About

Joke Is On You is a series of TikTok videos exploiting the lyrics "the joke is on you" in the Niki Watkins song first featured on iCarly in 2010. In September 2019, TikTok users began using the song to illustrates instances when someone has been fooled.

Origin

On September 25th, 2010, The Nickelodeon show iCarly aired their episode "iGet Pranky" which features a musical montage using the song " Joke Is On You" by Niki Watkins (shown below). The lyrics read: "So everybody put your hands in the air/ It’s an all night party that we’re getting into/ If you think it’s all over then the joke is on you."

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On September 21st, 2019, TikTok user @imshooketh used the Watkins song in a video to illustrate being fooled by the promise of colder weather (shown below, left). The video gained over 32,200 likes and 1,000 shares in nine days. On September 25th, TikTokkers @teddythedyslexic and @carrotlmao uploaded variations which garnered over 206,600 likes and 51,200 likes respectively in five days (shown below, right).

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