Raunchy ‘ParkTok’ trend goes viral with risqué videos raising awareness of spending cuts to national parks

Are you basking and dense for nationalist parks? These group want you to be.

Videos mixing raunchy and sexually suggestive captions, audio aliases clips mixed pinch beautiful videos of American nationalist parks are going viral connected TikTok — aliases ParkTok, arsenic nan kids are calling it.

In 1 clip posted by @visit.yellowstone, Johnathon Caine, an OnlyFans creator, smiles slyly into nan camera from respective angles earlier leaning over, flexing shirtless into nan surface earlier nan video cuts to clips of an alpine lake.

Another video connected nan aforesaid relationship shows a female dressed successful a sexy feline costume dancing to a rap opus earlier it cuts to a stunning segment of a park. The caption reads: “Thirst Trap Thursday coming successful basking and no, it’s not conscionable nan hike. Serving scenic legs and waterfall teases connected nan measurement to Nevada Falls. Nature’s not nan only point dripping.”

Other ParkTok videos look guiltless capable pinch stunning views of Multnomah Falls — yet if you move nan measurement up, nan euphony choices are beyond suggestive and explicit.

The logic down these unexpected spicy videos?

Nature lovers are hoping to extremity group mid-scroll to bring attraction to nan earthy beauty of these parks — and nan threats they’re facing owed to President Trump’s effort to trim nationalist parkland staffing, which “could consequence successful much than a 75% simplification to nan National Park System,” according to NPCA.

“This does spell measurement beyond nan thirst traps,” Kim Tanner, who runs nan unofficial Joshua Tree relationship @joshuatreenp pinch much than 250,000 followers, told CNN.

“It’s a measurement to propulsion group in, it’s a measurement to hook them, and it works. But astatine nan aforesaid time, you’re showing them that beautiful imagery [of nan parks] and hopefully, moreover if subliminally, you’re educating them.”

Funny matter overlay is different maneuver to get viewers’ attention. tiktok/@visit.yosemite

Many ParkTokkers dream that viewers donate to organizations for illustration nan National Park Foundation aliases interaction section representatives to advocator for their governmental support of nan parks.

Sometimes nan accounts make jokes astir which has nan “biggest trees” aliases “longest lakes” seemingly competing pinch 1 different — but galore of them are really moving together.

Phoebe, a quality enthusiast who started nan unofficial Multnomah Falls relationship @multnomah_falls to simply stock her emotion of Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge, realized she could do much than conscionable gush astir really breathtaking her favourite area is.

That’s why she joined a group chat connected TikTok pinch fellow-minded ParkTokkers.

“We started reasoning we could astir apt do immoderate bully pinch this alternatively of conscionable sharing our hiking videos,” Phoebe told nan outlet.

So, they began “doing coordinated, themed posts, successful betwixt our silly posts and our quality posts, astir nan threats of logging and nan threats of our nationalist lands being sold and each of these things that person been introduced by nan national government,” she said.

These contented creators dream their buzzy, spice-filled videos will move group connected to protect nan parks.