About

The Yes You Can Trend is a lip-dub trend on TikTok in which users dance and lip sync to the unreleased Young Thug song "Yes You Can" over a caption about something that a person purportedly cannot or should not do, the implication being that you actually can do that thing. The trend was popularized on TikTok in mid-May 2025 and continued to prove popular leading into June, inspiring some controversy after numerous people purportedly under the age of 18 began posting versions of the trend thirst trapping with captions like, "'I can't date a 2013' #yesyoucan," meaning someone (a minor) born in 2013. These videos inspired memes on the app where people parody the posts.

Origin

On April 18th, 2025, TikToker^[1] @scaryt3rry_ uploaded a video using a remix of the unreleased Young Thug song known as "Yes You Can," which repeats the lyrics, "Yes you can," garnering over 1.1 million views in two months.

On May 14th, TikToker^[2] @dr.ackerman posted a meme set to the song captioned, "bro you can't be this obsessed with light skins," that begins with a clip from Everybody Hates Chris of Chris being pulled away by a girl who says, "I need you." The video then shows a compilation of light-skinned Black women as the repeated lyrics "Yes you can" play, garnering over 3.6 million views in a month.

On May 19th, TikToker^[3] @shon2you posted a lip dub video to the same song under the caption, "you can't just fall in love in a day," garnering over 2.3 million views in a month. This is one of the earliest known lip dub versions of the meme.

Spread

The trend continued to spread over the following weeks. For example, on May 24th, 2025, TikToker^[4] @amour_dotla11147 posted a video doing the trend while holding a baby under the caption, "You can't adopt a baby and raise it with your friends," garnering over 12 million views in just over two weeks.

Controversy / I Can't FW A 2013

Purportedly, in late May 2025, some under-18-year-old TikTokers began posting versions of the trend, implying that you can date someone under the age of 18, also inspiring parodies of the posts. Many of these posts have seemingly been buried or deleted, their presence has been overstated, or it's now hard to differentiate them from the parodies.

On May 28th, 2025, TikToker^[5] @emilyloveday posted a version of the trend under the caption, "I can't you're too young," garnering over 4 million views in two weeks.

On the same day, TikToker^[6] @carmlan1234 posted a video captioned, "2007 and 2013 #yesucan!!!" garnering over 1.2 million views in two weeks. While many commenters seem to believe the TikToker is being genuine, others wonder if it's rage bait.

On May 29th, 2025, TikToker^[7] @peacvy posted a video criticizing the trend that gained over 3.2 million views in just under two weeks.

On May 31st, TikToker^[8] @babiesareweird posted a similar video captioned, "'i can't fw a 2013' i'm 21 and people at work still ask me what highschool i go to… Go make a mud pie and play mermaids, respectfully," garnering over 1.1 million views in just over a week.

On June 10th, 2025, X^[9] user @InternetH0F reposted a video of a TikToker reacting to the video by @carmlan1234, expressing shock and disgust and believing it to be legitimate, the X user writing, "This generation is so cooked bro," garnering over 1,700 likes in under a day.

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