He gonna skrrt and hit the dab like Wiz Khalifa! He gonna find another girl and he won’t miss ya! You got a boyfriend, bet he doesn’t kiss ya!
Hit or miss, I guess they never miss, huh? Let’s take a deeper look at the song lyrics: Then, it is interpreted by the TikTok user, who creates yet another layer of meaning-making for their viewer to interpret. The first is with the musician and the creation of the lyrics and music and the meaning they are putting into it. When a TikTok user makes a video to the song “Mia Khalifa” there is a twofold meaning-making process going on. “ Nyannyan cosplay hit or miss guess they never miss huh- tiktok”. Videos with that hashtag have collected over 120 million views. The association of the song with the app became even stronger with the #tiktoktest trend, which involves going to a public space (mostly supermarkets and schools) and yelling “Hit or Miss”, a line of “Mia Khalifa” and waiting for a stranger to complete the lyric with “I guess they never miss, huh”, in order to find other TikTokers. Many users copy her image, dress and gestures in their videos. One video in particular by user became viral and became strongly associated with TikTok culture. This song went viral and became a very popular meme on the app, with over 4.7 million videos using the song as of March 2019. “iLOVEFRiDAY – Mia Khalifa (TIK TOK & ROBLOX ANTHEM) ”. Mia Khalifa became a controversial figure after wearing a hijab in a porn video, and the tweet iLOVEFRiDAY was apparently responding to was made to look like Mia Khalifa saying that one of the rappers was disrespectful for smoking in a hijab (Kavner, 2018). For this semiotic analysis of social identities users associate with on TikTok, I used videos which use the song “Mia Khalifa” by iLOVEFRiDAY, a diss rap which was made in response to a fake tweet that was photoshopped into looking like it was a hypocritical statement aimed one of the rappers from the Lebanese-American former pornstar Mia Khalifa.
Over half of TikTok users are between the ages of 13 and 24 (Philips, 2018).īecause the app is very music-oriented, having been merged with the similar Musical.ly in 2018, users can search videos by the song used.
The app hit one billion downloads in February 2019, and that’s not counting android users in China, where the app originated and is known as Douyin (Yeh, 2019). Users upload 15 to 60 second videos, more often than not accompanied by music or sound which is dubbed over the video. That’s right, it’s TikTok, the debatable successor to Vine. Its videos are hitting your Youtube, Instagram, and Twitter feed. A Semiotic Analysis of the use of the song “Mia Khalifa” on TikTok