@Miguelcaban's "Police Open Up" TikTok

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@Miguelcaban's "Police Open Up" TikTok is a comedy sketch by TikToker Miguel Caban. In the sketch, police attempt to get the main character to open the door and talk to the authorities. When the character discovers that there are two officers, he suggests that they speak to each other. The video inspired numerous recreations, lip-sync videos and animated adaptations.

Origin

On June 10th, 2020, TikToker @Miguelcaban posted the original video. In the video, the characters have the following exchange:

Police: Police! Open up!
Main character: What do you want?
Police: We just want to talk.
MC: Do you have a warrant?
Police: No, just come outside. We want to talk.
MC: I don't want to talk. How many of you are there?
Police: There's two of us, sir.
MC: Good. Then talk to each other.

The post received more than 2 million views, 317,000 reactions and 1,000 comments in less than two years (shown below).

Spread

Following the post, people began posting recreations of the video that use the sound from the original post. For example, on July 30th, 2019, TikToker @king_vectober posted a variation that received more than 189,000 likes and 300 comments in less than two years (shown below, left).

The video also inspired numerous animated variations. On May 20th, 2020, TIkToker @peachyscreations posted one such version that received more tahn 591,000 recactions and 1,400 comments in less than one year (shown below, center).

The following month, on June 17th, TikToker @nutshellanimations posted another animated version that received more than 321,000 reactions and 1,900 comments in less than one year (shown below, right).

In less than two years, the sound used in the sketch has been used in more than 100,000 videos.^[1]

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