About

I Like You, Have A Cupcake refers to a viral audio clip of Fish Hooks character Albert Glass giving two students cupcakes, saying, "I like you, have a cupcake," to each, then uncomfortably groaning at the third person and ignoring them, deeming them unliked and leaving them without a cupcake before giving a cupcake to a fourth character. The audio clip became popular on TikTok as an original sound in July 2021, used in lip-dub skits to showcase people or things a TikToker does and doesn't like. The sound inspired the Smack My Ass Like A Drum spinoff sound, consisting of a mashup of the original sound and the song "Vagina" by CupcakKe.

Origin

On January 29th, 2011, season 1, episode 18 of Disney's Fish Hooks aired,^[1] titled "Fishing for Compliments: The Albert Glass Story." In the episode, it is Glass' birthday, so he gives out cupcakes in class. Before giving a cupcake to each classmate, he says, "I like you, have a cupcake," however, when he gets to the character Bea, he floats over her, groaning uncomfortably the whole time. He gives another fish a cupcake after that (shown below).

On July 22nd, 2021, TikToker^[2] @chrisevanssonsgf posted a video of the clip with each character labeled as a different photo of Chris Evans, putting Chris Evans with a mustache in the place of Bea to show their distaste for that look of his, gaining over 8 million views in three weeks (shown below).

Spread

The original sound^[3] for the video went viral over the course of the next month, inspiring over 650,000 videos on the platform by August 11th, 2021. The two most popular videos using the sound as of that date were uploaded on July 29th by James Charles ^[4] and July 30th by TikToker^[5] @climbingwithb00bs, the former showing Charles reacting to his past looks that he likes and doesn't like, and the latter showing various rock climbing shapes the TikToker does and doesn't like, gaining over 14 million and 17 million views respectively in just under two weeks (shown below, left and right).

The sound remained popular into August. On August 2nd, TikToker^[6] @londonlaz posted a video using the sound to show his disliking of Home Alone 3, gaining over 5 million views in a week (shown below, left). On August 3rd, TikToker^[7] Bryce Hall used the sound to show regret for his "train track" phase, referring to his eyebrows, gaining over 6.7 million views in a comparable span of time (shown below, right).

Smack My Ass Like A Drum

On July 27th, 2021, TikToker^[8] @brhlthvr uploaded a video with on-screen text reading "why did I make this" and showcasing an original sound consisting of the "I like you have a cupcake" dialogue, but replacing the disgusted groan with a clip from the song "Vagina" by CupcakKe in which she sings "smack my ass like a drum." The video gained over 2.1 million views in a month (shown below).

The original sound became notably popular over the course of the next month, inspiring over 294,000 videos by August 31st. It is often used by TikTokers to comedically admit their lust for a fictional character. For example, on 28th, TikToker^[9] @missss.piggy used the sound over a video reacting to all the chipmunks from Alvin and the Chipmunks, gaining over 6.4 million views in a month (shown below, left). On July 30th, TikToker^[10] @hadzichkaa used the sound over a similar video about the Penguins of Madagascar characters, gaining over 13.1 million views in a month (shown below, right).

On August 27th, TikToker^[11] @mistermainer posted a video where their dog appears to be lip dubbing to the song, then twerks as the "smack my ass" line plays, gaining over 29.9 million views in four days (shown below).

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