Did you know that TikTok has its own secret vocabulary? Here’s what ‘TikTok Accountant’ really means.
TikTok is full of bizarre terms, and if you’re not a TikTok fanatic, you probably won’t understand what a lot of them mean.
The latest phrase to go viral on the app is ‘TikTok Accountant’, and it has nothing to do with accountants.
Here’s exactly what the slang term means…
What is a TikTok accountant?
- Sex worker.
‘TikTok Accountant’ is a term that people on TikTok use to refer to people that do sex work.
This can include on a large-scale, such as pornography, as well as people who make money through sites like OnlyFans.
Where did the term originate?
The term originated when a TikTok user called @rockysroad made up a song called “I’m an Accountant”.
In the video, he spoke about his career as a struggling actor before saying he would rather tell people he’s an accountant than reveal his true job.
He sang the lyrics:
“I’m a struggling actor / but if I’m asked by a stranger what I do, / I usually end up telling a lie / because there’s too much to get through/ I’d rather smile and simply state that I have a full-time job…as an accountant.”
Rocky Paterra, the 28-year-old actor and musician based in New York gained over 700,000 likes on the video which many other people who worked in the arts found incredibly relatable.
The song started being used by other TikTok users and quickly adopted a different meaning associated with sex workers.
Why do people use the term?
The phrase ‘TikTok Accountant’ is used to explain the idea that people in some careers would rather say they are an accountant than reveal what they actually do as a job.
The same concept applies for both acting and sex workers, as people in both careers are wary of telling people what they do for fear of judgement.
Rocky Paterra told BuzzFeed that he doesn’t remember the exact moment he started to notice the song “exiting the actor world and entering the OnlyFans world” before saying:
“It made me realize that the song can function as an anthem for any line of work that you might not always want to have conversations with people about. Explaining the struggling actor life sometimes comes with its own awkward and annoying dialogue, and I’m sure that’s true for lots of other industries as well, so I’m just happy that my song can set a comedic tone for this scenario.”