I See Who You Are, You Are My Enemy (TikTok Trend)

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I See Who You Are, You Are My Enemy, also known as the "You Are My Enemy" TikTok Slideshow, refers to a TikTok slideshow trend that uses the song "Enemy" by Tommee Profitt and swipes through photos that pin one character against a supposed enemy. The slideshows end with a photo that shows why the two characters are enemies and is most often a person pitted against an object that's betrayed them before. The trend started in late September 2022 and continued in October 2022.

Origin

On September 26th, 2022, TikToker^[1] vegstar57 posted a dramatic edit that showed Tom Holland's Spider-Man character pitted against his various enemies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The edit used the song "Enemy" by Tommee Profitt, specifically the lyrics, "I see who you are / You are my enemy / My enemy / You are my enemy." Over the course of one month, the video received roughly 4,500 plays and 450 likes (shown below).

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7147849238360149294

On September 30th 2022, TikToker^[2] thememestermaster66 used vegstar57's sound^[3] to show a squirrel pinned against its imagined enemy: the outside unit of an air conditioner called a condenser or heat exchanger. It was the squirrel's imagined enemy due to a viral video of a squirrel pooping while laying on a condensor and the poop flying upwards, which was shown at the end of thememestermaster66's video, earning roughly 9.4 million plays and 434,600 likes in one month (shown below).

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7149379373366267178

Spread

Following thememestermaster66's viral TikTok video, multiple users latched onto the concept, using vegstar57's sound^[3] en masse. Despite thememestermaster66's TikTok being a video, multiple creators thereafter used TikTok's photo slideshow feature instead.

For instance, on October 2nd, 2022, TikToker^[4] __stelita__ posted a slideshow that pinned grass against bindii weeds which are known to stick into people's feet. The slideshow received roughly 146,900 plays and 4,300 likes in four weeks (screenshots shown below, left). On October 4th, 2022, TikToker^[5] papitoyssr posted a slideshow that pinned a squirrel against a pointed fence, showing a gruesome photo of a squirrel's impalement on one at the end. Over the course of four weeks, the slideshow received roughly 15.5 million plays and 931,900 likes (screenshots shown below, right).