About

Rapping to Pets is a series of TikTok videos in which users lip sync Killumantii's^[1] "Rules" rap to their pets. The trend became popular in October 2019, two years after the social media rapping star Killumantii uploaded the official audio for "Rules."

Origin

On August 3rd, 2017, Killumantii uploaded "Rules (Official Audio)" to YouTube which has received over 680,700 views and 22,000 likes in two years (shown below).

On October 1st, 2019, TikTok user @kananih uploaded a video in which she lip syncs the rap next to her dog (shown below). The video gained over 97,000 likes and 4,400 shares in 10 days.

Spread

On October 3rd, 2019, TikTok user @creditcardfraud uploaded a similar video in which he raps to his cat who then licks his face (shown below, left). The video garnered over 303,000 likes and 11,600 shares in eight days. That same day, @angel_campa uploaded a video in which he raps "Rules" to his small dog (shown below, center). The video accumulated over 330,300 likes and 46,200 shares in eight days. On October 5th, @killumanti participated in a lip sync to acknowledge the trend and received over 200,800 likes and 1,800 shares for her video (shown below, right).

On October 10th, Twitter user KalhanR acknowledged the TikTok rapping to pets trend as a favorite and started a trend sharing some examples (shown below).

Various Examples

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