About

I'm Getting Ripped Tonight, RIP That Pussy, Ayy, followed by I'm Going In Tonight, is a line from the song "Dick" by Starboi3 and Doja Cat associated with a dance trend that became popular on TikTok in March 2021. The dance starts by flexing at the camera as the lyrics "I'm getting ripped tonight" are sung, followed by a series of wrist movements. The song began spreading to social media outside TikTok around May, resulting in various image macros referencing its catchiness and significant discussion on Twitter.

Origin

On March 5th, 2021, TikToker^[1] @ali.scyn posted a video performing an original dance to the song "Dick" by Starboi3 and Doja Cat in which she flexes to the camera, sways, then does a series of spinning wrist motions. The sound has since been removed from the video, which gained over 600,000 views in two months. The next day she posted another video doing the dance to a new original sound, gaining over 58,000 views in a comparable span of time (shown below).

Ali.scyn performed the dance a number of times over the course of the month (examples shown below) attempting to get it viral and encouraging others to do it on their TikTok pages. She also encouraged people to get Charli D'amelio to perform the dance.

Spread

"RIP That Pussy Ayy" Dance Trend

The dance quickly spread across TikTok that month, with some of the biggest influencers on the platform performing it in the months to come. Within two months, the original sound was used in over 929,000 videos on TikTok, many of the top examples performing the dance.

On March 23rd, TikToker^[2] Charli D'amelio performed the dance, garnering over 65 million views in two months, although the video is no longer available with sound on TikTok (shown below, reuploaded to YouTube). This helped spread the trend greatly.

The trend remained popular throughout April, resulting in a number of viral videos. For example, on April 1st, TikTokers @gabimfmoura posted a video performing the dance, garnering over 31 million views in a month (shown below, left). On April 27th, TikToker @katiessigmond performed the dance, garnering over 19 million views in under a month (shown below, right).

TikTokers continued to perform the dance throughout May 2021.

Outside TikTok

On April 27th, Instagram^[3] user @ruebennettschildx posted an image macro featuring the lyrics "RIP THAT PUSSY EYYY" implying the song is stuck in their head (shown below). The image was reposted by Instagram^[4] user @emipostedthat the next day, garnering over 4,000 likes in a month.

On May 4th, Twitter^[8] user @emxlyyyy_xo posted, "i'm gettin ripped tonight ʳᶦᵖ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ᵖᵘˢˢʸ," garnering over 16,000 likes and 1,100 retweets in two weeks.

Over the course of the month, Twitter^[6][7] users continued posting about how catchy the song is, admitting to using the phrase "RIP that pussy ayy" in their everyday lives (examples shown below, left and right).

On May 18th, Instagram^[5] user @hxh_ posted a photo captioned, "what happens when you take lyrics literally…" featuring the lyrics over Hunter X Hunter imagery, garnering over 20,900 likes in a day (shown below).

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