Thanks to author Elizabeth Kingston on Twitter, I now know that Sea Shanty TikTok is a Thing. It's mostly because of a young Scotsman named Nathan Evans:
Which was then remixed into a duet (because that's a thing that happens on TikTok):
And then it just kept expanding:
With more people getting in on the action:
There are other songs, too — like this Scottish singer who was dueted by a, uhhhh, sword forge?
She also teamed up with some of the other #seashanty TikTok singers for some folksy group singing:
Even if you're old and out-of-touch like me, you can still spend some time falling down the SeaShanty TikTok wormhole—you will not be disappointed.