Why Is It Spicy?

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About

Why Is It Spicy? refers to a viral video and TikTok audio by user @kissmytisha where she drinks from a cup of McDonald's Sprite then says in a deep voice, "Why is it spicy?" The video was originally posted in July 2020 then deleted at around 5 million views and reposted by the same TikToker that same month, becoming a popular lip dub audio and becoming the subject of remixes over the following months.

Origin

On July 23rd, 2020, TikToker^[1] @kissmytisha reuploaded a video of hers that was originally uploaded and deleted days earlier where she drinks from a cup of McDonald's Sprite then asks, "Why is it spicy?" in a deep voice, garnering over 1.8 million views in three years (shown below). The original video allegedly gained over 5.4 million views before it was deleted by TikTok.

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The reupload's original sound became notably popular over the following years in lip dub videos (popular examples from 2021 shown below).^[2]^[3] The original sound was used over 17,000 times in two years.

On March 11th, 2022, TikToker^[4] @kourtni_eckstein posted an edit of the sound combining it with the Just Hay Fever sound, garnering over 2 million views in a year (shown below). The original sound for @kourtni_eckstein's video also became popular, inspiring over 10,000 videos in a year.