Black Girl Confidence Bop
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Black Girl Confidence Bop refers to a viral video of TikToker Andie, aka @realistichuman, a white person, dancing to the song "Put Your Records On" by Corinne Bailey Rae under the caption, "This song is such a little Black girl confidence bop." The video became the subject of reactions and parodies starting in May 2023, with many finding it strange, problematic and cringe for a white person to use the caption, inspiring the TikToker to delete the video. The video continued to inspire parodies in July 2023, including by TikToker @alpha.pookie.
Origin
On an unknown date prior to May 26th, 2023, TIkToker[1] @realistichuman, aka Andie (he/they), posted a video where he dances to the song "Put Your Records On" by Corinne Bailey Rae, captioned, "This song is such a little Black girl confidence bop," garnering an unknown number of views before it was deleted. It has been re-uploaded to TikTok numerous times, including by TikToker[2] @cutefrilled on July 6th, garnering over 5.6 million views in a month (shown below).
@cutefrilled #fyp #foryou #foryoupage #velvetfei β¬ original sound β cheesecake
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The video became the subject of criticism, reactions and parodies on TikTok in May 2023. On May 26th, 2023, TikToker[3] @potheadmelly posted a reaction to the video, garnering over 890,000 views in two months (shown below, left). On June 6th, TiKToker[4] @therealmrq posted a reaction to a now-deleted reaction to the video, garnering over 50,000 views in a month (shown below, right).
@potheadmelly #stitch with @The Sun King β¬ original sound β Melya
@therealmrq #duet with @The Sun King ππ€£! #fyp #comedy #reaction β¬ original sound β The Sun King
On July 9th, TikToker[5] @fohunna69 posted a duet to a re-upload of the video where he dances in the same way as Andie, garnering over 100,000 views in three weeks (shown below).
@fohunna69 #duet with @cheesecake #fyp β¬ original sound β cheesecake
On July 24th, TikToker[6] @luv_cheeds posted a parody of the video, garnering over 1.4 million views in three days (shown below, left). On July 26th, TikToker[7] @alpha.pookie posted a video parodying the original, garnering over 1.9 million views in a day (shown below, right).
@luv_cheeds Im sorry yall#fyp#viral#black#girl#confidence#bop#cringe β¬ Put Your Records On β Corinne Bailey Rae
@alpha.pookie andβ¦ im here for it π©πΏβ¨
That day, TikToker[8] @_so.you.dont.have.to posted a video showing @alpha.pookie's video side-by-side with the original, garnering over 3.6 million views in a day (shown below).
@_so.you.dont.have.to original "this song is such a little black girl confidence bop" vid :) // vc: alpha.pookie cutefrilled // y'all I think I almost accidently made a loop #foryou #original β¬ original sound β so you don't have to :)
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@omg.randi #stitch with @The Sun King β¬ original sound β RanRan
@alpha.pookie White boy anthem π«‘
@alpha.pookie Tell me im not wrong π
@sarahjohnston46 Honestly wtf does that mean jaden
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[1] TikTok β realistichuman
[2] TikTok β cutefrilled
[3] TikTok β potheadmelly
[4] TikTok β therealmrq
[6] TikTok β luv_cheeds
[7] TikTok β alpha.pookie
[8] TikTok β _so.you.dont.have.to
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