Sky News has found Nazi speeches and marching music have been turned into popular ‘sounds’ (audio used as the basis for multiple videos) on TikTok and are being used as soundtracks on at least 72,534 posts.
Videos using these sounds have attracted high levels of engagement on the platform, with some receiving millions of likes from TikTok users.
Examples include one post blaming Jewish people for the ‘Islamisation of Europe’, and another that contains the text “by mixing white with black, white disappears” next to a stock image of an interracial couple.
Searching TikTok between 2-3 September revealed 50,023 posts using sounds incorporating speeches from Nazis including Adolf Hitler and his chief propagandist Joseph Goebbels.
To appeal to a wider audience, most of the speeches are set to a type of music popular on TikTok called Drift Phonk – without the creators’ permission or knowledge.
One post, which shows an image of a Nuremberg Rally accompanied by a Hitler speech, has been liked by more than 56,700 users.
In a shocking comment that has been liked 1,695 times, one user states “modern society absolutely needs him.” Another says, “we miss you”.
The most popular sound made using a Hitler speech viewed by Sky News has been used in over 10,300 videos.
