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Stop Saying Your Song Is Fire, Your Nose Is Growing are lyrics from the rap song "Jungal" by lilkris3000 (aka Lil Kris) and fuckrieke, which became a TikTok meme and TikTok sound in July 2024. "Your nose is growing" is a reference to the story of Pinocchio in which the character's nose grows when he lies. lilkris3000 is a white child rapper and the song was akin to gimmick and meme rap.

Origin

On June 22nd, 2024, the lilkris3000 Topic channel on YouTube^[1] shared the audio for the song "Jungal (feat. fuckrieke)" as a part of the rapper's album King Kris, receiving over 3,100 views in 20 days. At the song's 0:09-second mark (shown below), lilkris3000 raps, "Stop saying your song is fire, your nose is growing."

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On June 24th, 2024, lilkris3000 posted a photo slideshow with the song on TikTok,^[2] gaining over 268,200 plays and 14,800 likes in 18 days. The slideshow's sound was removed from TikTok soon after for currently unknown reasons.

On June 29th, TikToker^[3] @lilkrismusicplug posted the snippet, receiving over 689,900 plays and 29,100 likes in 13 days (shown below, left). The video spawned a TikTok sound^[4] that was en masse going into July 2024.

For instance, on July 5th, TikToker^[5] @nofacebriann posted a video with text reading, "Stop saying we didn't date YOUR NOSE IS GROWING," gaining over 517,300 plays and 79,000 likes in a week (shown below, right).

The sound's usage gained more viral iterations soon after. For instance, on July 10th, 2024, TikToker^[6] @evelyngrwmofficialk posted a video that had text reading, "stop saying you hate her then hanging out w her the next day ur nose is growing," receiving roughly 6.3 million plays and 1 million likes in two days (shown below).

By July 12th, 2024, the trend's primary TikTok sound^[4] had amassed over 104,100 posts.

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