Three-panel collage of TikTok 'Rip Me Out the Plastic' trend showing people tearing plastic wrap off a woman's head, off a person by a Rolls-Royce, and off

Rip Me Out The Plastic

2023viral videoclassic

Published October 25, 2026

Rip Me Out The Plastic is a reveal and transition trend set to a line from Latto's 2023 song "Put It On Da Floor," where participants rip through a plastic bag covering the camera or their body as the lyric drops. The format began on Instagram in May 2023 with a Prom outfit reveal and crossed to TikTok within a week, where glam, nail and makeup creators ran it into millions of plays.

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Overview

Participants in Rip Me Out The Plastic hold a thin plastic sheet or bag between themselves and the camera, then tear through it at the exact moment Latto raps "rip me out the plastic I been acting brand new" on "Put It On Da Floor"1. The pulled lyric functions as a cue for a dress, makeup, nail or set reveal, so the beat drop lines up with the big look change. Prom outfits, salon clients and glam-up transformations dominated the earliest wave on Instagram and TikTok2.

Tone across posts stays celebratory and self-complimentary, matching the Barbie-doll "fresh out the packaging" image the lyric suggests, a reading echoed in Urban Dictionary entries that tie the phrase to doll-box aesthetics3. Variations include two-person setups where a friend does the tearing, failed attempts where the plastic refuses to rip, and jokey posts worried about the obvious safety issue of putting a bag over one's head4.

Origin & Background

Platform
Instagram (origin), TikTok (viral spread)
Creator
@jovontapatton
Date
2023

Latto released the official music video for "Put It On Da Floor" on April 24, 2023, with the track including the hook "rip me out the plastic I been acting brand new"1. The reveal format itself appeared on Instagram roughly a month later, when user @jovontapatton posted a video on May 20, 2023, helping a high schooler debut her Prom dress and makeup by tearing a plastic sheet in front of her as the lyric played2.

@jovontapatton's clip gathered thousands of likes before a repost by @theshaderoom pushed it past 300,000 likes within a month, giving the format wider reach outside the original friend group5. Know Your Meme credits that Prom reveal as the first documented use of the lyric as a transition cue5.

How It Spread

By late May 2023, the format had crossed from Instagram to TikTok, where beauty creators drove the biggest numbers. @iamkaylabeauty posted a transition version on May 26, 2023, that passed 2.8 million views and 570,000 likes within a month6. A day later, @mariedababy posted her own take on May 27, 2023, with over 5 million plays and 500,000 likes within a month7.

The trend also produced its own blooper and commentary strain. @famillionaire_family posted a botched attempt on June 4, 2023, where the plastic refused to tear cleanly, pulling more than 7 million views and 900,000 likes8. The next day, @skeyzerrr posted a version captioned "was I the only one that was told as a kid to never but plastic on your head???," calling out the obvious hazard of the setup4.

Parallel versions outside the beauty niche included @ty.funnyfunny and @steyeuh running the lyric over non-glam reveals910, while nail creator @nailzzbyyniahh used it for a client manicure reveal11, showing how the cue traveled across content types rather than staying tied to Prom outfits.

Timeline

2023-04-24

Latto uploads the official music video for "Put It On Da Floor" to YouTube, including the line "rip me out the plastic I been acting brand new."

2023-05-20

Instagram user @jovontapatton posts the Prom dress and makeup reveal that establishes the lyric as a transition cue.

2023-05-22

@theshaderoom reposts @jovontapatton's video, pushing it past 300,000 likes within a month.

2023-05-26

@iamkaylabeauty brings the format to TikTok with a beauty transition that passes 2.8 million views.

2023-05-27

@mariedababy posts a version that passes 5 million plays within a month.

2023-06-04

@famillionaire_family posts a failed-attempt variant that passes 7 million views, opening a blooper strain of the trend.

2023-06-05

@skeyzerrr posts a safety-joke version calling out plastic-over-head warnings.

How to Use This Meme

Creators typically cue up the "rip me out the plastic" lyric from Latto's "Put It On Da Floor," hold a bag or sheet of clear plastic between the camera and the subject, and tear it at the exact moment the line hits. Common conventions include ending on a dress, hair or nail reveal, having a friend do the ripping, or playing a failed rip for comedy.

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