About

The "No One Cared Who I Was Until I Put On The Mask" Trend is a lip dub trend on TikTok where users wear a pair of women's underwear on their face, sometimes overtop of a bra situated over their eyes like a mask while an audio clip of Bane from The Dark Knight Rises saying, "No one cared who I was 'til I put on the mask" plays. The trend began as early as April 2023 and became popularized throughout July and August of that year.

Origin

It is unclear who first started the "put on the mask" trend on TikTok. One of the earliest known examples of the trend was posted by TikToker^[1] @marquiswilliams133 on April 9th, 2023, where he lip dubs to a line of dialogue spoken by Bane in The Dark Knight Rises while wearing multiple pairs of women's underwear on his face like a mask, garnering over 3.8 million views in four months (shown below).

Spread

The trend spread over the following months, seeing a significant boost in popularity in late July 2023. On July 27th, 2023, TikToker^[2] @michaxl.ax posted a video following the trend with a bra also on his face, garnering over 7.7 million views in a month (shown below, left). On August 6th, TikToker^[3] @smackmycupcake posted a video following the trend that gained over 27 million views in three weeks (shown below, right).

On August 19th, TikToker^[4] @.shakoree. posted a video following the trend that gained over 2 million views in a week (shown below).

Various Examples

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