From The Top, Make It Drop

About

From The Top, Make It Drop refers to parodies of a WAP lyric which grew popular on Twitter. The parodies involve people posting two pictures usually showing a pop culture character who famously suffered a fall or dropped something in their movie or television show.

Origin

In "WAP" by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion, the chorus begins "From the top, make it drop." On September 16th, 2020, Twitter user @bubblydery^[1] posted two pictures of Hendery from Chinese boy group WayV doing a split, gaining over 170 retweets and 840 likes (shown below).

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The format began growing more popular when it began to incorporate movie and film references. On September 20th, 2020, Twitter user @FALCONVERSE^[2] posted the lyrics with pictures of Black Widow from Avengers, gaining over 290 retweets and 1,400 likes (shown below, left). On September 22nd, user @littlechirons^[3] posted a Bridge to Terabithia reference, gaining over 2,300 retweets, 2,200 quote tweets, and 16,000 likes (shown below, right).

Other popular examples include a post by @miovies^[4] which used stills from Parasite and gained over 6,900 retweets and 37,000 likes (shown below, left) and a post by @bestofpugh^[5] with used stills from Midsommar and gained over 16,000 retweets and 76,000 likes (shown below, right). The meme was covered by Junkee.^[6]

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