Best Friend Kiss Challenge

About

Best Friend Kiss Challenge is a series of TikTok videos in which a TikToker attempts to kiss their best friend. The videos, which first began trending in February 2020, are typically set to the song "Death Bed" by Powfu feat. Beabadoobee. Some of the videos went viral on Twitter in the months following the trends start.

Origin

On February 9th, 2020, TikToker @yourprettynightmare uploaded the first known best friend kiss attempt on TikTok set to the song "Death Bed" by Powfu which shortly became popular due to the trend.^[1] The video gained over 581,000 likes in two months (shown below).

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On February 12th, 2020, TikToker @markoterzo uploaded a failed attempt to kiss his best friend and garnered over 842,500 likes in a day. The next day, TikToker @nnicoleq uploaded a best friend kiss challenge video that received over 1.7 million likes in two months. The trend continued through March. On March 25th, TikToker @grace.williams01 uploaded another best friend kiss video which accumulated over 297,200 likes in three weeks (shown below, right).

On April 10th, Twitter user @Unwritten_uju reposted a failed best friend kiss challenge TikTok video and captioned it "I would fall on the ground if a man did this to me. I would fall and not move." (shown below). The tweet gained over 249,700 likes and 53,800 retweets in three days. The Daily Dot^[2] published an article on the video.

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