What's trending on TikTok today (May 12, 2026)

tiktokshopmemorialday sits fifth on the ladder even though the U.S. federal holiday lands on May 25, 2026, which signals early commerce creative. mothersday still tops the May 11, 2026, 22:01 UTC TikTok snapshot, and eight YouTube Trending lines from the same capture sit in the supporting block below.

Top trending hashtags on TikTok, May 12, 2026

  1. mothersday: still anchors gift ideas, brunch clips, and family photo dumps during the post Sunday carryover window.
  2. worldcup: clusters highlight edits, country pride skits, and countdown posts tied to the June and July 2026 tournament stretch.
  3. tiktoktvfilmcontest: follows voting threads, short film uploads, and creator commentary inside TikTok’s TV and film contest track.
  4. 2020: acts as a loose year label that can attach to throwback memes, anniversary posts, or audio revivals without one fixed news hook.
  5. tiktokshopmemorialday: tags storefront promos, deal stacks, and early summer shopping hooks ahead of Memorial Day weekend.
  6. plotnovel: bundles cliffhanger on screen text, serialized fiction hooks, and “next episode” style creator arcs.
  7. happymothersday: mirrors greeting card aesthetics, flower unboxings, and multilingual shoutouts aimed at moms.
  8. mother: collects portrait edits, tribute audio, and caregiver stories that sit beside the broader Mother's Day cluster.
  9. jujutsushenanigans: carries Jujutsu Kaisen meme audio, cosplay clips, and fandom jokes that spike around episode and promo beats.
  10. tiktokminsgame: groups quick mini game clips, score brags, and challenge prompts inside TikTok’s interactive game formats.
  11. girlsgame: picks up dress up loops, cozy playthroughs, and creator crossovers aimed at younger audiences.
  12. dresstoimpress: ties to the Roblox fashion runway title and adjacent styling memes when the game trends inside the app.
  13. motherday: catches alternate spellings and shorthand posts that still map to the same Mother's Day moment.
  14. brownies: routes bake with me clips, box mix hacks, and dessert trays that often appear in family gathering content tied to the holiday stretch.
  15. diadelasmadres: routes Spanish language Mother's Day posts, especially where regional celebration dates cluster near early May.

The full list of 50 trending hashtags is available via the Trends MCP API. Get your free API key →

What today's TikTok trends reveal

The dominant cluster is still Mother's Day language across multiple spellings and tags, which is normal for the days right after the U.S. Sunday date when recap posts, belated visits, and creator commerce wraps stay active. A second cluster is the long runway for the FIFA World Cup in North America, where generic worldcup labels sit beside fifaworldcup, mundial2026, and fifaworldcup2026 deeper in the full fifty row pull.

Retail signals show up early through tiktokshopmemorialday, which often reads as storefront ads and coupon stacks typical of TikTok Shop campaigns, so the list mixes cultural moments with paid commerce lanes at the same time. Fiction and game adjacent tags such as plotnovel, dresstoimpress, girlsgame, and tiktokminsgame keep a steady baseline that is less tied to the calendar, which helps explain why the ladder still feels busy even after the main Mother's Day spike.

Also trending: YouTube Trending on May 12, 2026

YouTube Trending from the same capture skews toward new music videos, serialized prestige trailers, sports highlights, and a thin slice of cable style news uploads. Eight rows are enough to show where watchlist demand sits beside TikTok’s text first hashtag labels.

  1. aespa 에스파 'WDA (Whole Different Animal) (Feat. G-DRAGON)' MV: a newly published music video release that topped the capture and pairs aespa with G-Dragon on a pre album single rollout.
  2. The Boys Season 5 Episode 7 Trailer | 'The Penultimate Episode': trailer traffic for the late season episode block as Amazon promotes the next drop.
  3. Vegas Golden Knights at Anaheim Ducks: NHL game highlights and recaps circulating inside the sports trending bucket.
  4. AMENAZZY X ALOFOKE MUSIC - EL SULTAN: a trending music upload with strong Latin market pickup on the day of the pull.
  5. Mom Movie Trailer - SNL: a Saturday Night Live filmed trailer sketch that rides comedy and Mother's Day adjacent search interest.
  6. America's Newsroom: a Fox News daytime program clip that still surfaces in the trending news set during major cycles.
  7. Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us: sustained replay traffic for the track and related commentary clips around the ongoing rap headline cycle.
  8. THE RIVALS OF AMZIAH KING Official Trailer (2026) Matthew McConaughey: a fresh film trailer wave tied to the named cast and 2026 release positioning.

Track these trends in real time with Trends MCP

This roundup used the Trends MCP get_top_trends endpoint to read ranked leaders for TikTok and YouTube without injecting manual ranks. Teams that need the full fifty row pulls for modeling, alerts, or client reporting can repeat the call inside their own stack and page with the documented offset parameters. The TikTok source page on trendsmcp.ai documents the exact type string for this feed: TikTok trending hashtags data source.

{
  "mode": "top_trends",
  "type": "TikTok Trending Hashtags"
}

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