“Talahons” boxes on TikTok – DW – 23.08.2024

That one or another discovery is gefährlich, which otherwise zum Lachen, was zur Zeit auf TikTok abgeht: Kurze Videos said grim three-eyed young men, zumeist arabischer Herkunft. With unloading actions the stamp can be correct. The Boxer pose is a deception, Die Cappy is not fehlen, first straight not the Bauchtasche. “Underdogs perceive themselves as cool Underdogs,” says Susanne Schröter, professor of ethnology at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, gegenüber der DW, “that’s why they are great.”

But it is useful for the TikTok video as well as for self-consciousness. Who Mahmoud has been on TikTok as “Arab with the Seitenscheitel” has appeared. The Westdeutschen Rundfunk (WDR) wrote about the 19th edition of the Tahalon-Performance: “Louis Vuitton, he knits machen on the Straße, Parfum.” Use the Balenciaga Klamotten and the natural obligatory Bauchtasche.

Outfit and movements should stimulate

“Komm mal her” – it is the own translation of the word “Talahon”, the Arabic beginning “Ta’al La’hon” comes from. The stone for the Talahons war was Hassan from Hagen in Wasser, a Kurdish-Syrian rapper Anfang 20, who lives his years in Germany and next to the family job. In 2022 the song “TA3AL LAHON” was released. Then a text sailed viral: “Tala’ hon, ich geb dir ein Stich, ich bin der Patron.”

On TikTok, it is the case that all the young people wander around under the hashtag “#talahon” in the category, the trend that has lasted a long time on the video platform. And in the city districts, where a Bahnhof operates, the Talahons are kept in Straßenbild for a long time. “Ein Talahon muss respektvoll sein”, as Rapper Hassan from the WDR, was in the German Kontrast zu seinem Lied über Kriminalität en Gewalt steht. Eine Zeile darin lautet: “Deine Jungs sees, who I am in this Messer steche.” Hassan nennt diese Sprache in schlechtem Deutsch an “Kunstform”, die vom Leben “on der Straße” erzähle.

Was aber treibt de Talahons een? “It is a self-consciousness,” said the Schweizer psychologist and psychotherapist Lothar Janssen, who had to deal with youthful work and debt. “If one of the people is like that, then you are the King, then you have fame. Then it will be produced.” Wer Fame, sprich: Aufmerksamkeit hat, kommt unter Gleichgesinnten in der Peergroup gut an. “These social media are not yet a brand safe,” says Janssen.

Sexism and rassismus in Talahon videos

Tatsächlich flutes fell Talahons with my Kurzvideos in the TikTok channel. Most of the messages are: Outfit and Pose müssen – wie bij TikTok üblich – schon nach Sekunden begeistern, damn user started and the video was added more. Vorzugsweise untermalen Klänge der Berliner Hip-Hop-Formation “KIZ” with the Rapper Tarek, Maxim and Nico das Geschehen.

Don’t leave the Talahon in the furthest position. Many people are sexual and sexist. The “Bild” -Zeitung has spread a “wider TikTok trend”. Under the WDR observation, one of the devices of young men is a woman’s picture reproduced: “One (use) you for cooking, one for putting”. The right-wing populist Party Alternative for Germany (AfD) has identified the Talahons as enemy pictures and helped the Ausweisung younger Arab men.

Psychologist Janssen sees the main group for the Talahons’ Succession in a growing uncertainty in identity, conflicting roles and beliefs. “Many people,” says: “Looking for clarity and familiarity.” Talahon videos see nothing but “diverted repairs in a world that is still orienting itself.” These populists profit from this phenomenon and Janssen is the “AfD reflex”.

The rap before the war became more important

Violence and sexism are a major theme of new music trends with metal rap, gangster rap or jihadist rap, ethnologist Susanne Schröter. Series of titles with extreme vulgarizations are banned or indexed. I think the Talahons are in a theme. “But before that was very much more important.” He has a man with rap careers who earn money and earn money. “The reason is probably that the Talahons are actually intellectually and poetically very bad. You can’t compare that with rap.” But little in their socially critical content.

But especially among the migrant youth, the young Talahons do not fare well, who studied the Frankfurter Ethnologin: “They are not small videos, posts and also the stories of migrants, who say: ‘Was it the case for a quatsch, we were happy without it? Diesen Hohlrollern in eine Ecke gestellt’!” In the Migrantenszene the Talahons ranged “at all runterstensten Ende”, says Schröter. On TikTok you can watch casual videos that you would like to see.

Is Talahon a Jugendkultur? “Yes,” said Psychologist Janssen, is skeptical about the long-term trend: “It will become the world’s own affair, we will be in the Blackbox TikTok. Messages can jetzt anschlussfähig the Trend.” Discover the psychological function of Talahon: “If you are creatively creative with the handy tools, you will be happy with your daily life.” Days ago, Susanne Schröter concreted the political Relevance of the Talahons, a Siege for the Versagen von Migrationspolitik: “The young people were completely lost,” says the Ethnologin, “and no one said that, it was for a Quatsch sie da eigentlich machen.”

Also, the Wirtschaft setzt inzwischen of the Talahon-Effekt: A German Retailer with a wide variety of Fleischtheke and Backwerk “Talahon”-Waren an: Süßigkeiten, Instant Nudeln – and Energy-Drinks, and a Lebensmittelhändler öffentlichte kürzlich a TikTok-Video, for Nach wuchs zu werben: “Was it, ihr Talahons. Ihr sucht eine Ausbildung?” Das Filmchen had over 170,000 clicks in its free time.

A welcher understand that sogar good chances, am 19. October zum “Jugendwort des Jahres” would be known? Genau: der “Talahon”.