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Can I Use This For Red Carpet 💜 refers to a FlopTok meme featuring Karla Sofía Gascón, best known for her role in Emilia Perez. The clip shows various celebrities like Zendaya, Saoirse Ronan and Ariana Grande playing with a colourful plastic twirling toy and trying to figure out what it is. The clip then cuts to a noticeably louder Karla Sofía Gascón, who asks, "Can I use this for uh… red carpet?" while holding the toy up to her hair. The video gained traction on TikTok soon after it was released in January 2025, with people incorporating the Donatella Versace Purple Heart Emoji into the meme and editing the footage of Gascón to make her even louder.

Origin

On January 4th, 2025, W Magazine posted a YouTube^[1] video showing several Oscar-nominated actors playing with a flimsy, plastic twirling toy. The actors were tasked with describing and then naming the object. Karla Sofía Gascón appears at roughly the 0:28 timestamp, asking, "Can I use this for uh… red carpet." The video gathered over 300,000 views in five months.

The clip began making the rounds on TikTok in subsequent weeks, with TikToker^[2] @ariankasrilanka posting a clip where Gascón's voice was artificially made even louder on January 19th, 2025. The post gathered over 11 million plays and 1.7 million likes in five months.

Spread

Memes about Karla Sofía Gascón saying, "Can I use this for uh, red carpet?" continued to make the rounds in subsequent weeks, with TikToker^[3] @mrsplaygirlcartii reposting sped-up and slowed-down versions of the clip on January 20th, 2025. The video gathered over 300,000 plays and 50,000 likes in five months.

On January 23rd, 2025, TikToker^[4] @rioschild gathered over 5 million plays and 800,000 likes on a video that inserted increasingly louder versions of Karla Sofía Gascón's "Can I Use This for Uh, Red Carpet" clip in the W Magazine YouTube video.

On January 31st, TikToker^[5] @migueangelou inserted Gascón's saying, "Can I use this for uh, red carpet," into his hand-drawn meme collage, gathering over 130,000 plays and 14,000 likes in five months.

On February 4th, 2025, TikToker^[6] @faris_nasha posted a hand-drawn version of the meme as well, gathering over 2.4 million plays and 300,000 likes in four months.

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