About

Dawg Skull Emoji or Dawg💀 refers to a viral video of TikToker @kinggwilliamss (King Williams) pushing back their hair and licking their lips flirtatiously while staring into the camera. In December 2021, a TikToker reuploaded and captioned the video with a joke about flirting with a cashier to get them to lower the price of their item, writing in the post caption "Dawg💀," implying @kinggwilliamss is not attractive enough to flirt their way out of paying full price. The video started to see use as an exploitable image macro in the following weeks, with TikTokers applying new captions to the same video and other flirtatious videos of @kinggwilliamss, often jokes about trying to inappropriately flirt your way out of something. The trend is set to the song "The New Workout Plan" by Kanye West.

Origin

Sometime prior to December 26th, 2021, TikToker @kinggwilliamss posted a video where they push their hair back with their hands on their head while licking their lips and staring at the camera. The original video appears to have been deleted. On December 26th, TikToker^[1] @uservrm7nbolta posted a cropped version of the video with a backing track and additional on-screen text, writing, "'Cashier: that'll be 4.99,' Me:'" as if Williams is flirting to try and lower the price, gaining over 5 million views in a week (shown below). The upload is captioned "Dawg💀," using the skull Emoji to denote laughter, making fun of Williams for trying to be flirty.

Spread

On December 27th, 2021, Instagram^[3] page memixes posted the meme, gaining over 75,000 views and 12,000 likes in a week. Over the following days, TikTokers started using the original sound^[2] for the video, titled "Dawg Skull Emoji," to make jokes in the same vein as the original using @kinggwilliamss content as the source, often with absurd variations of the phrase "Dawg💀" or "dawg skull emoji" in the captions or comments. On December 28th, TikToker^[4] @mattisagiantsfan posted a version of the video with a caption implying Williams is flirting with a doctor to get their autism diagnoses lowered, gaining over 13 million views in a week (shown below).

@kinggwilliamss started playing into the meme around December 28th, posting their own videos with similar captions on their primary and secondary TikTok^[5][6] account @kinggwilliamss.2 (examples shown below, left and right).

On December 28th, 2021, TikToker @erick_lolol posted an edit of one of Williams' videos as if flirting with a cop to get out of a ticket, gaining over 3.3 million views in a week (shown below, left). On December 29th, TikToker @ackboi posted an original digital art piece of the original meme, gaining over 2.8 million views in the same rough span of time (shown below, right).

Many of the comments under meme following the trend ask what the trend memes, as well as offer up absurdly written versions of the phrase "Dawg💀," including phrases like "Dawg💀 (dog, considered slang word by urban dictionary in which dawg means buddy, man, dude) (skull emoji on iOS phones created by apple)," "Bro💀(male homosapian specimen born of the same parental beings) (semi-correct anatomical representation of the human cranial structure)" and "Bro 💀(brother) ((human skull emoticon))."

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