Oh Look a Strawberry

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About

Oh Look a Strawberry refers to a viral video, TikTok sound and meme in which a woman repeats, "Oh look, a strawberry!" as her voice becomes increasingly garbled, correlating with the increasingly dilapidated strawberries that the video progresses through. She's also speaking over a recorder performance that sounds like a medieval flute. The original clip was posted by TikToker @amaliatown in June 2024, spreading over the following months. TikTokers used the video's audio to showcase dilapidated progressions of different objects and animals, like pet cats, for instance.

Origin

On June 26th, 2024, TikToker^[1] @amaliatown posted a video in which she showed a progression of increasingly dilapidated strawberries while repeating, "Oh look, a strawberry!" Each time she said the phrase, her voice became more garbled. She was speaking over the sound of a recorder being played. Over two months, the video received over 30.9 million plays and 6 million likes (shown below).

Also on June 26th, @amaliatown posted another TikTok^[2] that made the video its own TikTok sound.^[3]

Spread

Other TikTokers used the TikTok sound^[3] going into the following months. An early and viral example was shared by TikToker^[4] @diversityinnd on June 30th, 2024, which had a caption reading, "how it feels when my energy depletes during social gatherings," gaining over 135,500 plays and 18,300 likes in two months (shown below, left).

On July 12th, TikToker^[5] @heatherredmond6 shared an iteration about store-bought strawberries, gaining over 5.7 million pays and 607,100 likes in a month (shown below, right).

Increasingly viral iterations surfaced later in July 2024. For instance, on July 24th, TikToker^[6] @nesharose88 posted an iteration using smiley face french fries, receiving over 4.9 million plays and 598,500 likes in two weeks (shown below, left).

On August 2nd, TikToker^[7] @theofficialkittenmitten posted an iteration about "Cats but they get more skrunkly," earning over 16.7 million plays and 3.6 million likes in five days (shown below, right).

During the same timeframe, YouTube Shorts used the Oh Look a Strawberry sound, such as a Short posted by YouTuber^[8] @Eeveebork on August 1st showing her Shiba Inu trying to catch strawberries, gaining over 83,800 views and 5,000 likes in six days (shown below).

By August 7th, 2024, the trend's primary TikTok sound^[3] had amassed over 26,000 posts on the platform.