About

Ariana Grande's Sleeves is a series of TikTok videos in which users pretend to be Ariana Grande by wearing an oversized hoodie with sleeves that fall past the wearers hands. The videos which became popular in November 2019, are typically set to Grande's song 7 Rings and show the users performing tasks which the sleeves over their hands.

Origin

On November 15th, 2019, TikTok user @prodpsilo uploaded a video in which they use their sleeved hands to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich (shown below). The video gained over 191,500 likes and 15,800 shares in a week.

Spread

On November 16th, 2019, TikTok user @piptersen uploaded a video impersonating submitting an assignment (shown below, left). The video garnered over 166,400 likes and 6,600 shares in six days. On November 18th, TikTok user @artbyafra uploaded a video impersonating Ariana Grande putting on makeup (shown below, left). The video accumulated over 432,000 likes and 13,700 shares in four days. The next day, TikTok user @allicattt uploaded another iteration which gathered over 109,800 likes in three days (shown below, right).

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