It’s a bit late to be sharing this here, but I posted it on the day on TikTok.

Up to Valentine’s Day, TikTok sent me a variety of hearts related origami in my feed that I use mostly for learning rather than entertainment. Once I saw a handful to realize there was a good variety there, I took it upon myself to learn them, then make them out of larger than usual papers, to just give away on Valentine’s Day. Evening, to be exact. I left them on tables in the Scotia Square food court that was generally closed in terms of the food places, but open for others coming through, waiting for something, etc. who were not likely out on dates on the night.

Those origami hearts will be nice additions to my origami repertoire to personalize gifts, or be personalized gifts themselves! Thanks, TikTok!

While here, I should mention TikTok origamis are generally terrible for learning. They do them very quickly like trying to jam them into a soundtrack length rather than being helpful to the learner, and without verbal instructions to help further. However, they have more variety than what YouTube has ever sent me, and that is helpful because you can’t find things you don’t know what to search for, and the YouTube feed just wasn’t very good to show me interesting origami. It was all the same stuff or not even origami when I had watched and searched for a bunch that you think its algorithm would have known better!

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