You Like Making a Deal With the Devil?

About

You Like Making a Deal With the Devil? is a series of TikTok parody videos in which users lip sync to a line from The Vampire Diaries which was edited into American rapper XXXTentacion's song "Look At Me!"

Origin

The earliest TikTok "You like making a deal with the devil?" parody video is unknown. According to YouTuber Dierdre Nevers, the original sound clip was uploaded to Instagram. It was made by combining XXXTentacion's "Look at Me" and The Vampire Diaries character, Kai Parker's^[1] line "You like making a deal with the devil?"

On September 12th, 2017, XXTENTACION uploaded an official video for "Look At Me!" to YouTube (shown below). The video gained over 40 million views and 1.2 million likes in two years.

On May 25th, 2018, YouTuber Victoria Counce reuploaded a parody video by Musical.ly user alverdine (shown below).

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The sound clips that circulated TikTok were uploaded by @lovisaajonsson which was used in over 29,800 videos, @baby.tavy which was used in 36,000 videos and @brokeboybeck which was used in over 67,000 videos as of February 19th, 2019.

In Summer 2018, many TikTok users uploaded sincere lip syncs with the clip. For example, On June 23rd, YouTuber Ellie Prieto uploaded a TikTok parody video (shown below). The video gained 6,455 views

In February, 2019, the sound clip experienced a resurgence when TikTok user @brokeboybeck uploaded his parody video which has gained 164,900 likes, 14,400 comments and 130,900 shares within a couple of weeks. Many TikTok users created duets with @brokeboybeck or parodies of his specific videos emphasizing his jawline or expressions.

On February 13th, YouTuber Really Got It uploaded "You Like Making A Deal With The Devil? TikTok Memes Compilation" which has gained 221,089 views and 3,400 likes in a week (shown below, left). On February 17th, YouTuber MitchellReacts uploaded a reaction video to the meme compilation (shown below, right). The video gained 1,744 views and 143 likes in two days.

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