About

Time To Reward Myself With A Long And Disproportionate Break is a TikTok sound and trend with which people craft skits in which they perform a minor menial task and joke that they're about to take a lengthy period of rest as a reward. Originally created in mid-2021, the trend spread on the platform over the following months into early 2022 as more TikTokers created skits using the sound.

Origin

On July 12th, 2021, TikToker annelammusic^[1] posted a video joking about how piano students practice by quickly playing one scale and rewarding themselves by "taking a long and disproportionate break." The post gained over 38,000 likes in roughly nine months (shown below).

Spread

The sound was discovered months later when it became used in multiple videos in which people crafted skits around performing a menial task and taking a long break. For example, on October 21st, 2021, TikToker noah.does.shit^[2] posted a skit that gained over 14,000 likes in six months (shown below, right). On November 22nd, 2021, TikToker oliviamaryana.art^[3] posted a skit with the sound that gained over 17,000 likes in five months (shown below, right).

The sound became more prevalent in the early spring 2022. On March 28th, 2022, TikToker codebytes._^[4] posted a video about typing one line of code, gaining over 24,000 likes in two weeks (shown below, left). On April 2nd, TikToker itsclairejean^[5] posted a video that gained over 382,000 likes in one week (shown below, right).

Various Examples

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