You Can Count on Me Challenge

About

You Can Count on Me Challenge refers to a series of TikTok videos in which one person puts their hand out with their palm up and the other runs toward that hand and rests their chin on it. The challenge usually connotes an obediency within the relationship between the two people participating.

Origin

On June 14th, 2013, singer Connie Talbot released the pop song "Count On Me." The music video received 42.5 million views and 547,000 likes in six years (shown below).

The earliest known You Can Count on Me Challenge video is unknown. One of the earliest videos was uploaded on February 13th, 2018 by Tik Tok user @jongsuk0206 (shown below). The video garnered 1.5 million likes and 147,700 shares in a year. The Connie Talbot sound clip used in the video has been usedin over 5.5 million videos as of April 2019.

Spread

On May 23rd, 2018, @kemal kayaoglu posted the challenge with the Connie Talbot sound under their own name. The video received over 215,000 likes and 2,957 in a year. The particular sound used in this video was then used in 222,200 videos in a year. TikTok user @rijalofficial also uploaded a, since deleted, Count on Me challenge video with the sound under their own name which was then used in 411,200 videos.

On April 16th, Best TikTok Compilation uploaded a YouTube video featuring TikTok users performing the challenge. The video received over 50,400 views in a year (shown below, left). China Spotlight upload a compilation video featuring only animals performing the challenge (shown below, right). The video received 8,500 views in 10 months.

Twitter Test / I Am Your Valentine Challenge

On April 26th, 2019, following the circulating of the count on me challenge on Twitter user @OGCORLIN put his hand out to test whether the person in front of him would rest their chin on his hand which led to confusion. The tweet entitled, "Twitter lied to me. This doesn’t work" (shown below) gained over 38,800 retweets and 180,600 likes in four days.

Many Twitter users responded to the Tweet with their own attempts. The next day, @Caiiruhh's attempt posted was successful and their video gained over 7,200 likes and 490 retweets in three days (shown below).

On April 27th, Twitter user @mikekindred_ posted a video in which the person they test the challenge on responds negatively (shown below). The post gained over 5,700 retweets and 28,200 likes in three days. On May 2nd, the internet culture news site PopBuzz^[1] published an article about the trend, referring it as the "I Am Your Valentine challenge."

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