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Frat Flick is a slang phrase used to refer to a low-effort dance move supposedly common among fraternity members and college-aged boys at parties. The move involves bobbing one's head and raising one's hand to "flick" it outward in sync with the music. The term originally became popularized on TikTok in late 2023 and has since seen a resurgence every September toward the start of the college school year. Memes and jokes about the "frat flick" typically involve people recording men doing the move at parties or people joking about practicing and "perfecting" their frat flick to prepare for a frat party. The meme is similar to and also linked with other frat-themed memes like Get Sendy.

Origin

The "frat flick" is a dance move often attributed to American college fraternities in which young men at college parties are shown to be dancing to the music by standing relatively still, bobbing their heads and "flicking" their outstretched hands.

Videos of frat boys doing the dance move first began gaining viral traction in late 2023, with one notable viral video being posted by TikToker^[1] @makenna.eoff, who gathered over 1 million views on her video before going private.

The clip was reposted by TikTok^[2] @upandupfestival on November 4th, 2023, gathering over 100,000 likes in two years.

Also on November 4th, 2023, TikToker^[3] @animalcracker.com posted a video of people at a college party doing the "frat flick," gathering over 3.5 million views and 400,000 likes in two years.

Spread

On September 8th, 2024, TikToker^[4] @oliviyuhhhhhhhhh posted a video of people doing the "frat flick" at a college party, gathering over 7 million views and 600,000 likes on a post captioned, "It's an epidemic."

Videos of people doing the "frat flick" continued to gain traction in fall of 2025, as seen in an April 11th, 2025, video by TikToker^[7] @zoeebarriault captioned, "throwback to when I saw this guy frat flicking to Chappell Roan," gathering over 3 million views and 600,000 likes in five months.

On August 19th, 2025, TikToker^[5] @ashleykjonees posted a video that read, "the frat flick of the century," showing a boy doing an aggressive-looking raised-hand wrist flick at a college party. The video gathered over 2.9 million views and 500,000 likes in three weeks.

On August 20th, TikToker^[6] @trisnmycup posted a clip captioned, "Different types of frat flicks," showing variations of the dance like the "underhand" flick and the "limp wrist" flick. The video gathered over 1 million views and 120,000 likes in two weeks.

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