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Rick and Morty Musical.ly Videos refer to dubbed videos posted on the video-sharing social network Musical.ly, in which participants cosplay as various Rick and Morty characters while lip-syncing lines from the television show or pop songs. Online, the videos have been widely mocked as ill-conceived and cringeworthy.

Origin

In early 2017, users on the video-sharing social network Musical.ly began posting videos of themselves cosplaying as characters from Rick and Morty while lip-syncing dialogue from the show. On April 24th, 2017, YouTuber confused homestuck nerd posted a compilation of the cosplay videos. The video has since been deleted.

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On July 26th, YouTuber RubyRed Fire uploaded another montage of Rick and Morty Muscal.ly videos (shown below, left). On September 17th, YouTuber Slazo uploaded a video titled "Musical.ly is RUINING Rick and Morty," mocking the Musical.ly videos for being cringeworthy (shown below, right)

On September 22nd, 2017, YouTuber Dolan Darker posted an edited scene from Rick and Morty in which Morty views various Musical.ly videos before threatening to kill himself. Within five days, the video received more than 552,000 views and 1,400 comments.

On September 26th, 2017, YouTuber PewDiePie posted a video about videos titled "Stop Ruining Rick and Morty," which accused the Rick and Morty fanbase of being the worst on the internet while showcasing various Musical.ly videos (shown below, right). Within 24 hours, the video gained over 2.23 million views and 21,300 comments. That same day, YouTuber Pyrocynical uploaded a video titled "Rick and Morty VS Musical.ly," which referred to the cosplay videos as "an unspeakable evil" that "threatens to consume all of mankind" (shown below, right).

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