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As I scrolled through my For You Page on TikTok the other day, I initially laughed at a video by Chhavi Verg. Verg was hopping on a favorite trend of mine, where TikTokers poke fun at their very serious life situations with Bo Burnham’s ominous laugh in the background. But the clip became less funny, and intensely serious, when I realized that it carried heavy undertones of oppressions—all under the guise of mocking arranged marriages on TikTok. In a nutshell, Verg’s video wa