Grab your wool scarves, put on your crunchy-leaf-stompers, fill your mugs with pumpkin spice lattes, and prepare your film cameras — it’s time to romanticise Amsterdam’s autumn season on TikTok. 🧶 🐿 🎃
“A picture speaks a thousand words”, they say, but what about a video? 📽
Enter, cinephiles: the filmmakers who have taken over this year’s DutchTok with their romantic depictions of autumn in Amsterdam.
Characterised by slow-motion videos with soft orange filters, melancholic music, and artistic imagery, these TikToks immortalise the (very rare) good autumn days. 🍂
1. Orange filters and Mazzy Star
Let’s start with the perfect example of what we mean by DutchTok’s romanticism of autumn.
Orange hues, swaying trees, and sombre music — the perfect recipe for a romantic autumn-themed TikTok.
2. A beautiful graveyard of orange leaves
Do you ever find yourself wandering in the streets, allowing yourself to get lost in order to discover a new street?
It’s one of our favourite activities — but in this case, we want the exact coordinates of this road.
Please, someone, tell us so we can enjoy walking through it before the leaves turn to slushy mush. 🙏🏼
3. Time for cafes, vintage stores, and record stores
The best way to keep warm during the glooming coldness is to take shelter in a record store (even though you might end up spending €50…).
*Aggressive shuffling through records*
4. The perfect time capsule of the parks during autumn
If you’re much too restless to spend hours looking through records, there are plenty of parks to explore instead. 🌳
Go outside, touch some (dry and dead) grass, and crunch some leaves with your uggs. 🌳🌰
5. Autumn in Amsterdam is Gossip Girl approved
An effective montage can truly determine a great cinematographer from just a good one — and this user has perfected the craft.
Did someone say Gossip Girl-ify your Amsterdam autumn? Sign me up! 🧤🌇🛍
6. Of course, our most beloved canals had to make an appearance
Did you really think this list could be complete without mentioning Amsterdam’s canals — one of the city’s most cherished and unmissable treasures? (I mean seriously, they’re everywhere.)
The pink fluffy clouds, glistening water beneath, and romantic sway of the boat fit right into the aesthetic. ☁️✨
7. POV you’re a bike on a chilly autumn evening
If bikes could speak, they would have immense attachment issues — we overuse them during the summer and spring, but forget about them during the autumn and winter. 🚲
This should be enough inspiration for you to use your bike before winter. 🤷🏻♀️
8. Studio Ghibli — but set in Amsterdam
Much like Studio Ghibli’s style, this TikTok combines painting-like backgrounds with gentle movements in the foreground.
The perfect balance between a still camera and satisfying motion.
9. Who says rain has to be depressing?
Making the Dutch rain look aesthetic can be difficult, but this TikTok nails it. 🌧
Sometimes, the best pieces of cinema turn negative stereotypes into something we can all appreciate.
10. The cosy comfort we all seek during the cold
They say eat away your feelings (in our case, eat away your winter depression).
With special appearances by: poffertjes (mini pancakes. And yes, they’re truly tiny), steamy dumplings that slip between chopsticks, and of course, the most tasty and cherished Dutch delight — the Febo wall food.
11. Reality check time!
As much as we hate to leave on a sad note, we need to face reality — the reality that Dutch weather just isn’t like most TikToks… ☔️
It’s these reality checks that keep us humble, after all. 🙏🏼
Which TikTok was your favourite? Let us know in the comments.
