10 Hobbies That Are All Over Gen Z’s TikTok Feed This Month
TikTok trends often move too fast to track, but a closer look at Gen Z’s current hobbies reveals more than passing fads. These activities reflect how this generation communicates, copes, and creates meaning. Here’s what keeps flooding Gen Z’s feeds this month and why it matters.
Gaming Without Logging Off From Yourself
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Gaming videos make up a major portion of Gen Z content on TikTok. Clips showing avatar customization, curated builds in open-world games, and commentary on lore allow creators to show personal taste and humor while building community around specific titles.
BookTok’s Emotional Rollercoaster Continues
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#BookTok remains a leading subculture among Gen Z users, especially among women ages 16 to 24. In fact, TikTok fans helped Colleen Hoover move an insane 14.3 million books in 2022, new data shows. Content ranges from live reactions to storylines to visual bookshelf tours, influencing bestseller lists and reviving interest in backlist titles.
Sketching Gets Screen Time
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TikTok has helped expand visibility for amateur and semi-professional artists. Short-form content showing unfinished sketches, time-lapses, or process explanations has proven more popular than polished final pieces.
The Kitchen Becomes the Main Character
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TikTok’s kitchen clips don’t try to impress anyone. They show people cooking the food they actually eat, not what belongs in a cookbook. Someone forgets an ingredient, burns a corner, laughs, and eats it anyway. That honesty is what draws viewers in. It’s not about recipes or technique. It’s about ordinary meals carrying a bit of comfort.
Lego Kits and DIY Desks, Posted Step-by-Step
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Gen Z users often document room transformations or tech upgrades to combine hobbyist interest in design with budget-conscious builds. Popular formats include IKEA hacks, cable management guides, or LED light installations. These projects are usually shown in progress videos, with “before and after” edits performing especially well in engagement metrics.
Fitness Videos With Fewer Filters
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Workout content used to be aspirational, but now it’s about being real. TikTokers film unflattering angles, talk about skipping reps, or joke about taking five breaks during a “quick” HIIT. This shift aligns with broader trends toward authenticity in social media usage among younger users.
Anime Rewatches and Cartoon Nostalgia Hits
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Anime and older animated shows continue to trend, with edits from series like One Piece, Attack on Titan, and Avatar: The Last Airbender gaining traction. TikTok users share emotional reactions, explain plotlines, or remix audio clips. These nostalgic or serialized formats provide easy material for short-form storytelling.
Writing Gets the Soft-Spoken Treatment
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TikTok has enabled new forms of public journaling and micro-poetry. These posts typically feature voiceovers, onscreen text, or page flips of handwritten notes. The content often revolves around relationships or self-reflection, with users using TikTok’s built-in tools to create emotionally driven but minimalistic content.
Music That Isn’t Polished—But Personal
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Amateur music creation on TikTok includes acoustic demos, song loops, and mashups. Rather than full tracks, creators share fragments recorded at home or in casual settings. Gen Z’s preference for authenticity in sound aligns with this trend, as does the use of royalty-free samples or lo-fi production.
Mechanical Keyboard Customization
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Mechanical keyboard building has emerged as a niche but persistent hobby among Gen Z. TikTok content includes unboxing switches, customizing keycaps, or adjusting sound profiles. The ASMR appeal of keystroke sounds and the visual satisfaction of personalized setups contribute to this trend’s success, especially under #keyboardtok.