Nyannyancosplay / Hit or Miss

About

Nyannyancosplay is a cosplayer known for creating lip dub videos on the video-sharing application TikTok. In September 2018, Nyannyancosplay gained much notoriety online for a video in which she lip syncs a portion of the diss track "Mia Khalifa" by iLOVEFRIDAY.

History

On March 15th, 2017, Nyannyancosplay^[1] uploaded her first video to TikTok, which included a duet with user @tennant_490.

"Hit or Miss" TikTok Video

On September 10th, 2018, Nyannyancosplay uploaded a lip dub video featuring part of the diss track "Mia Khalifa" by ILOVEFRIDAY with the message "Hit or miss? 😎💕" to TikTok.^[2] On October 3rd, the video was reuploaded by YouTuber White Rationalist. On October 14th, the video was reposted by Twitter user @EthicalChad.

The following day, YouTuber Tomentos uploaded an edit of the video included other footage of Nyannyancosplay dancing (shown below, left). On October 21st, YouTuber Bob uploaded a compilation of Nyannyancosplay videos (shown below, right).

On October 27th, Lushsux posted a photograph of a mural of Nyannyancosplay on both Instagram^[4] and Twitter^[3] along with an emojipasta of the song's lyrics (shown below).

"🤕Hit 👊 or miss😳 I guess 🤔they 👉never ❌ miss, huh 😕😕? You 🙌got 🤪a boyfriend😍, I bet 🎰😶he 😨doesn't 👎kiss 😘😘 ya🤭 mwah💖 😻He 🧐gon' find 🔍🔍 another girl 👶 🤩and he 😮won't😤 miss👌 ya🙀 He 🤤gon' 😲skrrt and hit 👊👊 the dab😎 like 😄😄 Wiz 🤠Khalifa🤑"

I Guess She Took the Kids Parody

On October 31st, 2018, Facebook user Chicken Dad posted^[6] parodied lyrics of "Hit or Miss" (shown below). The post gained 576 reacts, 215 Comments and 666 Shares in three months.

On December 12th, 2018, YouTuber^[7] @lilah2597 uploaded a lyric video of the "I Guess She Took the Kids Parody" which gained over 167,600 views within four years (shown below, left). In the meantime, TikTok users continued to use these alternative lyrics. On November 17th, YouTuber^[8] @ostekakeutenost1308 uploaded a TikTok video of a person singing the "I Guess She Took the Kids Parody" which gained more than 68,000 views within four years (shown below, right).

TikTok Test / Hit Or Miss Challenge

On December 18, 2018, Twitter user and comedy producer, Reed Kavner, tweeted^[5] an early example of the TikTok Test, later calling it the TikTok community's "handshake" (shown below).

Fast forward to December 5. The "hit or miss" lyric had become so ubiquitous in the TikTok community that user itsstomahs thought he could use it as a verbal secret handshake to detect if he was in the presence of other TikTokers IRL, like in Marshalls: https://t.co/0n7mL4NYxG

— Reed Kavner (@reedkavner) December 18, 2018

On December 28th, 2018 YouTuber TikTok Trends uploaded a video entitled "'Hit or Miss' Challenge TikTok Compilation" featuring people participating in the TikTok Test to see if any other individuals around them know to answer the question, "hit or miss" by answering "I guess they never miss huh?" (similar video below).

Interview

On January 6th, 2019, YouTuber CDawgVA uploaded an interview with Nyannyancosplay (shown below).
In the interview, she discussed the popularity of the "Hit or Miss" video along with her reactions to online fame and bullying. She reveals future plans to upload gaming videos to Twitch and more cosplay videos to YouTube.

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