TikTok awards: Thep00lguy, Nicholas Flannery and Kyra-Mae among winners

A film parody actor, a pool cleaner and pickle chef are among those honoured at UK's first TikTok awards.

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On Tuesday evening, 72 shortlisted content creators - who have a combined follower count of more than 101m - attended an awards ceremony celebrating creators across 12 categories including fashion, travel, food and education.

The event in west London was everything you imagine an awards ceremony for the chronically online to be like. There were endless photo opportunities, more ring lights than people - and some creators seen refreshing their follower accounts during the ceremony.

Those who won awards told the BBC about how they rose to stardom on the video platform, and expressed their views on whether short social media videos were contributing to "brain rot" - the supposed deterioration of a person's mental state due to over-consumption of low-quality or unchallenging online content.

"My life changed just from pickling a cucumber," Maddi Neye-Swift told the BBC as she picked up her award for food creator of the year.

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