A time traveler who is alone in the world is currently creating waves of interest on TikTok. The platform was already home to many interesting channels, but the lone survivor’s videos are quickly going viral and generating millions of views in the process. Here’s what you need to know about TikTok’s time traveler.
In spite of being much newer than many other social media platforms, TikTok has quickly established itself as one of the most important. With a user base that just continues to grow and an algorithm capable of delivering highly relevant videos, TikTok is becoming the go-to option for many on the internet. It also helps that TikTok covers a wide range of topics and genres, including time travel.
The @unicosobreviviente channel on TikTok has recently gone viral. The TikTok “unico sobreviviente” handle is Spanish for “lone survivor” and the creator, who identifies simply as Javier, appears to be posting from the future. Since the channel went live, it has attracted almost three million followers and more than 16 million likes. This is in spite of all of the videos being the same and simply showing Javier walking around. The difference is, wherever Javier goes, there is no one to be found. Everyone has simply disappeared, with the suggestion that the population has since gone extinct. The year is 2027.
Is Lone Survivor A Time Traveler?
In a “My Story” video, Javier explains how after waking up in a hospital, everyone else in the world had simply gone. Since then, Javier has continued to search for people and is documenting the journey on a regular basis through videos uploaded to TikTok. Javier assumed it was still the year 2021 when awaking in hospital, but that was until observing that all the electronic devices stated the year was actually 2027. However, the lone survivor doesn’t actually claim to be a time traveler. Instead, Javier claims to be in a parallel world. One that runs alongside this one, albeit six years in the future and one without people or animals. In this sense, Javier does not appear to be someone traveling through time, but more of a case of someone who is communicating across worlds that are slightly out of linear synchronization. A world that TikTok seems to transcend.
As unusual as it might sound for a time traveler to use TikTok to communicate with others, it is not totally uncommon. For example, there’s also @timetraveler2582 which, as the handle suggests, is the account of a time traveler from the year 2582. Unlike Javier, Timetraveler2582 and many of the other TikTok time travelers tend to be more interested in warning users from the past by providing predictions on the future. However, the lack of predictions from Javier, coupled with the general lack of people, arguably make this TikTok time traveler’s videos all the more intriguing and creepy.
Source: Javier/TikTok