About

Sticking Out Your Tongue for the Picture refers to lyrics from the song "ecstacy" by SUICIDAL-IDOL, first released on SoundCloud in July 2021. In mid-to-late 2023, a slowed-down version of the song went viral on TikTok, inspiring lip dub videos, with the original version of the song also going viral. That October, a parody of the song known as "Sticking Out Your Gyat for the Rizzler" went viral on the app. The song is produced by buhguul.

Origin

On July 19th, 2021, SoundCloud^[1] user SUICIDAL-IDOL published a song titled "ecstacy," garnering over 379,000 plays in two years (YouTube reupload shown below, left). A slowed-down version of the song began to gain popularity on TikTok^[2] later that year. For example, on August 31st, 2021, Russian TikToker^[3] @kaidalooov.i posted a video to the slowed version, garnering over 220,000 likes in two years. On November 6th, YouTuber^[4] trynabeus posted a slowed down version of the song, garnering over 1.6 million views in two years (shown below, right).

Sticking out your tongue for the picture
You're so pretty, you're so popular

I just wanna be your sweetheart

Spread

The slowed-down version of the song, which was used on TikTok as early as August 2021, became notably popular on TikTok starting around July 2023, inspiring over 238,000 uses by October of that year (popular examples from mid-2023 shown below).

On September 10th, 2023, TikToker^[5] @shamelessistherapy uploaded a compilation of clips from the U.S. TV series Shameless set to the slowed down song, naming the sound, "why r so many hot people using this." The original sound was used over 490,000 times by October 10th, largely for a lip dub trend. Some of the most popular examples include a September 25th upload by TikToker^[6] @ellielobio that gained over 11.8 million views in two weeks (shown below, left) and a September 28th upload by TikToker^[7] @riwww, garnering over 19 million views in two weeks (shown below, right).

On September 25th, another version of the audio, this time at regular speed, was also uploaded by TikToker^[8] @r7ptor, garnering over 25,000 uses in the same span of time.

Related Memes

Sticking Out Your Gyat for the Rizzler

Sticking Out Your Gyat for the Rizzler is a viral song parody of "ecstacy" by SUICIDAL-IDOL, sung by TikToker @papaboy020, featuring lyrics peppered with Gen Z slang, including the terms "gyatt," "rizz," "skibidi" and "fanum tax." The song was originally posted to TikTok on October 5th, 2023, set to a video of a Fortnite character singing the song. Its original sound was used over 20,000 times that month in videos including lip dubs, reactions and skits, some using the audio to portray the typical Gen Z child.

Various Examples

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