Bee Raising Eyebrows — Two close-up frames of a cartoon bee, first surprised then raising eyebrows with a smirk

Bee Raising Eyebrows

2022viral videodeclining

Published August 12, 2026

Bee Raising Eyebrows is a TikTok reaction meme showing a cartoon baby bee looking startled and wiggling its eyebrows before ending on a kissy face. Originally posted by @stomp_ in July 2022 using Snapchat's Bee Lens filter, it hit peak scale in early 2023 as a CapCut template.

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Overview

Bee Raising Eyebrows is a TikTok reaction meme built around a short clip of a cartoon baby bee looking startled, wiggling its eyebrows several times, then ending on a kissy face1. The bee comes from a Snapchat AR filter called "Bee Lens" that turns the user's face into a chubby, floating bumblebee3. Creators typically pair the clip with caption text expressing enthusiasm or approval toward whatever subject or object is named on screen.

The format spread first as a raw video reaction and then, from early 2023, as a CapCut template that lets anyone slot their own topic between the bee's surprised expressions2.

Origin & Background

Platform
TikTok (via Snapchat Bee Lens filter)
Creator
@stomp_
Date
2022

The bee visual started circulating in June 2022 when TikTokers picked up the Snapchat "Bee Lens" filter3. On July 7th, 2022, TikToker @stomp_ posted a version showing the bee looking shocked, raising its eyebrows several times and ending on a kissy face, with on-screen text reading "me cause you the finest mf on this entire planet"1. The clip pulled in roughly 896,400 plays and 146,000 likes over the following eight months1. After commenters asked for a cropped version, @stomp_ reposted a stripped-down copy on the secondary account @stompscrops later that day4.

How It Spread

Remix uploads started almost immediately, with TikTokers @justwitami and @a.train8 posting early variants across July and September 2022. The @a.train8 version paired the clip with a "shimmy shimmy... swalalala" audio and pulled around 219,900 plays; the bigger break came on November 13th, 2022, when @harrystyles_.bestie captioned that shimmy version "What's your Roblox Password backwards?" and cleared 4.2 million plays on TikTok, with YouTube reposts adding roughly 4.3 million more4.

The Bee Raising Eyebrows format hit peak scale in early 2023 through a CapCut template titled "Hello?!?" made by user @cookie2. TikToker @mayo.dio posted the earliest known template use on February 24th, 2023, referencing JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. On March 10th, 2023, two audio pairings blew up in parallel: @qxgofficial's NBA 2K edit set to "Blicky" by Fresh X Reckless and @250isaiah's edit set to "Who Am I" by RXK Nephew, RX Papi and DJ Smokey, each pulling over 650,000 plays within a week4. The template gathered more than 299,000 uses on TikTok inside roughly three weeks2.

How to Use This Meme

Videos typically open with a caption naming a person, object or concept the creator likes, then cut to the bee reaction as the enthusiastic reply. Common convention pairs the clip with either the "Blicky" audio or the "Who Am I" sound, and CapCut users can drop their own topic straight into the "Hello?!?" template made by @cookie2.

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