Let Me Tell You Something!

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About

Let Me Tell You Something! is a viral video of a scared man sitting in a chair about to bungee jump while screaming in an Indian accent "let me tell you something" to the attendants who are about to drop him. After its upload in mid-2022, the sound was used on TikTok by many who posed humorous lip-dub skits that prompt desperate hesitation.

Origin

On June 28th, 2022, the TikTok^[1] account shotovercanyonswing posted a video of a male customer sitting in what they called "the chair" about to be dropped off the ledge in order to bungee jump. The man is seen shouting, "Wait, wait wait, let me tell you something! Let me tell you something!" and subtly laughing as he does so. Over the course of three weeks, the video received roughly 51.1 million plays and 5.9 million likes (shown below).

On June 29th, 2022, TikToker^[2] awakeningsouls posted a video that used the audio in shotovercanyonswing's TikTok.^[1] In the video, awakeningsouls plays the part of his guardian angels wanting to take him back to Earth. Over the course of three weeks, the video received roughly 360,000 plays and 58,500 likes (shown below). It is the first known use of the sound in a meme.

Spread

In July 2022, the sound started to be used en masse by TikTokers on the platform. For instance, on July 3rd, 2022, TikToker^[3] amir4pres used the sound to joke about, "when the ugly girl who you been flirting with threatens to post ya messages," earning roughly 307,300 plays and 69,200 likes in two weeks (shown below, left). TikToker^[4] nfbofficial also used the sound on July 3rd in a video that joked about his girl robbing him. It received roughly 1.1 million plays and 202,600 likes in two weeks (shown below, right).

Creators began moving hyperbolically in their TikToks, jumping up and down and waving their hands as the video's speed was set at 2X. For instance, on July 5th, 2022, TikToker^[5] hueyyy2.0 posted a video where he did just this, earning roughly 1.1 million plays and 247,600 likes in 13 days (shown below, left). On July 6th, TikToker^[6] jaksin21 also used the 2X speed function in his video and received roughly 9.6 million plays and 1.7 million likes in 12 days (shown below, right).

On July 16th, 2022, the YouTube channel of the original bungee jumpers, Shotover Canyon Swing Queenstown, posted the full-length video of the "Let Me Tell You Something!" clip, earning roughly 3,300 views in two days (show below).