TikTok's had a fruitful, delicious, and undeniably challenging year, both on and offline. When the social media platform wasn't bleeding lime green during brat summer, dropping CapCuts of Moo Deng's lettuce hat,

TikTok revealed its top trends of the year, including Jools Lebron's "very demure, very mindful" catchphrase and the "Knights of the Rotund Table" -- baby animals like Moo Deng the hippo and Pesto the penguin.

The presidential election, Chappell Roan's rise and fall, Moo Deng mania, and more internet moments that have defined 2024.

Moo Deng is small not just because she's a baby, but because she's a pygmy hippo. Native to West Africa, pygmies weigh less than one-fourth of the common hippo (which is one of the largest mammals on Earth). The pygmy hippo is actually an endangered species, with around only 2,000 remaining.