About

Walk It Back is a TikTok dance trend in which users walk forward and then walk back. The videos are typically labeled with descriptions of situations that people walk into and then leave to avoid. The videos set to a mashup remix of "Gypsy Woman" by Crystal Waters and "Yes Indeed" by Drake and Lil Baby began trending on TikTok in October 2019.

Origin

On August 6th, 2019, TikTok user @sm0l.ash uploaded clip of a "Yes Indeed"^[3] and "Gypsy Woman"^[1] remix (shown below, left). The video gained over 4,700 likes and 600 shares in two months. On October 1st, TikTok user @jessejombo uploaded the first walk it back video which referred to Size 13 Nikes (shown below, right). The video garnered over 1.3 million likes and 90,000 shares in 16 days.

Spread

On October 4th, 2019, TikTok user @idctiger uploaded a video of them with their dad doing the walk it back when entering a kitchen to get snacks and being asked to do the dishes (shown below, left). The video accumulated over 1.2 million likes and 42,300 shares in 13 days. The trend quickly became popular on TikTok.^[2] The next day, TikTok user @aaronsee_ uploaded an iteration about attempting to kill a cockroach (shown below, center). The video gained over 1.4 million likes and 99,600 shares in 12 days. On October 7th @noeneubanks uploaded their own variation which received over 1.2 million likes and 34,000 shares in 10 days (shown below, right).

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