You're Fully Articulated?

About

You're Fully Articulated? is an animation meme set to an audio clip from the animated series Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse in which Midge expresses shock that Barbie is fully articulated. The animation meme was popularized on TikTok and YouTube as early as September 2023 and became increasingly popular over the following months.

Origin

On May 18th, 2012, Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse season one episode three, titled "Pet Peeve," aired. At one point in the episode, Midge expresses shock that Barbie is fully articulated, saying she can "only do this" and then showcasing how she can only bend at the waist (clip shown below).

It's unconfirmed when exactly the audio first became the subject of animations. One of the earliest examples is a Spanish animation posted by TikToker^[1] @layunu on September 26th, 2023, garnering over 1.8 million views in six months (shown below, left). On November 28th, TikToker^[2] @slice._.mark posted an animation referencing Roblox in which one character dances to an added beat after saying "I can only do this," garnering over 6.1 million views in four months (shown below, right). The animation was also uploaded to the Slice Mark YouTube^[3] page, garnering over a million views in the same span of time.

Spread

New animations using the audio became increasingly popular on both YouTube and TikTok under the original sound for Slice Mark's video over the following days. On December 10th, 2024, TikTok^[4][5] users @marvelous_stop_motion and @gass.fra posted animations to the audio, garnering over 4.5 million and 1.8 million views respectively in three months (shown below, left and right).

On December 13th, YouTuber^[6] baneenix posted an animation set to the audio that gained over 500,000 views in three months (shown below, left). On January 5th, 2024, YouTuber^[7] DangerGuy posted a Friday Night Funkin' animation using the audio that gained over 500,000 views in two months (shown below, right).

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