By Ella Franzman – Editor-In-Chief

The Jonathan Law Class of 2014 Senior Video is suddenly a viral sensation on TikTok – 10 years later – thanks to alum Matt Tighe, also known as MattTheBat.

Over the past few weeks, Tighe has posted clips of the “Where Will You Be In 10 Years?” segment of the Senior Video on TikTok. Those clips have amassed tens of millions of views on the social media platform.

“A while back I saw that someone was posting the ‘10 Year’ videos from other grades, and thought it was really well done and cool,” Tighe said. 

TikTok users then began asking for updates on the Class of 2014 graduates, so Tighe reached out to his fellow alumni and has since posted updates from over a dozen students and teachers from the video. These updates – and Tighe’s commentary that accompanies each submission – have already generated over 11 million views.

Class of 2014 alum Casey Bostic recently sent in her update video. Bostic said in her Senior Video segment that in 10 years, she would be living on a farm in Wisconsin with five children. In her update, Bostic revealed that she did in fact move to Wisconsin, does not have five children, but recently got engaged. 

“I’m not exactly where I thought I would be when I was 18,” Bostic joked in her video response. “But in this economy, that’s probably a good thing.”

Class of 2014 alum Hazal Kayalioglu also recently sent in an update video. In her Senior Video response, she said she saw herself as a veterinarian in 10 years. But after a college professor bluntly told her that she was not picking up the concepts of her course quickly enough to be a veterinarian, she switched paths and began a career she loves in the public health field.

She currently lives in New York with her fiancee, dog, and two cats.

“It makes me so happy to see where everybody is and what everyone is doing,” Kayalioglu said. “If we have a 10 year reunion, I am so there. I would love to see everyone again.”

In his own answer to the “Where Will You Be In 10 Years?” question, Tighe said in 2014 that he hoped to be a millionaire and a talk show host – and so far, he is halfway there.

“I started posting to YouTube in 2008 and have been making content ever since,” Tighe said. “Though my content has changed a lot over the years, I’ve consistently experimented with the type of things I post.”

Tighe also has a YouTube channel called “MattTheBat” where he creates various content. The channel is a mix of commentary, travel vlog clips, and his animated talk show. 

“I like to call my content ‘creative complaining’ where I’ll go on rants about various things in my life,” Tighe said. “I often cover pop culture and tell stories about my life. Many of which, about my childhood in Connecticut.”

Tighe currently has a full-time job in marketing, and since leaving Law, he has worked as a producer for Nickelodeon and as a freelance writer. He has had several music and entertainment articles published in Rolling Stone magazine.

His TikTok account, meanwhile, has become as popular as ever over the past few weeks due to his latest Senior Video posts. He has recently added updates from members of the Law Class of 2013 Senior Video as well.

English teacher Mr. Kulenych, who had Tighe in his Journalism and Broadcast Journalism classes, said he is extremely proud of his former student.

“Matt is so talented and has done so many creative, entertaining projects in his life post-Law – and this is just the latest,” Kulenych said. “The Class of 2014 was a special group and it’s been awesome seeing where life has taken the members of that class. It’s been a fun ‘family reunion’ on TikTok over the past few weeks and I can’t wait to see more updates in the future.”

History teacher Mr. Young, who recently left Law to become a history teacher and the head girls basketball coach at Masuk High School in Monroe, said he loves being able to reconnect with his former students through this TikTok series. 

“It’s been so awesome to see the Class of 2014 reconnect,” Young said. “They will always be a special group, my first AP Psychology class. It was so much fun as a teacher to work with them and be part of the Law community. I was a second year teacher and they really inspired me and to take advantage of each day.”