Bro Dropped the Hardest Transition and Thought We Wouldn't Notice

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About

Bro Dropped the Hardest Transition and Thought We Wouldn't Notice, also known as Bro Dropped the Ugliest Transition or Bro Dropped The Most Disgusting Transition, refers to a series of catchphrases prevalent on TikTok that label good video transitions (ranging from movie transitions to video game transitions) as "going hard." Initial use of the phrase started off earnest but slowly evolved into ironic usage as bad (yet still smooth) transitions were labeled as "the hardest ever," eventually incorporating the use of many similar adjectives like "ugliest," "dirtiest" and "most disgusting." The TikToks, which started in early 2023, predominantly used a remix of Playboi Carti's song "Immortal" ("Cash Carti bitch") and the 21 Savage x Metro Boomin' song "Glock In My Lap" ("He think he the battery, we call him Elon Musk").

Origin

On January 11th, 2023, TikToker^[1] @mrglizzygod399 posted a clip from the third Ice Age movie Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and added text overlay reading, "Didn't expect ice age to have the coldest transition in movie history💀." Over the course of two months, the video received roughly 14.7 million plays and 2.5 million likes (shown below).

Additionally, the video used a TikTok^[2] sound called "glock in my lap x divine hell," which was a remix of Playboi Carti's song "Immortal"^[3] and 21 Savage x Metro Boomin's song "Glock In My Lap."^[4] The remix was created by TikToker^[5] @poyson77 on November 19th, 2022.

Spread

Going into mid-January 2023, multiple TikTokers followed @mrglizzygod399's example by showcasing other video transitions and using the "glock in my lap x divine hell" TikTok^[2] sound. For instance, on January 13th, 2023, TikToker^[6] @goofyeditsproduction posted a video that showed a Spider-Man transition, earning roughly 7.3 million plays and 1.6 million likes in two months (shown below, left). On January 15th, TikToker^[7] @starwars.galactic posted a copycat video, using a new TikTok^[8] sound that excluded the 21 Savage lyrics. In two months, the video received roughly 2.3 million likes (shown below, right).

Going into February and March 2023, multiple TikTokers used both TikTok^[2]^[8] sounds to create meme videos that highlighted transitions using variants of the catchphrase, "Bro dropped the hardest transition and thought we wouldn't notice."