Is This Available?

About

Is This Available? is to a TikTok Internet Drama Video by TikToker @lubalin. The video, which features a prank from one Facebook marketplace user to another, inspired a series of recreations that the dialogue from the prank to express other frustrating arguments people have with others in their life.

Origin

On December 22nd, 2020, TikToker @lubalin posted the song "Internet Drama Pt. 1." The video shows a musical reading of a conversation between two Facebook marketplace users, regarding the rental of a two-bedroom apartment. The sender of the message, after beginning the conversation, suddenly asks the recipient to not contact them again, as if the recipient began the exchange. The post received more than 27.9 million views, 5.4 million reactions and 93,000 comments in less than one month.

Spread

Over the next month, people began sharing the video and creating their own content set to the song performed by @lubalin. For example, on January 5th, 2021, TikToker @brendenandellie shared a video about letting his dog on the couch set to @lubalin's song. The post received more than 4.4 million views, 808,000 reactions and 3,400 comments in less than two weeks (shown below, left).

Days later, TikToker @jeenie.weenie shared a version of the trend that featured @jeenie.weenie pranking their brother with the dialogue from the @lubalin video. The post received more than 4.7 million views, 1.2 million comments and 5,600 comments in less than 24 hours (shown below, right).

As of January 13th, 2021, the @lubalin original sound on TIkTok has more than 15,000 views.^[1]

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