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I Used To Think About Death All The Time is a sound clip taken from a 2018 book review that was reposted to TikTok in July 2020 and acquired captioned lipsync videos. The audio features humorist Anne Rasheed talking about being afraid to die before reading Light In The Mourning: Memoirs Of An Undertaker’s Daughter by Margo Lenmark.

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On May 29th, 2018, Michael Valentino uploaded "Light in the Mourning Book Review by Anne Rasheed, Humorist" to YouTube^[2] receiving 960 views in two years. In the video, Anne Rasheed starts the review by saying, "I used to think about death all the time." On July 21st, 2020, TikToker landongeorge6 reuploaded a clip of the review to TikTok and gained over 885,100 likes in two weeks (shown below).

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On July 23rd, 2020, TikToker daddydells uploaded the earliest known lipsync video using the audio and captioned it, "me telling my kids about how our generation was suicidal when we were younger" (shown below, left). The video received over 88,3000 likes in two weeks (shown below, left). On July 27th, TikToker itztymiller uploaded a video using the audio captioned, "when the teacher asks to write about our covid experience" and accumulated over 395,100 likes in 11 days (shown below, center). On August 2nd, TikToker onlinemaya uploaded a variation captioned, "another day of living with my parents and repeating the same exact day I've had since march" (shown below, right). The video gained over 297,100 likes in five days. StayHipp^[1] published an article on the origins of the trend.

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