About

Lonely Chair refers to a series of TikTok videos in which TikTokers use a green screen effect to sit in small chairs they make out of everyday items. The trend, which gained popularity in March 2020, typically used a sound clip of TikToker @eyeamki singing "Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears.

Origin

On March 28th, 2020, TikToker @sweatmoustache uploaded a video in which she creates a chair out of a Baby Belle cheese casing and sits in it using a green screen effect. The video, which uses the sound clip "hit me baby one more time by ki – eyeamki"^[1] garnered over 279,000 likes in 10 days.

Spread

On March 28th, 2020, TikToker @7qwehsg2.7rehshh_djrjiw uploaded a video in which he sits in a tide pod chair (shown below, left). The video gained over 139,100 likes in 10 days. The next day, TikToker @harrisonfraser uploaded a variation using a chair made of Starbursts and received over 29,900 likes in nine days. On March 30th, TikToker @maddie.kirby uploaded a variation which accumulated over 14,300 likes in a week (shown below, right).

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