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Nobody's Gonna Know refers to a TikTok trend set to an audio clip from the American television series Bad Girls Club. The audio clip contains a dialogue starting with the phrase, "Nobody's gonna know. Nobody's gonna know," to which a second person responds, "They're gonna know." The first speaker then responds, "How would they know?" Videos under the #GonnaKnow hashtag feature TikTokers performing obviously deceitful actions while lip-syncing to the clip, acting as if nobody will notice what they're doing.

Origin

On March 25th, 2020, TikToker cgleason22^[1] uploaded a video captioned, "me debating myself on whether or not i should make a fake account just to post comments on my videos" using the Gonna Know audio clip (shown below). Cglaeason22 is the original uploader of the audio clip. The video garnered over 1.7 million views and 202 thousand likes in six months.

Spread

On April 16th, 2020, TikToker seanghedi^[2] posted a Gonna Know video captioned, "me getting my septum pierced against my parents wishes." The video received over 496,000 views and 108,000 likes in five months. TikTokers continued to post videos using the sound clip, leading it to the trending page in September.

On September 13th, TikToker jakefresca^[3] uploaded a Shrek themed Gonna Know video captioned, "Fiona trying to hide that she becomes an ogre every night." The video gained 2.2 million views and 447,000 likes in four days. On September 17th, TikToker coracolerugs^[4] uploaded a Gonna Know video, garnering over 5.5 million views and 1.3 million likes in two days. As of September 17th, there were over 49.6 million views under the #gonnaknow hashtag and over 19.3 thousand videos using the audio clip.

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