About

On My Way To / Where Is The Love TikTok Trend refers to a dance trend on TikTok set to the song "Where Is The Love" by The Black Eyed Peas.^[1] Videos following the trend feature an on-screen caption that starts with a variation of the phrase "Me on my way to" followed by a description of what they're moving toward. For example, "Me on my way to hide my online purchases from my husband."^[2] Underneath the caption, the user performs a dance where they hop forward to the beat of the opening string section of "Where Is The Love," as if confidently heading to the described situation or location. The trend is similar to On My Way to Steal Yo Girl memes.

Origin

On October 13th, 2020, TikToker shelbie.welbie uploaded a video set to the opening strings section of "Where Is The Love" featuring the on-screen caption, "Me on my way to go annoy my man" (shown below). In the video she performs a series of rhythmic hops forward matching the beat of the song. The video gained over 191,000 views and 9,500 likes in 2 weeks.

Spread

On October 22nd, 2020, TikToker haileymargaretw uploaded a video set to "Where Is The Love" featuring the on-screen caption, "Me on my way to go get starbucks after my husband and I just talked about budgeting." (Shown below, left.) In the video, she performs the same dance as shelbie.welbie. Her video gained over 756,000 views and 59,000 likes in 5 days, and helped popularize the trend. On October 24th, TikToker alexandramadison_ uploaded a video performing the dance, garnering over 2.9 million views in 3 days (shown below, right).

During the week of October 26th, the original Sound for "Where Is The Love" hit TikTok's trending page, significantly boosting the number of videos using the format. On October 26th, TikToker Alicia Mccarvell uploaded a video performing the dance captioned, "Me on the way into the gym knowing damn well I'm going to spend the whole time bothering my husband." (Shown below, left.) The video garnered over 6 million views in a day. On the same day, Trent Williams uploaded a version of the trend, gaining over 5.5 million views in the same span of time (shown below, right).

As of October 27th, over 81,400 videos have used the original sound for "Where Is The Love?"^[3]

Various Examples

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