Does Anyone Recognize This Room?

About

Does Anyone Recognize This Room? is a caption used in a series of videos on TikTok where people, often women, film the room of a person they're hooking up with or dating to ask viewers if they recognize the room to determine whether the man is a player or not. The earliest known viral video to use the caption was posted to TikTok in November 2020, becoming increasingly popular over the following years.

Origin

On November 29th, 2020, TikToker^[1] @xoxjos posted a video from her selfie camera where she spins around a boy's room, captioned, "before i buy this mf a Christmas present does anyone recognize his room?" garnering over 1.5 million views in just over two years (shown below, left). The idea behind the video is that if people claim to have seen the room before, it suggests that the boy is a player and sleeps around.

On December 10th, TikToker^[2] @heyyhaley posted a duet to the video showing the same room, garnering over 4.3 million views in the same rough span of time (shown below, right). The video is a hoax, with the user later commenting, "This was literally a joke Bc this is my room HAHAHAZ."

Spread

Similar videos were posted in the following months, gaining considerable attention. On December 21st, 2020, TikToker^[3] @lexmer posted a video like this, which was duetted by TikToker^[4] @hunter.dodge on January 1st, 2021, showing the same room, garnering over 749,000 views in two years (shown below).

On August 24th, 2021, TikToker^[5] @ella.cedrone posted a duet to a video like this expressing shock over the similar dogs in the videos, garnering over 4.7 million views in two years (shown below, left). On April 4th, 2022, TikToker @mossrecovery_official posted a video showing TikToker @eddyp143's video following the trend (now deleted) with an attached video showing TikToker^[6] @thisismadara seemingly in the same room, garnering over 106,000 views and 7.6 million views respectively in a year (shown, right). The video response appears to be a prank.

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