If you’re someone who is extremely online, or just a general fan of TikTok, by now you’ve caught onto the sea shanty trend that’s been going around. In fact, a tweet proclaiming “2021 is the year of the sea shanty” has gotten over 300K likes at the time of this article — and it’s not hard to see why.
2021 is the year of the sea shanty pic.twitter.com/ohOAGvkbtC
— Tim – Poster of Hugo Pics (@Beertheist) January 11, 2021
Not only are they fun and catchy, but some of them also happen to be incredibly informative. Take this one from TikTok user Alyse Knorr: