TikTok High / Venice High School Stairs

About

TikTok High or the Venice High School Stairs refers to multiple viral TikTok videos taken at Florida's Venice High School in front of a specific staircase. The stairs became well-known on TikTok after they continued to appear in viral videos on users' For You pages in November 2021, earning the school the nickname of "TikTok High."

Origin

A staircase at Venice High School in Florida is a prominent setting for TikTok videos, particularly dance videos, by the school's students. Videos of students dancing in front of the stairs can be found throughout 2021 (examples before November 2021 shown below). The dance performed is usually by TikToker^[1] @jae.moves.

In early November 2021 TikTokers began to notice numerous videos taken at the stairs appear on their For You pages as students started going viral dancing there. For example, on November 17th, TikToker @dey.platt posted a video dancing in front of the stairs, gaining over 3.9 million views in a week (shown below). The top comment reads, "why does everyone in this school know how to dance," gaining over 75,000 likes. Another top comment reads, "I done seen the same staircase so many times 💀 But different people" gaining over 53,000 likes.

Spread

Venice High colloquially gained the nickname "TikTok High" as videos doing the dance continued to go viral. The hashtags "#venicehigh," "#venicestairs" and "#venicehighschoolstairs" became notably popular. These videos also inspired reaction videos about TikTok High. On November 20th, TikToker @julian.forbes posted a video of students running down the stairs captioned "POV: everyone is running to the Venice stairs so they get famous," gaining over 1.5 million views in four days (shown below).

On November 21st, TikToker @charleigh.morriss posted a video claiming to have traveled halfway across the world just to see the stairs, gaining over 889,000 views in three days (shown below). On November 23rd, Dexerto^[2] published a story on the stairs. On the same day, Insider^[3] published a piece on the stairs.

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