About

Hand Switch Challenge refers to a series of TikTok videos in which users perform a hand dance trick which creates the illusion of one hand passing through the other. The TikTok videos which typically use the sound clip "Bounce (Explicit)- SLOWMOKING" began trending on TikTok in November 2019.

Origin

On November 18th, 2019, @fran.iraola uploaded a video in which she performs the hand switch to the sound clip "Bounce(Explicit)- SLOWMOKING" and accumulated over 949,100 likes and 56,700 shares in eight days (shown below).

Spread

On November 21st, many TikTokkers uploaded videos of themselves trying out the hand switch challenge. TikTok user @skyandtami and @maximorivano gained over 521,000 and 89,400 likes respectively in five days (shown below).

That same day, Twitter user @ToriPareno shared her TikTok video to Twitter with the caption "here’s something trippy for your night lol" (shown below). The tweet received over 532,200 likes and 175,500 retweets in five days.

Various Examples

Search Interest