CriTiKaL's "Misinput"

About

Cr1TiKaL's "Misinput" refers to a viral 2018 clip of streamer and YouTuber Cr1TiKaL vehemently lying to his teammate that his friendly fire killing of him was a "misinput." In May 2021, the sound effect went viral on TikTok where users created humorous lip syncs, with the clip again gaining virality in March 2022.

Origin

In 2018, YouTuber and streamer Charles "Cr1TiKaL" White streamed^[1] a Rainbow Six Siege match on YouTube. During a casual game, a viewer in chat wrote that he would pay Cr1TiKaL if he would kill his teammate who was acting rude,^[2] with Cr1TiKaL taking the offer and shooting and killing his teammate. The teammate then proceeded to accuse and berate Cr1TiKaL for friendly fire, with Cr1TiKaL vehemently protesting that the kill was not intentional but rather a "misinput," with misinput being an accidental press of a button (YouTube^[3] upload shown below).

- Stop fucking shooting me! What the fuck is wrong with you?! Chill, what the fuck!
- It was a misinput, misinput! Calm down! You calm the fuck down!!! It was a misinput!!!
- Oh my fucking god.
- God, this community is overreacting.

Spread

On February 9th, 2019, Redditor^[4] zipfour shared the clip in the /r/Cr!TiKaL subreddit. On April 9th, 2020, YouTuber^[3] electroosis uploaded the video to YouTube, where it received over 3.2 million views in two years.

Prior to May 10th, 2021, TikToker @kysomni created the first viral meme based on the video, captioning it, "when i "accidentally" ask one of my mutuals for thigh pics" (original video no longer available). On May 10th, 2021, iFunny^[5] user sum_tart reuploaded the TikTok, with the meme gaining over 140 smiles on the app (shown below).

The upload sparked a TikTok trend in which TikTokers lip-synced the sound effect in videos captioned with various scenarios. For example, on May 10th, 2020, TikToker^[6] @jbenn775 posted a video that gained over 243,700 likes in one year (shown below, left). On May 11th, TiKToker^[7] @geekingpaas posted a video that gained over 539,800 likes in the same period (shown below, center). As of April 2022, over 4,400 videos using the sound were posted to the app.^[8]

On May 18th, 2021, Cr1TiKaL posted a video about the meme that gained over 2.2 million views on YouTube^[3] in one year (shown below, left). On October 5th, 2021, YouTuber^[12] Captain Cling posted a 3D animation based on the clip that accumulated over 2.1 million views in seven months (shown below, right).

The sound effect regained virality on TikTok in late February 2022 after on February 28th TikToker^[9] @_theunknownuser_ posted a meme about the 2022 war in Ukraine that received over 7.8 million views and 1.6 million likes in two months (shown below, left). In March and April 2022, multiple TikTok^[10][11] users uploaded more humorous videos using the soundbite (examples shown below, center and right).

Additionally, the video also inspired video captions and other memes.

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