As digital media pervades every aspect of our lives, the ways in which we record, view and respond to wars are being shaped by these technologies. Within our deeply mediatised society (Couldry and Hepp 2017), in times of crisis, individ- uals turn to social media to tell their stories of trauma and grief (Eriksson 2016; Leaver and Highfield 2018). This allows the specific realities of war, trauma and collective suffering to be witnessed, shared, seen and remixed. This chapter delves into the war in Ukraine as it is depicted and mediated through the lens of one of the most prominent Ukrainian TikTok users of 2022, Valeria Shashe- nok (@valerisssh). Through this example, we examine how ongoing cultural trauma and its audiovisual representations are presented on digital platforms. In particular, we explore how users leverage TikTok’s technological features, such as duets, stitches and the LIVE, to create meme-based templates for com- municating the realities of warfare, showing how these templates shape digital expressions of trauma. Expanding previous work on cultural trauma, collec- tive grief, and history in digital spaces (Abidin, 2019; Divon and Ebbrecht- Hartmann 2022; Eriksson 2016; 2018; Eriksson Krutrök 2021; Leaver & High- field 2018), this chapter places emphasis on the role of audiovisual memes on TikTok as templates for war storytelling in Ukraine in 2022.