He Has No Lips! How Will He Get A Kiss Kiss?

About

He Has No Lips! How Will He Get A Kiss Kiss? is a catchphrase used in a popular TikTok sound clip that went viral on the platform in late June 2020. The sound stems from two previous TikTok trends, one which features a lip reveal and one ironic trend that uses berating text. Since the sound was first made by TikToker thereal_tati in late June, many lipsync and dance videos have used it.

Origin

On June 21st, 2020, TikToker thereal_tati uploaded a duet with polo.boyy which gained over 3.4 million likes in a month. In the video thereal_tati reads of the text in polo.boyy's video saying, "He has no lips. How will he get a kiss kiss? Very ugly. No kiss for him. Oh my god so handsome."

Precursor

In May 2020, TikTokers began hiding and then showing off their lips using the "pucker up" filter. On May 9th, madularr uploaded an example that garnered over 70,200 likes in two months (shown below, left). In June, TikTokers began ironically berating themselves for various attributes or belongings. On June 15th, TikToker Glaf uploaded an example in which they make negative remarks for only having one dollar (shown below, right). The video, which features the song "Ego" by Willy William^[2] accumulated over 1.2 million likes in a month.

Spread

On June 27th, 2020, TikToker bebopbo uploaded a new dance to accompany the sound which received 291,900 likes in three weeks (shown below, left). That same day, TikToker pegging uploaded a video of a cat's face set to the sound (shown below, center). The video acquired over 324,900 likes in three weeks. On July 2nd, TikToker Charlesmallet uploaded a lipsync video that garnered over 1.2 million likes in 15 days (shown below, right). StayHipp^[1] published an article on the trend.

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