Sir? Sir? Sir, Are You There?

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About

Sir? Sir? Sir, Are You There? refers to a clip from a 2019 video of Twitch streamer Quackity pranking phone scammers in which he imitates a scammer mockingly using the quoted phrase "Sir, are you there?" The clip's audio became a widespread original sound on TikTok in June 2021, associated with a lip-dub trend.

Origin

On January 15th, 2019, the QuackityVOD's YouTube^[1] channel uploaded a now-deleted video clipped from a Twitch stream in which he messes with phone scammers. At one point in the video (timestamp 37:41, shown below) Quackity pretends to talk into a phone imitating a scammer, saying, "Sir? Sir? Sir, Are You There?," his voice cracking several times. The video gained over 222,000 views in two years.

Spread

On an unknown date prior to June 2021, TikToker^[2] @westonkouryalt posted an original sound consisting of Quackity saying the line. In May, TikTokers began using the sound in lip-dub skits, fitting it into various contexts, often depicting someone trying to get someone else's attention. For example, on May 12th, and 13th, TikTokers^[3]^[4] @emalley5 and @traumatizedputhy posted skits using the sound, garnering over 1.2 million and 529,000 views respectively in a month (shown below, left and right).

The sound continued to spread over the course of the next month, resulting in over 25,000 videos using the sound by the end of June. On June 6th, TikToker^[5] @dannyphantom.exe posted a skit using the sound, and TikToker^[6] @ajclementine posted one on June 19th, garnering over 4.3 and 5.5 million views respectively by June 30th (shown below, left and right). As of the same date, these are the most popular videos under the sound.