About

Shaking Mannequin Head is a viral clip of a mannequin with a red wig shaking while the song "Not Okay (Alone Mix)" by SOPHIE plays in the background. The video was shared in September on Twitter and shortened on the same day to footage of only the mannequin's head shaking and began accumulating captions from there.

Origin

On September 16th, 2019, Twitter user @muriolirum posted the full clip of the mannequin shaking to "Not Okay (Alone Mix) by SOPHIE (shown below). The video gained over 6,700 likes and 1,500 retweets in two days.

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On September 16, 2019, Twitter user @Colin_Field_ tweeted a shorter clip of the mannequin shaking with the caption, "Middle age white women when an employee working for minimum wage tells them their coupon’s expired" (shown below). The video post garnered over 56,500 retweets and 225,300 likes in two days.

On the same day, Twitter user @ScorpioHole posted the shortened clip with the caption "A middle aged white woman finding out the employee she’s talking to IS the manager 😪" (shown below). The tweet accumulated over 343,800 likes and 76,100 retweets in two days.

Twitter user @benyahr tweeted the caption "Me: I’m gonna have a nice calm, anxiety-free day. Me after 4 black coffees:" which received over 35,800 likes and 6,9000 retweets in two days (shown below).

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