About

The Satana Trend or Shoe Drift Trend is a Balkan TikTok trend in which a person purposely scuffs the floor with the heel of their shoe, leaving a black line on the floor. The trend, set to a remix of "Satana Eto Ona" by XATUBA, was popularized on TikTok in February 2024, inspiring numerous viral iterations and memes responding to the trend, in particular, reacting to how hard it is to clean the scuffs off the floor. The trend often takes place at school.

Origin

On February 22nd, 2024, TikToker^[1] @stafon71 posted a video set to a remix of "Satana Eto Ona" in which he deliberately scuffs the hardwood floor under a desk with his heel, garnering over 35.8 million views in two weeks (shown below, left). On February 24th, he uploaded a video to TikTok^[2] of himself attempting to clean the scuff, garnering over 24 million views in the same rough span of time (shown below, right). This is the earliest known example of the trend.

Spread

The trend spread throughout late February and early March 2024. On February 26th, 2024, TikToker^[3] @zh1dd posted a version of the trend where he makes a circle using his shoe, garnering over 8.9 million views in a week (shown below).

On February 27th, TikToker^[4] @korpeks posted a video doing the trend that gained over 2.5 million views in a week (shown below, left). On February 29th, TikToker^[5] @dreyntelka posted a video showing one man making marks on the floor with a black shoe and another erasing them with a white shoe, garnering over 6 million views in a week (shown below, right).

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