English or Spanish?

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English or Spanish? also known as Whoever Moves Is Gay Do You Speak English or Spanish? Whoever Moves First Is Gay or If You Move You're Gay, refers to a series of TikTok prank videos posted by TikToker @alfonsopinpon_ in which he asks men in public, "English or Spanish?" and then tells them in their preferred language that whoever moves first is gay. Then, the heterosexual men freeze in a stare-down with the TikToker. Posted in 2024, the "Whoever moves is gay" videos earned edits and memes, predominantly surfacing in May 2024, following a viral edit posted by TikToker @dr1nkz7 which used the song "Static" by Steve Lacy ("Baby you've got somethin' in your nose / Sniffin' that K, did you feel the hole?").

Origin

On February 25th, 2024, TikToker^[1] @alfonsopinpon_ posted a video in which he approached two guys in a mall and told them in Spanish that whoever moves first is gay. Over three months, the video received roughly 185,500 plays and 7,900 likes (shown below).

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On February 26th, 2024, TikToker^[2] @alfonsopinpon_ posted another video following the premise, receiving over 3.2 million plays and 418,200 likes in three months (shown below, left). His videos continued to go viral as he started to speak English in them too, like one TikTok^[3] posted on March 14th, 2024, receiving over 4.6 million plays and 377,700 likes in two months (shown below, right).

Going into 2024, other creators on the app started to make edits with @alfonsopinpon_'s videos. An early, viral example was posted by TikToker^[4] @nathan.legagnoux on April 17th, 2024, gaining over 5.4 million plays and 436,600 likes in a month (shown below, left).

On May 23rd, 2024, TikToker^[5] @dr1nkz7 posted an edit that received roughly 39.1 million plays and 4.5 million likes in a week (shown below, right).

English Or Spanish?

Going into late May 2024, TikTokers started to post memes about the question, "English or Spanish?" referencing the "Whoever Moves Is gay" videos. For instance, on May 25th, 2024, TikToker^[6] @bucky_1222 posted a slow fade-in meme reading, "POV: you're walking in a mall and someone comes up to you and asks if 'you speak English or Spanish,'" gaining over 4.1 million plays and 681,700 likes in five days (shown below).

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