Hand Over Face Lie Detector / Eyes Over Heaven Hand Trend

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Hand Over Face Lie Detector / Secret Message or Eyes Over Heaven Hand Trend is a TikTok trend referencing the anime JoJo's Bizarre Adventure where people place their hand over their face and react to a sentence by peering through their fingers to detect a lie, making a W gesture with their pointer and pinky stretched outward with two words between their fingers. Many videos also use a remix of Melanie Martinez song "Paranoia," and copies a hand gesture from the Jojo No Kimyou Na Bouken Eyes Of Heaven TikTok trend. The trend, which is also associated with the hashtags "#eyesoverheaven"^[7] and "#handoverface,"^[8] began on French TikTok in early October 2022 and spread to other countries in subsequent weeks. The trend also evolved into parody form with people mocking specific videos and using the format to repeat Vine dialogues.

Origin

On November 15th, 2016, Melanie Martinez's official YouTube^[9] account posted the music video for her song, "Pacify Her," gathering over 219 million views in nearly five years (seen below).

On April 23rd, 2022, TikToker^[10] @speadupsongs posted a sped up snippet of the instrumental from the aforementioned song, gathering over 500,000 plays and 30,000 likes in six months (seen below). All subsequent participants in the trend are collected under this TikTok audio.

On October 5th, 2022, French TikTokers @user2682919183739 and @lunatn_ posted the earliest known videos participating in the trend. TikToker^[1] @user2682919183739 posted a video with a text overlay that read, "Mom can I stay home, I'm super tired. I don't feel like going to high school." she then placed her hand over her face and spread her fingers to reveal the truth; "help." The post gathered over 900,000 plays and 190,000 likes in nearly two weeks (seen below, left). TikToker^[2] @lunatn_ posted a video with a text overlay that read, "What broke you the most," followed by the answer, "the past." the post gathered over 800,000 plays and 140,000 likes in nearly two weeks (seen below, right).

Spread

The trend continued in the subsequent weeks, with TikTokers outside France participating in the trend as well. On October 6th, 2022, TikToker^[3] @urwifeyy6 posted a video containing a text overlay that read, "sorry I replied late I was…," and peered through their fingers to discern the truth which was "losing interest." The post gathered over 1.4 million views and 300,000 likes in nearly two weeks (seen below, left). On October 12th, TikToker^[4] @greekuniversity posted a video following the meme format to say that he is still involved in fraternities because of his "oath." The post gathered over 800,000 plays and 20,000 likes in nearly five days (seen below, right).

TikTokers also soon began to parody the video format. On October 14th TikToker^[5] @completely_sane_man posted a video containing a text overlay that read, "The mafia isn't your fkn aesthetic" to which they responded, "I cooka da pizza." The post gathered over a million plays and 200,000 likes in nearly three days (seen below, left). Also on October 14th, TikToker^[6] @alluringskull posted a video using the video format to deliver dialogues from a popular Vine video, saying "Stop I could've dropped" followed by "my crossaint." The video gathered over 1 million plays and 200,000 likes in nearly three days (seen below, right).

As of October 18th, 2022, the associated hashtags "#handoverface" and "#eyesoverheaven" accumulated over 75,000 and 6 million views, respectively.