Hi, I'm Dory. Let's Go!

About

Hi, I'm Dory. Let's Go! refers to a TikTok sound and dance based on Baby Dory from Finding Dory. Started on Roblox in 2021 within Brookhaven, players approached others in the game to say, "Hi, I'm Dory. Let's Go!" inspiring a song made out of the practice. In 2022, TikTokers used the song in their videos, lip dubbing the lyrics and performing the emote in real life. Specifically, a young, blonde boy became the central figure in the trend.

Origin

In October 2020, TikToker stellaurius posted a video (since deleted) that created the "Hi, I'm Dory!" sound. They're credited in the description of the earliest known reposting of the sound on October 8th, 2020, being a one hour loop posted by the YouTube channel ceo of noodles. Over the course of a year and a half, the video received roughly 70,900 views (shown below).

The sound borrows audio from the Pixar film Finding Dory as well as samples a piano cover of the song "Petit Biscuit" by Sunset Lover^[1] performed by YouTuber Foux^[2] on October 18th, 2016.

On March 16th, 2021, TikToker^[3] thefr0ggybaby posted a video that used stellaurius' sound and showed their Roblox character in Brookhaven walking up to another character and saying, "Hi I'm dori," only to then do a dancing emote. Over the course of 15 months, the video received roughly 6.1 million plays and 879,900 likes (shown below).

Spread

Going into the remainder of 2021, multiple TikTokers used the sound started by thefr0ggybaby. Many creators used their own Roblox characters to recreate the video. However, others made more nuanced recreations, like TikToker^[4] kiegkillsreality on April 1st, 2021, who used a VRChat version of Barack Obama in their video, earning roughly 5.2 million plays and 533,500 likes in 14 months (shown below, left). On April 2nd, 2021, TikToker^[5] its557am posted a video using the sound, earning roughly 5.3 million plays and 803,900 likes in the same amount of time (shown below, right).

Despite its usage in 2021, the sound received another spike in usage in June 2022 following multiple TikToks showing a young, blonde boy performing the Roblox trend in real life. On May 14th, 2022, TikToker^[6] elliottdayy posted a video of his blonde friend performing the Roblox dance via a Snapchat screen-recording, earning roughly 4.1 million plays and 607,400 likes in four weeks (shown below, left). Eliottdayy continued to post iterations of the video going into May 2022. On June 1st, 2022, TikToker^[7] r3illy.h also posted a video that showed the blonde boy performing the Roblox dance at a waterpark, earning roughly 12 million plays and 3 million likes in nine days (shown below, right).

Other TikTokers started to make edits of the blonde boy's dance. For instance, on June 6th, 2022, TikToker^[8] strxwmely posted an edit that earned roughly 962,300 plays and 88,200 likes in four days (shown below, left). Other TikTokers started recreating the boy's dance, some not knowing it originated from Brookhaven. An example of this would be a TikTok posted on June 4th, 2022, by TikToker^[9] _.danny.k._, earning roughly 3.7 million plays and 697,600 likes in six days (shown below, right).

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