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Just Say It Out Loud To See How It Feels / Thought About Killing You TikToks refers to a trend on TikTok set to the original sound "Thought about killing you" by Regwad,^[1] which itself is a recording of a snippet from the song "I Thought About Killing You"^[2] by Kanye West. In the videos, TikTokers lip-sync as Kanye speaks through the original sound, "Just say it out loud to see how it feels. People say don't say this, don't say that, just say it out loud just to see how it feels. Weigh all the options, nothing's off the table." While the TikToker lip-syncs, an on-screen caption describes a fictional situation where one person (the TikToker) is trying to convince another unseen person to say something offensive or that they otherwise don't want to say.

Origin

On November15th, 2020, TikToker Regwad^[3] uploaded a video set to his own original sound titled "Thought about killing you" in which he lip-syncs the lyrics over a greenscreen presenting a stock image of a white person giving a thumbs up (shown below). An on-screen caption reads, "Me tryin to get my innocent white friend to say the nword:". The video gained over 110,000 views in 2 days.

Spread

On November 16th, 2020, TikToker snortingpoolchalk^[4] uploaded a video following Regwad's format, featuring the on-screen caption, "English teachers when you get to page 174 of To Kill a Mockingbird" (shown below, left). The video garnered over 253,000 views in 1 day and is the highest viewed video following the trend as of November 17th. On the same day, TikToker fatbellybenny^[5] uploaded a version of the trend with the on-screen caption, "me trying to not ask 'you smoke?' immediately after meeting someone" garnering over 77,000 views in the same span of time (shown below, right). This video features a smaller version of fatbellybenny standing on his shoulder and talking done via the TikTok editing tools, a tactic which is used in multiple videos following the trend.

As of November 17th, 154 videos have used the sound.

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