r/investigation

TLDR: I’m seeing TikTok comments from unrelated accounts with the same weird gray “Voted ‘yumleaks on X 🍑***’”*** label underneath them, including on videos that have no poll. I’m trying to figure out what the label actually means, how these accounts are generating it, and whether it’s being exploited as some kind of coordinated spam tactic

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I’ve been seeing something really strange in TikTok comment sections lately and I’m trying to figure out what is actually happening.

Under seemingly normal comments, TikTok is displaying a gray label that says: “Voted ‘yumleaks on X 🍑’”

The comments themselves are usually incredibly generic things like 🔥🔥🔥 or “omg she is so cute 🥺” and I’ve seen multiple unrelated accounts with the exact same “Voted” label underneath them.

What initially caught my attention was seeing a bunch of these underneath viral videos from a creator who openly says she’s 16. I thought the wording “yumleaks” + 🍑 was pretty disturbing in that context.

Then it got weirder.

I have a TikTok account for my cats/kitten, and I found the same type of comments underneath one particular video of her. The video is literally just my kitten remembering that she gives me a kiss before going to sleep. I haven’t noticed these labels on my other videos.

I understand that TikTok has/had voting or polling features, but there is no “yumleaks” poll on my video, obviously. Clicking the gray label also seems to do nothing.

So I’m trying to understand the actual mechanism here:
Are these accounts interacting with some separate poll called “yumleaks on X 🍑” and TikTok is somehow displaying that voting activity underneath comments they leave elsewhere?

Is this some kind of spam technique where the “Voted” label is being exploited to advertise a search phrase?

And has anyone figured out why these accounts seem to be appearing in certain comment sections?

I’ve seen other people on Reddit mention the exact same phrase, so apparently I’m not the only person seeing it.
To be clear: I’m not claiming the creators whose videos these appear under are involved in anything. I’m trying to understand what the accounts leaving these comments are doing and what TikTok’s “Voted” label actually represents.