Election analysts became unlikely TikTok icons after their tireless broadcasts

• CNN's John King and MSNBC's Steve Kornacki have become unexpected icons on the internet in the days after the election.
• On TikTok, the #SteveKornacki hashtag had more than 660,000 views and the #JohnKing hashtag had 4.3 million views as of Friday morning.
• Here are the best TikToks about the news anchors.

As votes continued to be counted in the 2020 presidential election, there was one unifying source of comfort for TikTokers: CNN's John King and MSNBC's Steve Kornacki, whose positive vibes and seemingly endless amounts of energy kept them mapping out election results on-air for days.

King, CNN's chief national correspondent, and Kornacki, a national political correspondent for MSNBC and NBC News, were tasked with the tough jobs of manning their networks' respective election maps during the week of the election. As each new so-called "dump" of votes rolled in, they tirelessly mapped out how the new votes would impact the tight race between President Donald Trump and President-elect Joe Biden, whose win Insider and Decision Desk HQ projected on Friday morning.

King and Kornacki were sights for sore eyes for many news-watchers who took to TikTok to praise the news anchors. As of Friday morning, the #SteveKornacki hashtag had more than 660,000 views and the #JohnKing hashtag had 4.3 million views.

TikTokers were concerned that King and Kornacki were sleep-deprived

Kornacki finally took a break from screen time on Wednesday afternoon, after more than 24 hours of Election Day work, The Washington Post reported. Kornacki told GQ that a "constant supply" of Diet Coke was keeping him awake. King only slept a total of 6.5 hours between Tuesday and Thursday, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Chrissy Teigen tweeted on Wednesday a picture of herself holding her eyes open, writing, "I honestly dunno how steve is still going im bout to die."

Others just couldn't believe how many hours of work they were putting in

The stamina of both King and Kornacki has been hard to fathom. Even other anchors and analysts had to ask how they were still standing. Joyce Van White, a legal analyst for MSNBC, said in a Thursday tweet, "How is @SteveKornacki still lucid?"

The best TikToks, though, were from people crushing on the anchors

Fancams — videos editing together footage of a group or person, originated by the K-pop fan community — have been huge in the King and Kornacki TikTok Cinematic Universe. In addition to the well-edited fancams, though, many TikTokers just commented on their crushes.

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