About

Normal People Versus Psychopaths is a series of TikTok skits in which people act out the normal way of doing something versus the "psychopathic" way of doing something to a sound clip of Daniel Pemberton's 2018 composition "The Prowler"^[1] made for the film Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse. The videos, which became popular in March 2020, typically portray the psychopaths as being very calculated and unafraid.

Origin

On March 3rd, 2020, TikToker @yungwesty uploaded a video using the sound clip in which he acts out normal people picking up their phone versus psychopaths picking up their phone (shown below). The video gained over 2.1 million likes in a week.

Spread

On March 5th, 2020, TikToker @alextherealtor uploaded a variation in which they plug in a chord (shown below, left). The video accumulated over 2.8 million likes in five days. The next day, TikToker @nick_adamski uploaded an iteration involving overfilling a glass of water which received over 1.8 million likes in four days. On March 7th, @iamtherealkyle garnered over 1.8 million likes in two days with their variation (shown below, right).

Various Examples

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