We Gone Eat / Enjoy My Leftovers

About

We Gone Eat or Enjoy My Leftovers refers to a TikTok lip dub trend set to the song "We Gone Eat" by T-Speed and 5upamanHoe where users lip sync to the lyrics of the song while a caption where a third party tells them to enjoy their leftovers shows on screen, followed by the user eating food or mock eating food to the lyrics "we gone eat," as if gladly accepting the leftovers. The trend became popular in September 2022 and gained further popularity that October.

Origin

On May 3rd, 2014, rapper and YouTuber^[1] T-Speed Bihh posted the audio for his song with 4upamanHoe titled, "We Gone Eat" (shown below). The video garnered over 823,000 views in eight years.

On September 19th, 2022, TikToker^[2] @theemyanicole posted a video over the caption "have fun w my leftovers," as if spoken by a third party, where she eats a chicken nugget over the repeated lyric "we gon' eat," garnering over 1.3 million views in a month (shown below). In the video's case, "leftovers" is used in reference to someone the user is dating that the unknown third party dated once, with eating the food meaning she happily accepts the leftovers.

Spread

On September 23rd, 2022, TikToker^[3] @staceyyrosado posted a video following the trend where she eats a chicken wing in one bite, garnering over 4.5 million views in three weeks (shown below).

The trend became increasingly popular in early October. For example, on October 4th, TikToker^[4] @senaya.2 posted a video following the trend, garnering over 1.4 million views in six days (shown below, left). On October 6th, TikToker^[5] @ash.444.ley posted a video following the trend, garnering over 1.1 million views in four days (shown below, right). On October 9th, YouTuber^[6] See Tok posted a compilation of the trend, garnering over 11,000 views in a day.

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