I Like You Have A Cupcake — Cartoon character with paper crown offering cupcakes to a red-haired girl at a school desk in Fish Hooks

I Like You Have A Cupcake

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Published August 15, 2026

"I Like You Have A Cupcake" is a TikTok audio meme built on a 2011 clip from Disney's Fish Hooks in which the character Albert Glass hands out birthday cupcakes and openly rejects one classmate with a groan. It became a viral lip-dub sound in July 2021, used by TikTokers to rank things or people they like against ones they don't.

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Overview

"I Like You Have A Cupcake" is an audio meme pulled from a scene in Disney's animated series Fish Hooks, where the character Albert Glass passes out birthday cupcakes to his classmates. He repeats the title phrase to each fish, groans uncomfortably at one he can't stand, then keeps going down the row as if she doesn't exist2.

Creators use the audio as a lip-dub format on TikTok, pairing each "I like you" line with something they want to boost and dropping the groan on whatever they're roasting. A spinoff sound called "Smack My Ass Like A Drum" splices the same dialogue with a track by rapper CupcakKe3.

Origin & Background

Platform
Disney Channel (Fish Hooks) / TikTok (viral spread)
Creator
@chrisevanssonsgf
Date
2021

The scene first aired on January 29th, 2011, in the Fish Hooks episode "Fishing for Compliments: The Albert Glass Story," season 1, episode 181. Albert Glass celebrates his birthday by handing out cupcakes to his class, floats over the character Bea while groaning uncomfortably, then quietly moves on to the next fish.

The clip resurfaced a decade later on July 22nd, 2021, when TikTok user @chrisevanssonsgf posted a version labeling each cupcake recipient with a different photo of Chris Evans and putting a mustached shot of him in Bea's rejected slot, drawing over 8 million views in three weeks3.

How It Spread

Beauty creator James Charles caught the sound early, posting a ranking of his own past looks on July 29th that hit over 14 million views inside two weeks4. By August 11th, 2021, the sound had powered more than 650,000 TikTok videos3. TikToker @climbingwithb00bs pulled around 17 million views with a July 30th climbing-hold video, and Bryce Hall drew 6.7 million on August 3rd roasting his old "train track" eyebrow phase5.

The trend held through the rest of August with thirst-list versions reacting to animated casts like Alvin and the Chipmunks or the Penguins of Madagascar5. The CupcakKe spinoff peaked late that month when TikToker @mistermainer posted their dog seemingly lip-dubbing the audio, close to 30 million views in four days5.

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How to Use This Meme

Line up three or four images or clips against the audio, letting each "I like you, have a cupcake" line roll over the picks a creator wants to boost and the groan hit whatever they're calling out. The template often features past hairstyles, past exes, fictional love interests, or ranked versions of the same character across a franchise.

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