Muah, No Bars

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Muah, No Bars or Mwah, No Bars is a viral lip dub audio on TikTok in which rapper JT of City Girls says, "I don't even say bye no more, I just say, 'muah, no bars.'" "No bars" is a slang term essentially meaning "end of conversation." The video was originally posted to TikTok in mid-December 2023 and went viral over the following weeks, inspiring another viral lip dub audio where a woman says, "muah, blocked," followed by the beat of JT's song "No Bars," which gained similar viral success in January 2024.

Origin

On December 14th, 2023, TikToker^[1] @amillionbean posted a video of rapper JT, known from the rap group City Girls, saying, "I don't even say bye no more, I just say 'muah, no bars,'" captioned, "me every 000000.2 seconds," garnering over 2.5 million views in a month (shown below, left). On December 15th, JT posted the clip without a caption to her TikTok^[2] page, @thegirljtworld, garnering over 4.3 million views in roughly the same span of time (shown below, right). It is unclear if the video was originally posted by JT at an earlier time or if @amillionbean is connected with JT in some way.

"No Bars" is a reference to JT's song of the same name, which was released in July 2023.^[3]

Spread

The original sound for @amillionbean's video went viral throughout December 2023, inspiring over 40,000 uses in a month. The most popular examples under the sound^[4]^[5] are lip dubs, often alongside comedic captions about being done with a conversation or situation (examples shown below).

Muah, Blocked

On December 29th, 2023, TikToker^[6] @kamtunechi posted a similar video where she says, "Muah, blocked," then the beat to "No Bars" plays, garnering over 1.4 million views in two weeks (shown below).

The original sound became notably popularized in January 2024, inspiring over 33,000 uses in two weeks. Similarly to the "no bars" sound, the most viral examples are lip dubs. For example, on January 3rd, TikToker^[7] @mruncle.desire posted an example that gained over 1.1 million views in six days (shown below, left). On January 4th, TikToker^[8] @brittanykianaofficial posted an example that gained over 900,000 views in five days (shown below, right).