About

Flight Takes A Smoke Break Mid Video refers to a TikTok trend featuring Twitch streamer Flight, a.k.a. FlightReacts. In April 2024, a video of the streamer's expression changing from worried to serene via a sharp jumpcut became the template for an exploitable video meme on TikTok, with the word "smoke" being traded for other words and phrases. Some examples of this trend are "Flight takes a cute break mid video" or "Flight takes a freaky break mid video."

Origin

A clip of Flight reacting to a TikTok^[1] video while dressed in a black hoodie was posted to YouTube by JB dubz on June 13th, 2022, where it gathered over 95,000 views in two years (seen below).

Spread

The clip was reposted to TikTok by @ftcszn^[2] on January 23rd, 2023, where it gathered over 100,000 plays and 10,000 likes in roughly a year, and by TikToker^[3] @greasygroves3 on April 6th, 2024, who gathered over 6 million plays and 1.2 million likes in five days (seen below).

On April 7th, 2024, X^[8] user @blephin_ posted a version of the meme that read, "did flight just smoke some crazy shit mid video?" The post gathered over 8,000 likes in four days (seen below).

On April 8th, TikToker^[4] @beanoilsalesman posted a version of the meme that read, "Flight takes a poetry break mid video, gathering over 100,000 plays and 27,000 likes in three days (seen below, left). On April 9th, TikToker^[5] @drainyouout posted an edit of the clip, now reading, "Flight takes a spice break mid video." The post gathered over 200,000 plays and 60,000 likes in two days (seen below, right).

On April 10th, 2024, TikToker^[6] @namename_alt posted an edit that read, "Flight takes a heavenly break mid video," gathering over 490,000 plays and 140,000 likes in a day (seen below, left).

Also on April 10th, TikToker^[7] @anteateremc posted a version of the meme that read, "Flight takes a Pirate break mid video," gathering over 60,000 plays and 10,000 likes in a day (seen below, right).

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