Throwing Tomatoes

About

Throwing Tomatoes, also known as Corny, Lame, Boo, Tomato, Tomato, Tomato, refers to a viral video on TikTok where user @niqqitee says she's sick of girls running back to men they claim they're not into, saying it's corny and lame and then saying, "tomato, tomato, tomato, I'm throwing tomatoes," while miming a tomato-throwing action. The video was posted in December 2021 and went viral as an original sound over the following months in lip-dub skits.

Origin

On December 22nd, 2022, TikToker^[1] @niqqitee posted a video where she says, "About tired of seeing, 'I be so sick of you n-,' and then the next thing it's like, 'Oh I'm outside,' like, y'all are dumb, like, corny, lame, boo, tomato, tomato, tomato I'm throwing tomatoes," gaining over 5.2 million views in five months. She reuploaded the video to TikTok^[2] as an original sound that day, gaining over 7.2 million views in the same span of time (shown below, left). The video references a trend on TikTok set to the song "I Hate U" by SZA where women lip dub to the lyrics "I be so sick of you niggas," then cut to a scene where their ex says "I'm outside" and the women are shown rushing to meet them as if crawling back to them (example shown below, right).^[3]

Spread

The original sound went viral over the following months, inspiring over 213,000 uses by May 2022. The majority of the videos are lip dubs where users joke about things that are corny or lame and mimick throwing tomatoes. For example, on January 2nd, 2022, TikToker^[4] @pepperonimuffin posted a video criticizing the beach pictures her sister took of her using the audio, gaining over 7.3 million views in four months (shown below).

On January 9th, TikToker^[5] @ohemilllly posted a video showing off her brother's tomato-themed birthday party, gaining over 2.7 million views in four months (shown below).

On February 15th, the official Spotify TikTok^[6] account uploaded an interview with @niqqitee where she elaborates on the sound and the message behind the video, gaining over 18,000 views in two months (shown below).

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