ABSTRACT
The text on the TikTok video reads “What happens when the people put gen Z in the same room together.” TikTokers first began using “Kiss Me More” to claim ownership over their significant others. One of the big pop hits of Summer 2021 was “Kiss Me More” by Doja Cat featuring SZA, a track on which both artists rap over a bouncy, disco-inflected pop melody. TikTokers first began using “Kiss Me More” to claim ownership over their significant others. The iconography of the limp wrist, however, had already re-emerged as a social media phenomenon in the years before “Kiss Me More” and even before the existence of TikTok. The meme thrives on the pleasure of recognition, as users perform in ways that identify them as members of a community. TikTokers wink at each other, like SZA does in the music video, wordlessly communicating to those in the know.
