My Name Is Skyler White, Yo

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My Name Is Skyler White, Yo refers to a scene from Breaking Bad in which Walter White's wife Skyler (Skylar) confronts Jesse Pinkman in his driveway about selling marijuana to her husband, ultimately not knowing about the meth business. The scene became a lip dub trend on TikTok in 2022, mostly due to Skyler's repetition and emphasis of the word "Yo." Also in their videos, TikTokers cosplayed as Skyler and Jesse and also made the Chad Face.

Origin

On January 27th, 2008, the second episode of the first season of Breaking Bad aired titled "Cat's in the Bag…"^[1] in which Skyler White confronted Jesse Pinkman in his driveway about selling marijuana to her husband, not knowing about the meth business or the dead body behind Jesse's car. The scene was called "Skyler Confronts Jesse" and was originally uploaded to YouTube ^[2] on May 27th, 2021, by the channel Rotten Tomatoes TV, where over the course of one year, it received roughly 943,100 views (shown below).

Jesse: Look lady, whatever you're selling, I ain't buying, yo.
Skyler: Well, my name is Skyler White, yo! My husband is Walter White, yo! Uh-huh, he told me everything.
Jesse: Seriously?
Skyler: That's right. And just so you know, my brother-in-law is a D.E.A. agent and I will not hesitate to call him, not if I have to, understood? This is your one and only warning. Do not sell marijuana to my husband.
Jesse: Okay?
Skyler: I mean it. Don't call or house again. You stay away from him or you will be one, sorry individual. You get me?
Jesse: I-I-I think so, yeah. Um, no more marijuana. I can-I can dig it.
Skyler: Okay, dig it, wonderful.

On February 24th, 2022, TikToker^[3] mineralsmarie reposted the clip to the platform, earning roughly 1.4 million plays and 159,900 likes in seven months (shown below, left). Using mineralsmarie's sound, on August 18th, 2022, TikToker^[4] 420kushdaddy69 posted a video that stated, "my outfit is giving skylar white," and additionally referenced Skyler Singing "Happy Birthday Mr. President" to Ted in its caption. Over the course of three weeks, the video received roughly 20,800 play and 3,500 likes (shown below, right).

Spread

On August 29th, 2022, TikToker^[5] phurrealphil lip dubbed the video in her bedroom, earning roughly 57,000 plays and 13,900 likes in eight days (shown below, left). On August 30th, 2022, TikToker^[6] idiotpacked posted a video in which her and her friend cosplayed as Jesse and Skyler and lip dubbed the audio. Over the course of one week, the video received roughly 373,500 plays and 81,500 likes (shown below, right).

Videos using the sound became increasingly viral continuing into September 2022. For instance, on September 1st, 2022, TikToker^[7] levigarciaa earned roughly 2 million plays and 385,500 in five days for his use of the sound. By September 6th, 2022, the sound^[8] had amassed roughly 10,100 videos.

Kazuya Guy

Kazuya Guy is a nickname given to TikToker @emilseljeseth whose facial expression gained virality in September and October 2022 as a reference for redraws. The exploitable meme's name was spawned by a viral tweet referencing the fighting video game Tekken 8.