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About

This is a participatory meme created by TikTok user @3.points on February 23rd, 2020. @3.point used the song "Go Stupid" by Polo G featuring Stunna 4 Vegas & NLE Choppa ^[1] as the sound for this meme. "Go Stupid" was released on February 14th, 2020 as a single produced by Mike WiLL Made-It and Tay Keith.To participate in this meme, you have to describe an action or scenario by utilizing text and jumpcut editing. Jumpcut editing is a film technique that showcases a skip in time. As a result, the subject is filmed doing the same pose at different camera angles, or the camera can stay stationary while the subject moves. ^[2] However, in this meme, the subject is "stationary," and the camera angles are switching with each beat of the song. The topic the user chooses to highlight in their meme can be anything they wish. @3.point's text/theme showcased "The most dangerous fighting stances I've seen in my lifetime" while others topics have included "When you show you show ur mom a meme" or "The scariest poses a student can see." Since this meme can apply to such a broad spectrum of ideas, it has gained significant traction. In the four days since posting, there have been 47.5k remake videos.

Origin

On February 23rd, 2020, TikTok user @3.points posted a TikTok showcasing "The most dangerous fighting stances seen in my lifetime" to the song "Go Stupid" by Polo G featuring Stunna 4 Vegas & NLE Choppa. This TikTok has gained 8.8 million views and 1.6 million likes since it has been posted. Also, 47.5k videos parodies have been posted using @3.point original idea.

Precursor

Jumpcut editing has been used in productions for many years. For example, music videos, movies, commercials, and almost all types of visual media consumed incorporates some type of jumpcuts in their piece.

Spread

All parodies of this meme have are posted on TikTok. On February 24th, 2020, TikTok user @anelise.silva posted a remake describing "The faces before your gf goes psycho"^[3] to her audience of 488.5k followers. She has gathered 3.9 million views on the TikTok alone. The TikTok has currently gained 841.8k likes. On February 25th, 2020, TikTok user @njergle posted a remake describing "When you show ur mom a meme"^[4] to his audience of 49k followers. He has since gathered 4.1 million views and 966.1k likes on the video. Also, on February 25th, 2020, TikTok user @_bwandon_ posted a parody describing different "Ways to cheat on a test."^[5] Since uploading the TikTok has gained 3.3 million views as well as 844.7k likes.