BRIT TOK

From home counties parents to awkz reply guys, Brit Tok is the place to chart every corner of UK culture in 2023. We track down the kings, queens and drags resurrecting the persona-mashing comedy of bygone British surrealism

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Henry Rowley @rowleyy Did Henry Rowley set out to become a TikTok sensation? Sort of. “My girlfriend at the time was showing me this girl from TikTok and she was like, This girl’s just bought a flat from TikTok money,” he recalls. “I downloaded [it] immediately.” He initially tried his hand at travel vlogging - for the “free holidays” - but, after that bombed, he discovered the route to social-media stardom was simply being himself. Or being other people, rather. “I was on holiday with some mates, and I was doing that posh character, Minty, with the husky voice. One of my mates specifically, he was just dying. I got back and I was like, ‘Wait, do you reckon I could make a TikTok out of this?’” Minty spawned a…

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Dazed & Confused (Digital) - 1 Issue, Summer 2023

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