Three Arab Guys Laughing

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About

Three Arab Guys Laughing refers to an exploitable video template of three Arab and Muslim men on a video call who all start laughing when one more person joins the call. The original video, posted in late 2023, is a recording of a TikTok LIVE including TikTokers fahad13111 and hsooalamir1. The template trended on TikTok as a CapCut template in early 2024, as meme creators replaced the square of the person joining the call, showing the men laughing at their chosen subject.

Origin

On October 5th, 2023, TikToker^[1] @ameen.alluopani posted a screen recording of a TikTok LIVE in which three Arab men are seen laughing at a fourth man when he joins. The man in the top left is TikToker^[2] @hsooalamir1 (account since deleted). The man in the top right is TikToker^[3] @fahad13111. It's currently unknown who the other two men are. Over six months, the video received roughly 337,300 plays and 7,400 likes (shown below, left).

Also, on October 16th, TikToker^[4] @hashaswarhma posted a long recording of the LIVE, receiving over 3.8 million plays and 176,900 likes in six months (shown below, right).

Spread

Viral reposts of the video persisted on TikTok^[5] going into late 2023. In early 2024, memetic usage of the video started to surface, evident in a Reel posted by Instagram^[6] user @arbah_youssef on January 17th, 2024, in which he labeled the men with flags of Arab countries, receiving over 283,600 likes in three months (shown below).

On February 8th, 2024, TikToker^[7] @senhodaniel created a CapCut template with the video. He debuted it in an Alpha Werewolf Transformation filter meme (shown below, left).

On March 26th, TikToker^[8] @m_m_r2_2 posted the first viral usage of the template, showing former Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri al-Maliki picking his nose, gaining over 942,800 plays and 31,500 likes in a month (shown below, right).

Going into April 2024, viral usage of the template persisted, evident in a video posted by TikToker^[9] @haroun_asmrani11 on April 14th, 2024, showing a dwarf version of Ronaldo, receiving over 1.9 million plays and 56,200 likes in 10 days (shown below).