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This or That Challenge
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About
This or That Challenge, also known as the Tricky Challenge, is a social game and internet challenge on TikTok set to the song "It's Tricky" by RUN DMC[1] in which two options are presented at a time, one at the left and one at the right side of the screen, and the TikToker must choose which one they prefer by walking or dancing off-screen in the direction of their preference. The challenge is often performed with multiple people, who line up and walk toward their preference one at a time.
Origin
It's unknown who started the This or That Challenge, but the earliest videos following the challenge date back to at least November 11th, 2020. On that day, TikToker catherinebertholddd uploaded a video to TikTok[2] in which she and three friends perform the challenge to a number of prompts, garnering over 3.4 million views in 3 weeks (shown below).
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6894064091036519685
Spread
On November 15th, Brooke Monk uploaded a video to TikTok[3] performing the challenge with her sisters, garnering over 31.7 million views in 2 weeks (shown below, left). On November 23rd, dolly_broadway uploaded a video[4] performing the challenge, garnering over 32.4 million views in 1 week (shown below, right). As of December 1st, these are the two most popular videos following the trend.
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6895505660964834566
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6900621832475479302
On November 25th, Ethan Klein of H3H3 Productions uploaded a video to TikTok[5] performing the challenge with Trisha Paytas, garnering over 1.5 million views in 6 days (shown below, left). On the same day, Paytas posted her own version of the challenge with Klein to her TikTok page,[6] garnering over 1.3 million views in the same span of time (shown below, right).
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6898783484593179910
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6898794008290594054
As of December 1st, videos using the hashtag #thisorthat have been viewed over 755 million times. The original sound for "It's Tricky" has been used in over 2.9 million videos.
Various Examples
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6895421279420026118
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6896741947357039874
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6900698140844870917
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6896623842786053382
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6895236689896197382
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6899258687857118466
Search Interest
External References
[1] YouTube – RUN DMC – It's Tricky
[2] TikTok – catherinebertholddd
[3] TikTok – I love this trend
[4] TikTok – this or that
[5] TikTok – ethankleinh3
[6] TikTok – trishlikefish88
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