If X Was A Sport / Lots Of Medals Guy

About

If X Was A Sport or Lots Of Medals Guy is a trend on TikTok where a video of a swimmer putting on all of his swimming medals at once is edited after a selfie captioned with the phrasal template, "If X was a sport," "X" being something that the user is good at. The medal video was uploaded to TikTok in February 2022 and the trend became popularized in June that year, often used alongside ironic or self-deprecating captions like, "If being jealous was a sport."

Origin

On February 8th, 2022, TikToker^[1] @swimmer62 posted a video of himself putting on all of his swimming medals at once, gaining over 13.3 million views in four months (shown below).

On June 1st, TIkToker^[2] @lucianopuorto4 posted a video where he shows himself under the caption, "if being jealous was a sport," followed by the medal clip, gaining over 400,000 views in a week (shown below).

Spread

The original sound for @lucianopuorto4's video on June 1st, 2022, went viral shortly after, inspiring over 20,000 videos in a week, the most prominent following the same format. On June 7th, TikToker^[3] @batb4tt posted a video replacing X with "pooping," gaining over 1.2 million views in two days (shown below, left). On June 8th, TikToker^[4] @tiannatrang_ posted a video replacing X with "laughing at serious situations," gaining over 2.7 million views in a day (shown below, right).On the same day, Twitter^[5] user @fabms_ posted screenshots of several of the TikTok uploads from the trend, writing, "weirdest fucking trend on tiktok rn," gaining over 1,000 likes in a day.

The trend also became mildly popular under another sound^[6] consisting of a sped-up version of "Keisha & Becky" by Russ Millions and Tion Wayne, gaining over 2,000 uses in a similar span of time (examples shown below).

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