Sticking Out Your Tongue for the Picture — Three-panel collage of young women in TikTok videos, two sticking out their tongues for the camera

Sticking Out Your Tongue for the Picture

2021viral songdeclining

Published November 13, 2026

Sticking Out Your Tongue for the Picture / "ecstacy" by SUICIDAL-IDOL is a July 2021 SoundCloud song whose hook lyric found its audience two years late when a slowed edit started spreading on TikTok in mid-2023. By October 2023 the sound powered a lip dub trend with more than 490,000 uses and birthed the parody "Sticking Out Your Gyat for the Rizzler."

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Overview

Videos using the sound typically follow a lip dub format, with the TikToker mouthing the slowed lyric straight to camera while cutting between posed outfit shots, makeup reveals, or aesthetic photo frames. @ellielobio's late-September 2023 upload sits among the biggest early examples of the lip dub format, reaching 11.8 million views within two weeks6.

The hook that gives the trend its name lands on the "sticking out your tongue for the picture" lyric as the signature drop, which fit the hazy, slowed-and-reverbed edit style common on 2023 TikTok1. TikToker @r7ptor later uploaded the song at its original full speed, letting creators run the same lip dub idea without the slowed pitch8.

Origin & Background

Platform
SoundCloud (song) / TikTok (viral spread)
Creator
SUICIDAL-IDOL
Date
2021

SUICIDAL-IDOL uploaded "ecstacy" to SoundCloud on July 19, 2021, with production credited to buhguul1. A slowed-down flip of the track began circulating on TikTok soon after. On August 31, 2021, Russian TikToker @kaidalooov.i posted an early clip set to the slowed version, which collected more than 220,000 likes over the next two years3. YouTuber trynabeus uploaded a slowed edit to YouTube on November 6, 2021, which drew over 1.6 million views4.

How It Spread

The slowed audio stayed quiet on TikTok until mid-2023, when users rediscovered it and launched a lip dub trend. By October 2023 the slowed version accounted for more than 238,000 uploads across TikTok9. On September 10, 2023, TikToker @shamelessistherapy uploaded a compilation of clips from the U.S. drama Shameless set to the slowed audio, naming the sound "why r so many hot people using this"5.

Two late-September 2023 uploads drove the biggest numbers for the lip dub format. @ellielobio's September 25 video reached 11.8 million views within two weeks6, and @riwww's September 28 clip hit roughly 19 million views in the same span7. On the same day as @ellielobio's post, @r7ptor uploaded the song at its original full speed to TikTok, which collected about 25,000 uses in two weeks8. @shamelessistherapy's named sound alone logged over 490,000 uses by October 10, 20239.

In October 2023, a parody titled "Sticking Out Your Gyat for the Rizzler" branched off from the format, swapping the lyric for Gen Alpha brainrot slang and going viral in its own right9.

Timeline

2021-07-19

SUICIDAL-IDOL releases "ecstacy" on SoundCloud, produced by buhguul.

2021-08-31

Russian TikToker @kaidalooov.i posts an early video set to the slowed version.

2021-11-06

YouTuber trynabeus uploads a slowed edit that later reaches 1.6 million views.

2023-07

The slowed audio starts going viral on TikTok, fueling a lip dub trend.

2023-09-10

@shamelessistherapy's Shameless compilation names the sound "why r so many hot people using this."

2023-09-25

@ellielobio posts a breakout lip dub; @r7ptor uploads the original full-speed version.

2023-09-28

@riwww's lip dub reaches roughly 19 million views within two weeks.

2023-10

Parody "Sticking Out Your Gyat for the Rizzler" branches off and goes viral.

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