About

Little Squid Game Guard Dancing refers to an animation of a mini pink guard from Squid Game dancing to the song "pixxa" by underground rapper jaydes. The animation went viral on TikTok in January 2025. A meme trend evolved around the dancing guard as more animations were discovered and captions were added to them that joked about the dance being "so tuff" or using other intentionally bastardized AAVE slang terms like TS and PMO. The captions riffed on the language used to ironically admire Chopped Chin, akin to the slang term "glazing." The Little Squid Game Guard Dancing also built on the Druski Dancing memes.

Origin

On October 20th, 2021, TikToker^[1] @rlbooox shared an animation of a little pink guard from Squid Game doing the Chibi Dance, gaining over 8,600 likes in four years (shown below). The video was one of many animations featuring the little pink guard created by TikToker^[2][3][4] @rlbooox in 2021.

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Years later, on January 15th, 2025, TikToker^[5] @coolgameralphabeast13 reposted the abovementioned animation with the caption, "Boi this is so friggin tuff 🗿🍷," gaining over 235,500 likes in nine days (shown below). The video used the song "pixxa" by jaydes as the TikTok sound.^[6]

In the following days, others posted similar memes using the pink guard animations and the song "pixxa" by jaydes. For instance, on January 20th, TikToker^[7] @veinydihhhh shared an iteration, joking about the animation being "inspiring" and using the slang term "TS," gaining over 97,700 likes in four days (shown below).

On January 21st, 2025, TikToker^[8] @nender shared an iteration in which the text was Egyptian hieroglyphics like the Curse of the Nile copypasta, receiving over 10,900 likes in three days (shown below).

On January 22nd, TikToker^[9] @onnetish02 shared a mock powerscaling edit of the guard dancing, reminiscent of the Locked In Alien meme. The video gained over 28,900 likes in two days (shown below).

On January 22nd, Twitter / X ^[10] user @YMWyungbug tweeted an Instagram story from a user named @havingfunandbeingawesome that showed a TikTok account with multiple Little Squid Game Guard Dancing memes and text overlay reading, "This can't be your legacy nigga," gaining over 16,000 likes in two days (shown below).

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