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Ong Yi Ting

Singapore-based content creator & strategist known as "That Hokkien Girl" promoting dialect preservation through social media.

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Jul 15, 2026

Can Singapore’s dialects survive or are they becoming history?

Jul 15 · 24m

Tiffany AngHOST

4:10

Let's talk a little bit about how you started on this journey.

Ong Yi TingGUEST

4:12

I think I uploaded my very first TikTok video.

Ong Yi TingGUEST

4:15

Back then, TikTok wasn't really a big thing.

Ong Yi TingGUEST

4:17

So I uploaded one video of me and my grandmother conversing in Hokkien.

Ong Yi TingGUEST

4:22

And then I went to bed.

Ong Yi TingGUEST

4:23

I think it was like 3 to 4 a.m. And then next morning, I woke up.

Ong Yi TingGUEST

4:26

I just blew up online.

12 MINS LATER

Tiffany AngHOST

16:43

Yeah, so how much of it is truly wanting to learn so they can communicate to an older generation that will soon be moving on? And how much of it is exotic, you know, the novelty factor? Like they want to get more of this content because it's entertaining for them rather than that they are learning something from you.