About

Dancing to Voicemails From My Ex is a series of TikTok videos in which people dance to a sound clip of their ex partner's voicemail. The videos became popular in October 2019 after several women's videos went viral on Twitter.

Origin

On October 13th, 2019, TikTok user @trapmoneybella posted a video with a caption that read "Day 1 of dancing to voicemails from my cheating ex boyfriend" (shown below). The video gained over 379,600 likes and 18,400 shares in five days.

Precursor

On September 28th, 2019, TikTok user @rayy.elizabeth posted a video with the caption "dancing to voicemails from my ex best friend day 1 LMAOO" (shown below). The video accumulated over 242,200 likes and 8,800 shares in 20 days.

Spread

On October 15th, 2019, TikTok user @tenleyearles posted a video in which she dances to a voicemail of her ex yelling at her for wearing leggings (shown below). The video gained over 623,000 likes and 24,700 shares in three days.

On October 16th Twitter user @freialobo reposted @trapmoneybella's TikTok video adding the caption "tiktok girls inspire me" (shown below). The tweet garnered over 38,800 likes and 5,000 retweets in two days.

The next day, Twitter user @dynamofire replied to the tweet by saying "Watched one of these where the girl dances to a recording of her abusive ex screaming at her because she wore leggings to school. Her next four videos were follow-ups advising other girls how to spot red flags. Truly awe-inspiring" (shown below). The tweet referred to @teneyearles's video and gained over 1,900 likes and 250 retweets in a day.

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