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Lady Gaga Saying "100 People In a Room" refers to memes and jokes that center around video clips of pop star Lady Gaga talking about how "100 people could be in a room, and 99 don't believe in you, but just one person can change everything." Gaga often used the line to describe actor Bradley Cooper's support for her while filming A Star is Born in 2018. Video clips of Gaga saying her catchphrase to describe during interviews, award shows and press events gained traction on Twitter in 2018 and again on TikTok in late 2025, often paired with memes like Michelle Yeoh's 'MM, flip it around, Wicked Witch' line in TikTok's FlopTok community.

Origin

Singer Lady Gaga began saying her "100 people in a room" line while promoting her film A Star Is Born with co-star Bradley Cooper in 2018, as seen in an August 31st, 2018, interview with the Hollywood Reporter that gathered over 8,000 likes on Twitter^[1] in seven years.

.@LadyGaga on #AStarIsBorn director, Bradley Cooper: "I always wanted to be an actress, and there can be 100 people in the room and 99 don't believe in you. You just need one to believe in you, and that was him." https://t.co/LhBz2oQcyU pic.twitter.com/FMVFD2Fs5i

— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) August 31, 2018

Gaga repeated the line in a September 28th, 2018, interview on The Graham Norton Show, a YouTube^[2] upload for which gathered over 2 million views in seven years.

On October 8th, 2018, YouTuber^[3] The Fab Teacher posted a video titled, "Lady Gaga saying 'there can be a hundred people in the room' for one minute straight," compiling a number of clips in which Gaga delivers her "100 people in a room line," gathering over 1 million views in seven years.

On October 25th, 2018, The Sun^[4] published an article titled, "GAGA OVER BRAD: Lady Gaga uses exactly the same phrase ELEVEN times about Bradley Cooper – and it’s hilarious."

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On November 17th, 2018, X^[5] user @KingCryBabyx tweeted, "LGBT stands for Lady Gaga Believes That there could be a 100 people in a room, with 99 who don’t believe in you and just one who does." The post gathered over 84,000 likes in seven years.

On March 13th, 2020, X^[6] user @SteffanBassett tweeted, "Lady Gaga: there could be 100 people in a room / CDC: not so fast sweetie." The post gathered over 43,000 likes in five years.

On March 24th, 2022, TikToker^[7] @coreyjbradford posted a video recreating Gaga's "100 people in a room" line, gathering over 3 million plays and 300,000 likes in three years.

On November 26th, 2025, TikToker^[8] @chronically_onlineee_ posted another compilation of Gaga talking about a "100 people in a room," gathering over 500,000 plays and 50,000 likes in two weeks.

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