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Extra-Long Middle Fingers or Long Middle Fingers refers to a viral internet trend across multiple platforms where users who have exceptionally long middle fingers exploit them for attention. The trend originated on Twitter starting in May 2020 but grew momentum going into 2021 across Instagram and TikTok. Images of such extra-long middle fingers are also used as exploitables in image macro memes.

Origin

On May 11th, 2020, professional Fortnite player and member of the FaZe Clan, FaZe Sway, tweeted a photo^[1] to his Twitter account, @FaZeSway, of himself flipping off his computer monitor that is running Fortnite. He captioned the image, "This game some ass," and the tweet (shown below) received roughly 8,000 likes over the course of one year.

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The image of FaZe Sway's finger became an exploitable across Twitter, getting remixed into flipping off other things. Twitter user, @WormsCrazyGolf, tweeted the first remix^[2] of the image on August 24th, 2020, Photoshopping Sway's finger in front of the game Team Fortress 2. The tweet (shown below) received roughly 8,000 likes over the course of one year.

Trend on TikTok

In November 2020, TikToker @murcebia uploaded a video of himself flipping off his low grades with an extra-long middle finger. @murcebia^[3] has since deleted all of his videos, however, this first "long middle finger" TikTok of his can be viewed in a stitch (shown below) uploaded by TikToker @devenisyourfather. The stitch,^[4] uploaded on December 1st, 2020, received roughly 52 likes over the course of 10 months.

Another TikToker, @playboyjuju, started uploading TikToks of his own extra-long middle finger in December 2020. He uploaded his first one^[5] on December 20th, 2020 (shown below), and received roughly 2.2 million views and 362,000 likes over the course of 10 months.

Another TikToker went viral for her extra-long middle finger in March 2020. TikToker @olliviahaha uploaded a video^[6] on March 10th, 2020 (shown below), and received roughly 5.2 million views and 1.1 million likes over the course of six months. Unlike all the other long-middle-finger posters before her, she received mainstream media attention for her TikTok, having various articles being written about the viral phenomenon.^[7][8]

The trend of long middle fingers continued to be popularized on Twitter and Instagram in 2021. For example, on September 16th, 2021, the Instagram account @owen_kung posted a screenshot (shown below) of an @playboyjuju TikTok. @owen_kung's post^[9] received roughly 8,700 likes in less than 24 hours. Meanwhile, the @playboyjuju TikTok^[10] that he screenshotted, which was posted on September 15th, 2021, received roughly 13.7 million views and 2.2 million likes over the course of two days before being deleted.

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