Girl Harmonizing With a Fan

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About

Girl Harmonizing With a Fan refers to a TikTok sound from a video posted by TikToker Claire Boyer (@claireboyermusic) in which she "decided to harmonize with my kitchen fan while making dinner." The viral video's audio was used by many creators on the app going into 2024. Many people thought that the sound was emotional and beautiful, reiterating in their videos that the sound perfectly encapsulated the feeling of grief or sadness, among other emotions. The video became a Sad Photo Slideshow Audio, used in photo slideshows on the app. Many of the videos followed the phrasal template, "It's just a girl harmonizing with a fan. No, it's X," in which "X" was a memory or situation that the girl's harmonizing evoked.

Origin

On April 18th, 2024, TikToker^[1] @claireboyermusic posted a video with text reading, "decided to harmonize with my kitchen fan while making dinner." In the video, she's wearing a grey tank top, standing in her kitchen and harmonizing with her fan. Over 11 days, the video received roughly 19.4 million plays and 3.9 million likes (shown below).

Spread

Going into April 2024, users on the app posted photo slideshows with the audio that predominantly had sad themes. An early and viral example was posted by TikToker^[2] @is_this_forever on April 19th, 2024, which started with the prompt, "You think you know yourself? Which one are you picking?" gaining over 885,200 plays and 123,700 likes in 10 days (recording shown below, left).

On April 21st, 2024, TikToker^[3] @d1midolabuser posted a slideshow with multiple memes featuring YouTuber Enya Umanzor, receiving over 556,900 plays and 107,200 likes in eight days (shown below, right).

Videos (rather than slideshows) using the original video's TikTok sound^[4] surfaced later en masse in April 2024. For instance, on April 22nd, 2024, TikToker^[5] @blondesttt posted a video, joking about how the sound was already becoming a "sadcore audio," receiving over 3.5 million plays and 639,000 likes in one week (shown below, left).

On April 25th, 2024, TikToker^[6] @spiritually.sarah posted a video in which she proclaimed, "The world is crazy because one day a girl randomly decided to record herself harmonizing with her fan while cooking dinner, without even realizing she had just perfectly encapsulated the feeling of grief in a sound." The video gained over 11.2 million plays and 1.7 million likes in four days (shown below, right).

The video gained minor reposts elsewhere, such as on Twitter / X. ^[7]

By April 29th, 2024, the original TikTok sound^[4] had amassed over 63,100 posts.