Others said that putting the video on TikTok meant that their loved one's reaction would be recorded for posterity, because the internet is forever. While the friend is left dumbfounded as to why she's not singing along to the Lizzo song as she expected, Harding knew the remix was coming all along, allowing her to simply lay out her message: 'I like girls.' But instead of Lizzo singing that she likes 'big boys and itty bitty boys,' the song jumps seamlessly to the first lines of Beastie Boys' 'Girls'. In a video later posted to TikTok, Harding and her friend are seen posing in front of the phone camera as a few notes from Lizzo's 'Boys' play. Suddenly, coming out didn't seem as scary, and Harding decided to start the process with one of her closest friends. Harding told Business Insider that not only were teens like her out and proud on the platform, but they were fiercely supportive of each other in a way she had never seen before. When Jenn Harding first understood she was catching more-than-platonic feelings for a girl, years had passed since it was instilled in her - for the first of many times in her small Michigan hometown - that homosexuality is a sin.īut Harding, 20, then discovered a community beyond her 'super conservative Catholic family' on the video-sharing app TikTok.
