# Leave Me Alone Akira Leave Me Alone Akira is a video meme built from a scene in the 1988 anime film Akira where Tetsuo Shima grips his head and screams the English dub line while suffering psychic flashes. First posted to YouTube in December 2022, it broke out on TikTok in May 2023 as a sound used to caption anything the poster found emotionally unbearable. ## Overview Leave Me Alone Akira is a video edit that loops the moment in the 1988 anime film Akira where Tetsuo Shima grabs his head, screams and shouts the English dub line "Leave me alone!" while psychic visions strobe around him[3]. In the original meme cut, those flashes are swapped for other characters or image macros, so Tetsuo appears to be tortured by whatever the editor wants to mock[1]. The format works because Tetsuo's contorted face and the drawn-out scream read as pure, wordless suffering[3]. Once the audio was uploaded to TikTok, creators stopped bothering with visual edits at all and just paired the sound with text overlays describing the most trivial or humiliating scenarios they could think of[2]. ## How It Spread The format started jumping platforms in April 2023. On April 3, a Tumblr user reposted a moldy version of Aeinzalot's edit and picked up around 3,000 notes within a month[3]. A week later, on April 10, YouTuber BigMouse re-uploaded the meme and hit roughly 10,000 views in the same window[3]. TikTok caught it next, with @matcha.rat.26 posting an April 18 iteration that replaced the flashes with Miku Nakano from The Quintessential Quintuplets, drawing about 17,800 plays[3]. The breakout came from TikToker @mitcherru, who on April 24, 2023 posted a version using the Goku Xenoverse 2 Stare and pulled roughly 797,700 plays and 88,600 likes in three weeks[3]. Their upload's audio became the actual sound other creators grabbed. On May 3, 2023, TikToker @user121110987654321007 used it over a caption about "fumbling a bad bitch" and racked up around 1.3 million plays and 304,200 likes in ten days[3]. Within three weeks of @mitcherru's post, more than 9,300 TikToks were using the sound[3]. The trend also bounced back to YouTube, where user kmlkmljkl uploaded a May 12, 2023 cut that used the original Japanese-language audio from Akira instead of the dub, gaining roughly 30,000 views and 2,500 likes in three days[3]. ## How to Use The TikTok version typically pairs @mitcherru's sound with a text overlay describing something the poster finds unbearable, embarrassing or agonizing, then lets Tetsuo's scream do the emotional heavy lifting[3]. The older video-edit version is usually built by keeping the Akira footage and replacing the psychic-vision inserts with whatever character, image macro or screenshot the editor wants to frame as the source of the pain[1]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Leave Me Alone Akira? It's a video meme built from a scene in the 1988 anime Akira where Tetsuo Shima grabs his head and screams "Leave me alone!" while psychic visions flash around him, later turned into a widely used TikTok sound[3]. ### Where did Leave Me Alone Akira come from? The first known edit was posted to YouTube on December 23, 2022 by Aeinzalot, using the English dub of Akira with a purple Handheld Pupper character replacing Tetsuo's visions[1]. ### What does Leave Me Alone Akira mean? It's used to express exaggerated agony or overstimulation, with the flashing visions or a text caption standing in for whatever situation is tormenting the poster[3]. ### How do you use Leave Me Alone Akira? On TikTok, creators typically pair @mitcherru's April 24, 2023 audio with a text overlay describing an embarrassing or painful scenario[3]. In the older format, editors swap Tetsuo's psychic flashes for other characters or images[1]. ### Is Leave Me Alone Akira still popular? It broke out in May 2023, when @mitcherru's sound crossed 9,300 uses on TikTok within about three weeks, and became one of the recognizable anime-sourced reaction sounds of that period[3]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d-WI_BvV0U]() 2. [https://www.tiktok.com/@mitcherru]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/leave-me-alone-akira]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/leave-me-alone-akira Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library