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But You Didn't Have To Cut Me Off TikTok Trend refers to a TikTok trend that grew popular in late October 2024, typically used by creators to show off their Halloween costumes, set to the song Somebody That I Used To Know by Gotye. The trend starts with two people posing and then taking turns to dance through each line of the chorus of the song. By October 31st, 2024, the trend had gathered over 40,000 videos on the platform.

Origin

Dance company "CDK" posted a choreography to the 2011 song "Somebody That I Used To Know" to TikTok^[1] on February 28th, 2024, gathering over 10 million plays and 1 million likes in ten months. Over the course of 2024, the sound from the upload came to be used to make humorous dance videos where people took turns to dance awkwardly to the chorus of the song.

TikToker^[2] @ftspj posted one of the earliest known videos participating in the trend, gathering over 3 million views and 600,000 likes on a video posted on August 4th, 2024.

Spread

TikToker^[3] @moanabih posted a video participating in the trend on September 28th, 2024, in a video that gathered over 2.8 million views and 400,000 likes in a month.

By October 2024, several internet users were using the trend to show off their Halloween costumes, as seen in a October 22nd video uploaded by @twistedpennywise^[4] who gathered over 3 million plays and 400,000 likes on a video posted on October 22nd, 2024.

On October 28th, TikToker^[5] @_cjkilla_ posted a video showing him and his friend dressed as characters from White Chicks. The video gathered over 5 million plays and 1.5 million likes in three days.

Also on October 28th, TikToker^[6] @iknowuwantthischurro gathered over 3 million plays and 900,000 likes in three days.

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