Popular procrastination app TikTok almost crashed today, after its servers were inundated by a mass of new users who all happened to be born on the 1st of January, 1901. Genealogists are baffled as to how the massive spike in births 100-plus years ago went completely undocumented.

'What's curious is why all these 124-year-olds decided that today would be the day they download TikTok, of all days,' mused Rebecca Statler from the Society of Australian Genealogists. 'Even more curious is how we can see that all of them are already entirely familiar with online slang and culture, as if they'd been using social media since they were children.'

Coincidentally, today is when Australia's world-first under-16s social media ban was enacted. Also coincidentally, 01/01/1901 is the furthest back TikTok's app allows new users to select a birthdate.

'But that's not worth looking into,' asserted a TikTok spokesperson. 'All that matters is that we'll still be able to keep collecting data and ad revenue from your childr— I mean, these fully-grown adults.'

The Liberal Party has celebrated the news, as the thousands of new supercentenarians might give them a fighting chance in a future election.