona Gonzales under the TikTok username @mngnzls turned this opportunity into her viral video in which she sang the song “Suave”. This video gained around 41.2million likes.
In the video posted on 4 March 2022, she is singing the song “Suave” by El Alfa in her own original voice, which impressed her viewers. Mona is a celebrity TikTok star known for her lip-sync acts, duets, and challenging trends on social media. She is known for her unique use of surroundings. Mona Gonzales has 13 million followers on her TikTok account.
5. ToTouchAnEmu: “STAY” by The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber
Ranking fifth in the list of most liked videos on TikTok is a lip-sync plus dance video by a user @totouchanemu, aka David Allen. In this video posted on 28 July 2021, he dances while swinging his hips to Justin Beiber’s “STAY” song with headphones on. And there is a drone too, that flies around him. David has around 6 million followers on his TikTok account, and this particular video of him has 44.6 million likes.
Below is a video showing his video.
The video seems weird but cute at the same time. However, even David was surprised by the number of likes his video received.
4. Nick Luciano: “SugarCrash!” by ElyOtto
Nick Luciano is a popular TikTok video creator with the username @thenickluciano. This twenty-five-year creator posts his country life on his account. He has around six million followers. And one of his videos titled “SugarCrash” went viral when it hit 49.1 million likes.
In this video posted on 23 February 2021, Nick Luciano does the lip-syncing to ElyOtto’s viral song “SugarCrash!” with the natural scenes in the background. The way he does the lip-synching is quite amusing. Nick Luciano has around six million followers on his TikTok account.
3. Franek Bielak: “Deep End Freestyle” by Sleepy Hallow featuring Fousheé
Franek Bielak is an artist whose pencil drawings under the username @fredziownik_art are more real than the actual objects he draws. And one of those drawings got viral and gained 50.4 million likes on TikTok. This particular video was posted on December 28th, 2020 inspired by another simple yet viral video of a girl. It uses the song “Deep End Freestyle” by Sleepy Hallow featuring Fousheé.
This Poland-based 16-year-old artist makes hyper-realistic drawings on Instagram and TikTok. He has 11.1 million followers on TikTok.
2. Jamie Big Sorrel Horse: “Say It Right” by Nelly Furtado
Jamie Big Sorrel Horse or as he is known by his username @jamie32bsh joined TikTok on April 17th, 2020. His very first video was his dance to the “Blinding lights” song by The Weeknd. It earned him around 10.3 million likes. And this was just the beginning.
Jamie Big Sorrel Horse posted a video on January 28th, 2022, in which he danced to the song “Say it Right” by Nelly Furtado. And this earned Jamie much-needed attention as the likes on this video were around 51.5 million. In the video, Jamie dances to the song while recording himself in the bathroom mirror. His moves were quite cute and innocent, and this is something that attracted the audience to hit like buttons.
1. Bella Poarch: Lip syncing
And finally, we have reached number one in the list of most liked videos on TikTok. This video belongs to a Filipino-American singer and social media influencer, Bella Poarch, under her username @bellapoarch. In the video, she is lip-Synching to the song “M to the B” by Millie B along with making facial expressions in synchronicity to the beats. This particular video was posted on August 17, 2020, and that gained her a whopping 58.8 million likes.
Bella Poarch has 91.2 million followers on TikTok, the third highest only behind Khaby Lame and Charli D’Amelio. However, she is the most followed TikTok contributor in the Philippines. Bella makes lip-sync videos and makes entertaining faces according to those songs. She also launched her debut single “Build a Bitch” in May 2021, which received positive reviews from music critics, who praised its sound. Bella recently signed a music record deal with Warner Records in 2021.
So these were the top ten most liked TikTok videos in this article. Which one was the most liked according to you?
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