Bread 👍
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About
Bread 👍, also known as Bread *Thumbs Up*, refers to a viral TikTok video, Duet chain and spam comment trend started from a TikTok posted in early 2021. The video and screen recordings of the entire Duet thread received attention across platforms going into 2021, however, "Bread 👍" as a comment section spam was popularized most notably on Reddit in September 2021.
Origin
On March 15th, 2021, TikToker[1] @emergencybread uploaded a video where he cuts a piece of dough with a blade, causing it to split down the middle. He ends the video by saying "bread" and giving a thumbs up. The video (shown below, left) received roughly 6.6 million plays and 1 million likes over the course of eight months. Two days later, on March 17th, 2021, TikToker @bigboy76_ posted a Duet with the video saying "bread" at the same time and giving a thumbs up. @bigboy76_'s TikTok has since been deleted, but it can be viewed in the next TikTok that added to the trend, posted by TikToker[2] @depresstonnn on March 18th, 2021. His TikTok (shown below, right) received roughly 2.4 million plays and 369,800 likes over the course of eight months.
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6939918877451144454
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6941212483386477829
Spread
Going into the rest of March 2021, TikTokers[3] continued to add onto the Duets, each saying "bread" and giving a thumbs up. A video editing together all of the TikToks was posted to YouTube [4] by account MemeGuyAJ on March 29th, 2021. The video (shown below) received roughly 218,100 views and 10,000 likes over the course of seven months.
"Bread 👍" became a copypasta starting most notably in TikTok comments of the original Duets (shown below, left). However, the use of "bread 👍" as comment section spam was popularized further on Reddit in September 2021. This came about when Redditor[5] nasdarovije posted a screenshot of a chat section in Roblox's offshoot hangout game "Public Bathroom Simulator" to the subreddit /r/GoCommitDie on September 5th, 2021. The image (shown below, right) received roughly 3,700 likes over the course of two months.
Redditors began to spam "bread 👍" in the comment section of nasdarovije's post. Screenshots of the spam comments were reposted to other subreddits like /r/shitposting[6] and /r/YuB.[7] A post to /r/YuB was uploaded by Redditor[7] PeacefulSoySauce on September 5th, 2021, and received roughly 1,200 likes over the course of two months (shown below).
More "Bread 👍" related memes began appearing across Reddit going into the rest of September 2021 and into October. In subreddits like /r/EmKay[8] and /r/Wilbur,[9] more and more "Bread 👍" memes and comment section screenshots were posted. Additionally, memes[10] began to appear in late October 2021 relating the "Bread 👍" trend to other comment section spam trends like I Forgor 💀 and the Moyai Emoji, among others.
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External References
[1] TikTok – @emergencybread
[2] TikTok – @depresstonnn
[3] TikTok – @unclerodney_
[5] Reddit – r/GoCommitDie
[6] Reddit – r/shitposting
fn9 Reddit – r/Wilbur
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Nov 08, 2021 at 03:24PM EST