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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Toastwaver on 2025-12-02 03:47:28+00:00.
52 year-old professional Dad with a wife and two teen daughters. Every few weeks one of them shares a TikTok video with me and I have to remind them that I don't have TikTok so won't be able to see it.
As a result of this FOMO as well as some sales reps in my company using TikTok for business development purposes, I signed up for TikTok a couple months ago. I've been on it about five times.
Yesterday my wife said "Oh I've been meaning to tell you: a few years ago [Daughter] had her TikTok account banned and you must've give her your phone number so she could create another one (which I vaguely recall). So when you got on TikTok last month, it associated your account with your existing phone number and existing user name.
Existing user name?
She told me to look and there it was:
@bootyholelol
Now thankfully I don't have any "friends" on the app other than my family, but if I can get friend recommendations based on phone numbers, I'm sure that friends and coworkers are also getting suggestions to pal around with me: @bootyholelol
I've gone in and changed the name.
TL;DR: I thought I signed up for TikTok as a new user, only to later discover that years ago my daughter used my number to create an account called @bootyholelol, which became my handle, unbeknownst to me for two months.