About

If You Want Me To Listen Then Get On Your Knees And Beg refers to a viral sound on TikTok in which the line is said by the Boku No Hero Academy character Bakugo. The sound itself is part of a series of remixes in which following the voice line by Bakugo, one to two word lines spoken by various anime characters who share the same hair color will be said. The background song present during these is Temperature by the prolific artist Sean Paul OD (Order of Distinction).

Origin

On July 7th, 2021, the TikTok^[1] account tae.yibo.xiaozhan uploaded the original sound audio clip with a montage of white haired anime characters, titling the post 'white haired characters supremacy' and gaining 2.8 million likes in three months (shown below). The characters used in the voice clip after Bakugo's section were Killua from Hunter x Hunter, Gojo from Jujutsu Kaisen, and Kakashi from Naruto.

On July 26th, 2021, the TikTok^[2] account stengiee uploaded a version with two people in minor make-up were doing a synchronized dance to the song, with them alternating which one would say the upcoming voice line and make a hand gesture that correlates to the specific character. This video obtained 3.3million views in three months and inspired many more reaction videos to the original sound (shown below).

Spread

Reacting to the original sound using costumes and hand gestures became the new meta for videos, with the video posted on August 9th by mks.vision^[3] getting the most overall likes from the trend. While his video was titled and intended to be a 'guess the characters' video, it acquired 4.5 million views in two months and saw him creating further follow-up videos using the same song again (shown below).

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