Should I Run Over This Liberal

Submission 200

About

Should I Run Over This Liberal refers to an animation trend on TikTok that gained traction in September 2024. The trend originates from a stop-motion video style by TikToker LukaBigPants, who made a video posing as a farmer in a tractor debating whether he should "run over this liberal" or "drive around him." While the original video was posted in late 2023, the animation trend only took off on TikTok in September 2024, with artists making RPG-style video game graphics featuring different characters being offered the choice to "run over" or "drive around" somebody.

Origin

TikToker @LukaBigPants posted a video emulating live-action stop-motion graphics on October 24th, 2023, showing himself dressed as a farmer trying to decide whether he should "run over this liberal" standing in front of his tractor holding up a sign, or "drive around him."

Toward the end of the video, the viewer is offered a "choice" between the two options presented as buttons, but LukaBigPants replies "nuh uh," and "don't feel like it" to the "drive around him" option. The TikTok^[1] video gathered over 1.8 million views and 270,000 likes in a year.

The earliest known animation set to the audio from the aforementioned clip was a September 18th, 2024, TikTok^[2] by user @elusivemilk, gathering over 1.8 million plays and 280,000 likes in a week.

Spread

A September 21st, 2024, TikTok^[3] by user @mellohik showing the character Bakugo from the anime My Hero Academia refusing to drive around a liberal in his path gathered over 700,000 plays and 150,000 likes in three days.

Also on September 21st, 2024, TikToker^[4] @.tootsiee posted a version of the meme showing a crude JoJo's Bizarre Adventure animation, gathering over 400,000 plays and 70,000 likes in three days.

On September 21st, TikToker^[5] @casteranimatez posted a "Should I Run Over This Liberal" animation as well, gathering over 240,000 plays and 30,000 likes in three days.

On September 23rd, X^[6] / Twitter user @moonziies posted a version of the animation trend, writing, "Should Bill Run Over This Nerd The Game!!! Available on all consoles!!! Insane Graphics!!! WHOA!!! This game definitely doesn't have free will!!! Buy it now!!!" and gathering over 13,000 likes in a day.

Should Bill Run Over This Nerd The Game!!! Available on all consoles!!! Insane Graphics!!! WHOA!!! This game definitely doesn't have free will!!! Buy it now!!! #billcipher #stanfordpines #gravityfalls #billford if you squint I guess lol pic.twitter.com/uumRWTxaVg

— Moonsiimp (@moonziies) September 23, 2024

Also on September 23rd, 2024, TikToker @LukaBigPants^[7] quoted the aforementioned video writing, "there are like a billion animators using my sound on tiktok right now and not one of them knows where it’s from," alongside a reupload of his original farmer driving a tractor video. The post gathered over 4,000 likes in a day.