About

"Every Good Girl Needs a Little Thug" Hands Dance refers to a TikTok dance trend using lyrics (What it is hoe? What's up? Every good girl needs a little thug. Every Black boy needs a little love) from the song "What It Is (feat. Kodak Black)" by Block Boy that evolved into an exploitable CapCut template showing two hands with long nails performing the dance. The template of the hands dancing was inserted over images, primarily of cats and dogs, making it appear as if the hands were the image's hands.

Origin

On May 21st, 2023, Indonesian TikToker^[1] @sophiaaljufri uploaded a video that used the song "What It Is (feat. Kodak Black)" by Block Boy, in which she performed a hand-based dance. The video gained roughly 1 million plays and 75,600 likes in one month (shown below, left). Her dance inspired others to make their own videos, specifically within Indonesian TikTok in late May 2023. Then, on May 31st, 2023, TikToker^[2] @maa_5050 uploaded a "tutorial" for the dance that showed just her hands and arms on a black background, gaining roughly 325,100 likes in three weeks (shown below, right).

On June 5th, 2023, TikToker^[3] @maa_5050 uploaded another "tutorial" for the same song and dance, gaining roughly 815,700 likes in 15 days (shown below). Her secondary video then inspired CapCut^[4] user nadia to upload a template on June 5th that used @maa_5050's hands.

Spread

Over the course of 15 days, nadia's CapCut^[4] template amassed over 1.2 million uses. For instance, on June 14th, 2023, TikToker^[5] @mistermainer posted a video that inserted a dog named Joy working at Target behind the hands, gaining roughly 3.5 million plays and 587,300 likes in six days (shown below, left). On June 15th, 2023, influencer James Charles posted a TikTok^[6] with the template, gaining roughly 14.3 million plays and 1.9 million likes in five days (shown below, right).

Various Examples

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