According to Jamie Lee Curtis Taete of Vice News, "Via Alyssa, the pop has crossed over into fairly mainstream queer usage.
It has a variety of meanings, but is generally used to emphasize something, dismiss another person, or act as an exclamation point.
"[2] Alyssa Edwards has released a "novelty Christmas song" called "Tongue Pop the Halls".
[2] Cheryl Hole of RuPaul's Drag Race UK also tongue pops.
In order to do drag, you have to learn how to do this ... And that’s different from a tongue click, which is a different mechanism, and the differentiation is very important.