Bombastic Side Eye Side Eye Tiktok Trend

The audio broke out on TikTok in the final week of January 2023. @yessame._ posted a caption skit on January 30th about a friend skipping school, and the clip hit 22 million plays and 4.7 million likes inside a month 1. A day earlier, @shreyehh used the sound for a POV of doing the side eye with glasses on, which reached 8.4 million plays and 2 million likes 6. The extended catchphrase came from January 22nd, when @lmfaomal posted a duet adding 'Bombastic side eye, criminal offensive side eye,' and the clip hit 9.6 million plays before it was later deleted 4. On February 3rd, @whatareyoulookingatbabs remixed the audio with the Vine boom sound effect, adding another 2.6 million plays 3.

The audio jumped languages in March. French creator @ksoukispam posted a version on March 13th that pulled 2 million plays and 320,100 likes (translated from French) 8, and on March 17th, @sarinaschroff cycled through seven translations including German, Portuguese, Spanish and French 7. In June the trend moved onto Twitter as an emoji-art rendering of the side-eye face. On June 7th, 2023, @dondawastaken posted the emoji version, which hit 373,000 likes and 34,000 retweets in two weeks and got reused as a standalone reaction image 5.