Short Friend POVs / That One Short Friend Fighting For His Life

About

Short Friend POVs or That One Short Friend Fighting For His Life refers to a series of POV memes on TikTok portraying the "short friend" in a friend group as being minuscule in size, often by using clips of video game or movie characters fighting giant monsters alongside captions like, "POV: That one short friend fighting for his life (they are fighting a chihuahua)" to suggest the giant creature is actually normally sized. While memes about the short friend have been uploaded to TikTok as early as 2022, the trend became popularized in September 2023, often set to Captain Gutt's song "Master of the Seas" from Ice Age 4.

Origin

POV memes about being the short friend in a friend group have been uploaded to TikTok as early as 2022. For example, on December 28th, 2022, TikToker^[1] @langben.vr uploaded a vide of Hasbulla fighting captioned, "POV: Your short friend is angry at you," garnering over 1.8 million views in nine months (shown below).

On August 22nd and 23rd, 2023, TikTokers^[2][3] @the_uprising_breach and @editz._.145 posted POV memes set to Captain Gutt's song "Master of the Seas" from Ice Age 4 using clips from Pacific Rim to portray the "fat friend's" POV in an exaggerated manner, garnering over 500,000 and 198,000 views in three weeks. On September 1st, TikToker^[4] @igotbored654 posted a meme using footage from Godzilla vs. Kong captioned, "That one short friend fighting for his life (it's a pair of fruit flies)" garnering over 2.3 million views in two weeks (shown below). This is the earliest known video to use the caption, although it may not be the first.

Spread

The meme spread over the course of September 2023. On September 2nd, 2023, TikToker^[5] @comixreader posted a version of the meme that gained over 910,000 views in two weeks (shown below, left). On September 3rd, TikToker^[6] @burro781 posted a similar meme that garnered over 1.1 million views in a week (shown below, right).

On September 4th, TikToker^[7] @leloconfused posted a version of the meme about the short friend fighting a chihuahua that gained over 2.8 million views in a week (shown below).

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