About

Piercing Challenge refers to a series of TikTok videos in which users close their eyes while clicking through the piercings filter in the application until a certain point of a song and which ever piercing they land on they actually get pierced. The videos which uses a remix of the songs Rex Orange County's "Loving is Easy" and Sage The Gemini's "No X's" became popular in October 2019.

Origin

On October 6th, 2019, TikTok user @thejamieread uploaded a video in which she explained that she would get what ever piercing she landed on. She tapped through the piercing filter with her eyes closed until she landed on a bridge piercing. She then showed later what appeared to be a bridge piercing (shown below). The video garnered over 663,600 likes and 8,400 shares in a month and implemented a remix of Rex Orange County's^[1] "Loving is Easy" and Sage The Gemini's^[2] "No X's."

Spread

On October 8th, 2019, @caleb.finn uploaded their own piercing challenge video in which he obtains a nose ring (shown below, left). The video garnered over 1.2 million likes and 7,700 shares in a month. That same day, TikTok user @traplordmeaghan uploaded a video in which she got the piercing she landed on and gained over 547,500 likes and 2,400 shares in a month (shown below, center). On October 11th, @sarvani_eloheimo garnered over 598,500 likes and 3,300 shares in a month for completing the challenge (shown below, right).

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