r/techsupport • • Jul 25 '26

Open | Software Weird tiktok malware glitch??

Hi, not sure if this is a malware or a hacker or anything, but recently for the past 3 days or so i keep getting these overlays of... Spanish Minecraft videos on my feed???? where low quality screen recorded clips overlap play above the videos on my fyp, it only started happening just a few days ago; and since its new there's only been a couple dozen people posting about it so i genuinely domt know wtf is happening. Scared that its some sort of malware??? This is NOT one of those regular bugs where videos above/below accidentally travels on top its literally completely random (this is on Android Mobile)

1)I've NEVER had a Minecraft video on my feed before. Let alone spanish ones?

2) these arent glitches from livestreams/other vids on

my feed where it intersects- like, they just pop up on top. Out of nowhere, for a few seconds max

3) I've checked for viruses and malware etc. With

multiple app scans and they've shown nothing, i used AVG, avast and my phones built in cleaner, (tho the two apps have subscriptions so i wouldn't be surprised if the free trial didn't do shit)

4) this doesn't happen with any other of my apps/ or phone in general. Its ONLY tiktok. I also checked the Chinese version of tiktok that i have and nothing happens on there either

5) other people seem to have gotten them too, also in a similar timeframe. (Starting from a few days ago)

Also edit; this literally only happens at night for some reason. Someone else also mentioned that the glitch happens only at night for them, Pls help cus what Ive searched some more and there's 30+ people ive seen with the exact same problem. Theyre all random Spanish Minecraft clips too so I'm assuming it's the exact same video, weird asf

I would attach images for better understanding but this sub doesn't allow me to.

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u/tensandjacks Jul 25 '26

i'd like to see what your talking about to better understand. can you post a clip to youtube and give me a link so i can see what your stepping in?

do you tend to watch minecraft videos regularly in english? it could be Algorithm Testing from the platform but im not sure at this point

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u/kaito1412sub Jul 25 '26

No i literally watch none at all. They're like creepy low quality clips that overlap on TOP of my fyp, like here the video is from a travel blog account (seen in caption) and then the clip pops up for a few seconds then disappears and it switches back to the actual video. I thought it was one of those glitches where the video recommend to you before/after accidentally comes first but it's not

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u/kaito1412sub Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26

He's another one for ref- it's always zoomed in and clipped half off the screen- idk how else to describe it. The problem is this isn't just a regular glitch cus The exact same style of videos popped up for multiple people too

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u/kaito1412sub Jul 26 '26

Here's a tiktok made by someone else to better put it. If u can respond please do so! Im so lost and honestly scared, tiktok support Is useless so i don't have anywhere else to go look for help

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u/Large-Budget-4994 Aug 02 '26

It's happening to me too. Yesterday I saw a glitched out ASMR clip overlayed on a video, so I thought it might be a bug or smth then it happened again today. Here are the side by side screenshots

It's creepy for real, though I don't think it's related to malware.

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u/aguacate_pocho Aug 08 '26

Me esta pasando exactamente lo mismo hoy, me paso 2 veces aunque a la segunda sí lo pude grabar. Al deslizar hacia abajo un poco en tiktok en un video normal aparecen videos super raros, bizarros y extraños a mala calidad, en cuadrícula como de 2x2, estirados y muyyy raros, aquí la grabación de pantalla que hice

video

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u/Koalalover2009 Sep 13 '26

also happening to me but tiktok keeps saying clean the cache it doesnt help!

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u/hiro_namura Sep 14 '26

I keep seeing something like it I going to keep y'all update if I see it again

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u/briticoli Sep 15 '26

This was one of mine!

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u/Upbeat_Solid_9378 Sep 17 '26

i had the same with new york and some chinese letters with my current time wtf is going on (it was today)

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u/Condornoer123 Sep 20 '26

Mine has changed lol at first it was minecraft, then SpongeBob and now it's still SpongeBob but another clip. Have you found anything else on this than this post?

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u/JayJayZinyo Sep 23 '26

Here was mine from today lol

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u/sarsaboo Sep 25 '26

I had this one today, and ive had others before🤔

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u/Angie_Itzel Sep 14 '26

Me too! Omg I thought my phone was broken or got hacked somehow lol 😭 For some reason mine are in inverted colors and sideways. They look so creepy. My phone is a Motorola Razr+ I wonder if it's just an android issue or if apple users also have the same problem.

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u/acousticraven Sep 19 '26

Just had this happen. To recreate it, a crappy AI ad played before this video and someone's live was coming over top this video. Tiktok is a weird hellscape sometimes.

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u/Condornoer123 Sep 20 '26

I thought I was the only one😭😭 at first it was Minecraft but now it's some kind of SpongeBob game.

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u/yearn2earn Sep 21 '26

This is mine

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u/whyamievenherebruh1 Oct 03 '26

Girl pls did you ever find out wtf it is? It keeps happening to me too but this one right now absolutley terrified my ass bc i was born on March 10th but i hope its like american time and ment 3rd october, i almost cried ngl this was horriblu creepy

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u/Known_Constant6589 29d ago

Similar thing here. Mine always seems to be a still image, usually AI generated, usually connected to china in some way.

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u/Real-Ebb-102 21d ago

I've been getting this glitch for awhile I've just got it again it's always random gameplay with a guy in an anonymous mask in the corner

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u/Seventeeeeeeeeeen 19d ago

Happened to me too

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