TikTok creators are roasting Oscars presenters ahead of the awards show

• TikTok creators are making fun of the way Oscars presenters announce nominees during the show.
• Anne Hollister and Kyle Gordon, two satirizers, told Insider the inspirations behind their videos.
• "I love how stilted and self-aggrandizing the language of Oscar presenters is," Gordon told Insider.

With the 93rd annual Academy Awards airing on Sunday, TikTok creators are poking fun at the way Oscars presenters announce the nominations.

The videos feature TikTokers dressed up in gowns and tuxedos, satirically "presenting" the nominations that are up for the award. Each creator has their own style of satire - one joked about the way presenters dramatize the synopsis of the movies, while others parodied the movie nominations themselves, as well as the names of the nominees.

Anne Hollister first went viral on TikTok in March after she posted a video with the caption "Wait for it," as she goes on to vaguely describe the plot of a movie. The text on the video read, "How they introduce movies at the Oscars."

"A young African woman moves to the United States and attempts to assimilate in a midwestern school in the years leading up to the great economic recession," Hollister said in the video. "A classic story of growing up, falling in love, and dreaming big is made poignant with a heartfelt script and performances by a 'fetching' young ensemble cast. This is 'Mean Girls.'"

Her video garnered over 621,000 views, over 158,000 likes, and over 1,000 comments. One person replied to the video and said, "I'm here to formally request this be a series." Soon after, Hollister posted seven more videos.

The inspiration to make the video came after Hollister and her roommate watched "Minari," which is nominated for six awards at this year's Academy Awards, she told Insider in an email.

Hollister said this led her to think about "how they were going to present the movie at the Oscars. I turned to my roommate and we talked about how the Oscars take themselves so seriously."

Christian Haynes usually posts comedic videos for his over one million followers. Even before the nominees for this year's Academy Awards were announced, he posted a skit in January spoofing the clips that are played when the nominations are presented. In the video, the text read "The Oscars be like" and Haynes announced fake nominations with titles like "Lover Boy," "The White Boy Trapped Inside," and "Finding Mr. Walker."

The comments section was filled with people praising Haynes because of how accurately they felt he portrayed the Oscars. In the video, Haynes announced the winner for his fake Oscars, and in his voiceover, he said, "This is his first Oscar and his 99th nomination," which someone commented asking "Why is this so accurate?"

Haynes did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

TikTok creator Kyle Gordon and his friend, Canning Robb, recorded themselves pretending to be presenters at a fictional Oscars ceremony. "I love how stilted and self-aggrandizing the language of Oscar presenters is. It's so funny, and it's the same every year," Gordon told Insider in a direct message on Instagram.

Gordon had a similar style to Haynes', but poked fun at "the style of the presenters" and "had some fun parodying the names of the nominees and movies," he said.

In a TikTok posted Thursday that has more than 760,000 views, Gordon said, "Movies have the power to transport us to distant lands."

In the video, the two then take turns listing fictional settings for movies. "While we all rely on great actors, directors, and cinematographers, none of this would be possible without one person. The most important person on set: The supervising sound editor," Gordon said.

He told Insider he was specifically inspired by a video of Will Smith calling sound editors the "superheroes of post-production.'"

The Oscars air on ABC on Sunday at 8 p.m. ET.