Soon after moving out, she left her old life behind and transformed herself

Her Tiktok got more than 10 million views, 2.7 million likes and 10.6K comments.

@cherryemojigirl

if you knew me in middle and high school, no you didn’t ❤️ feel free to use this audio ##gloup ##transformation

♬ growing up conservative glo up - cherryemojigirl 🍒

Soon after Cherryemojigirl's video went viral, many people decided to follow the trend and shared their glow ups with the whole world.

Growing up in a conservative household, Cherryemojigirl was never allowed to express her true self through her appearance. So she never felt like that was the 'real' her.

Soon after graduation, the TikToker gained the freedom to do with herself as she pleases, so she changed her style entirely. She's a completely new person now.

Jay Burleigh shared with Bored Panda what it was like coming out as queer to her loved ones

@jaybaebae96

If you’re from hs and seeing this, yes I know I wasn’t cool but I’m on ~top~ now. ##iykyk ##gaytiktok ##lesbian ##lesbiantiktok ##lgbt ##lgbtq ##fyp ##glowup

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Jay decided to embrace and explore her gender fluidity ever since she came out.

“I’d been so used to such strict expectations of what made a person a woman and what made them a man so anything in between wasn’t seen as ‘girly’ or ‘manly.’ I had to release those ideas and restructure my ideas of what made me feel more feminine and what made me feel more masculine and what just let me float in between. With this, I really learned to love myself for every piece of me.”

She also shared some advice for anyone who's still going through what she had to deal with in the past:

“It doesn’t matter how hard you try, you’ll never please everyone, but by embracing yourself the self-love you feel will overcome the judgment around you,” she said.

“Be okay with the idea that people will leave your life, learn from the lesson they left, and be bravely and beautifully you despite the hate that lives around us. It’s a long and hard journey but it’s well worth the climb,”

Several other TikTok users were inspired by the trend and decided to also share their glow-up stories:

@masondenverr

I’ve never felt so seen by an audio before.

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@ashertattoos

Sorry Mahm 🥳

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@captainofthecows

i had to google how to use tik tok to make this but this has me DYING. how do i find ##trans tik tok 👁👄👁

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@cybr.grl

exposing my past 😳 my parents chose my clothes so I didn’t have much freedom wearing what I wanted to...but now that I’m grown I can 🤪 ##rainbowlady

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@leonardoxdeasis

This sound read me for filth so I knew I had to do it. 😂🤣 I got a mullet now but I HAD to bring back my old hair for this haha! ##fyp ##guam ##gloup

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@moodie.maggie

had to hop on this trend 👀 ##fyp ##alt

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@myakatee

oops 🤭

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@nikidemar

this is called graduating catholic school glow up ##greenscreen ##fyp

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@quiet.cos

It’s the Snapchat filters for me ##greenscreen ##fyp ##glowup ##goth ##trend ##stepintolove ##SongOfTheSummer ##moodflip

♬ growing up conservative glo up - cherryemojigirl 🍒

@scary_styles

aye yo. alabama check ##BeautyEssentials ##moodflip ##transformation ##glowupchallenge ##fyp

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@thiccydyke

my friends arent “PrEpPy” but i had to hop on this audio ##greenscreen ##fyp

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@thiiiisfoolia5150

Graduated 9 years ago and am finally finding out who I am ##fyp ##glowup

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