About

Fiona, Is That A Ghost Behind You? refers to a viral video of a woman during a TikTok Live with a TikTok medium, who mistakes the woman's daughter for a ghost, saying, "Fiona, is that a ghost behind you?" The original video was posted in mid-October 2024 by an unknown follower of the medium James Bucknell, spawning a TikTok meme and trend resembling the Mama a Girl Behind You meme in which users reenacted the video or used its sound in skits. The meme also sparked remixes and a copypasta format in which TikTok users added a purple heart emoji along the phrase, matching the Donatella VERSACE 💜 and What I Do 💜 FlopTok meme formats.

Origin

On October 16th, 2024, TikTok^[1] user @midnightjamesbucknell did a livestream medium session with a woman, whose daughter was watching silently in the background in a bright light resembling a ghost, as Bucknell stated, "Fiona, is that a ghost behind you?" The video was deleted from TikTok and reposted on the medium's official YouTube^[2] channel (seen below), which received roughly 670 views and 30 likes in a week.

- Fiona, can you hear me? Is that a spirit in the background? FIONA!? IS THAT A GHOST BEHIND YOU?
- No it's my daughter.
- IT BLOODY LOOKS LIKE ONE. OH MY GOD.

Spread

In the following days of the livestream, the video was reposted en masse on TikTok, gaining remixes and parody videos. For example, on October 16th, 2024, TikTok^[3] user @bennjones_ edited the viral video with Charli XCX's "Girl, So Confusing" music (seen below), captioning it, "Ghost so confusing." The video amassed more than 2.2 million plays and 244,000 likes in a week.

On October 26th, 2024, TikTok^[4] user @amdthegreatestshows posted a video recreating the viral clip as a Halloween costume (seen below), receiving roughly 1,800 plays and 80 likes in a day.

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