Walking on a Dream
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About
Walking on a Dream refers to a series of TikTok videos that use Empire of the Sun's 2008 song "Walking on a Dream"[2] literally by using the freeze frame filter to walk on the top of a dream they had written out. The videos became popular on TikTok in April 2020 and went trending on the platform the next month.
Origin
On April 29th, 2020, TikToker @ketamimesandwich uploaded the first Walking on a Dream TikToks by walking on a paper with "girls being funny" written on it (shown below). The video gained over 42,900 likes in a month.
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6821261291403939078
Spread
On May 18th, 2020, TikToker @_robby513 used the song in a video of himself walking on "having good mental health" (shown below, left). The video accumulated over 487,000 likes in 11 days (shown below, left). On May 22nd, TikToker and YouTuber MrBeast uploaded a variation that garnered over 1.3 million likes in a week (shown below, center). On May 29th, Jason Derulo uploaded a video of himself walking on a paper that says, "performing in 2020" (shown below, right). The video received over 263,900 likes in a day. StayHipp[1] published an article on the trend.
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6828036856098163973
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6829376634089442566
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6830950085606657286
Various Examples
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6829373640652360965
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6828720332921179398
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6830080871068945670
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6828677547417521414
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6828949444596174085
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6829432763213434118
Search Interest
External References
[1] StayHipp – Walking on a Dream TikTok Trend
[2] YouTube – Walking on a Dream
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