TL;DR
- Trends
- “How I Sound Trying to Explain” Versatile Meme Sound
- Views
- 10.8M+ combined views from 3 videos in just 2 weeks.
- Format
- Single clip that exaggerates the “explaining” gesture + “How I explain” text copy + trend-specific sound
- Why It Works
- Relatable, funny meme that most people have experienced and feel the same skeptical reaction from another person.
- Use It When
- You have a relatable quirk, opinion, or product truth that needs a little ✨dramatic interpretation✨.
What is this trend about
Did you ever have a very ridiculous dream, yet very close to your reality? Then, when you tell that dream to your friends, you only get that 🤔🤔🤔 response?
Then, this “How I Sound Trying to Explain” is suitable for you.
Creators lip-sync to a rambling, high-energy monologue about a bizarre dream, while adding text like “How I sound trying to explain ___ to someone who doesn’t get it.”
masonmyerss
original sound - Tokyo Toni
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user028487730 1mo ago
bro get up
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hzinevbzjub 1mo ago
I always have the weirdest dreams istg 😭
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user9282929121 1mo ago
“it was you but it wasn’t you”
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whyandwhen3 1mo ago
no bcz my dreams are all just straight up gore
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e_lkw 1mo ago
I saw that
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abygaillinebarger 1mo ago
last night my cat was a mass murderer
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blankcassettetape 1mo ago
i ALWAYS describe it for my bsf
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songsomi_nusa 1mo ago
i had a dream bbno$ suddenly went albino and they started calling him babynomelanin
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1.0M It doesn’t need to be a dream. It can also be used for the ridiculous moment you encountered in your daily life, such as an almost-death accident, unexpected office affair, etc.
camfant
original sound - Tokyo Toni
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pnixb 4w ago
is it just me or don't dreams seem like AI... js a bunch of random shit happening
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legally_brunette_12 4w ago
had a dream that Strawberry Shortcake shot Thomas Jefferson 💔
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sup3r.secr3tacc5 4w ago
Damn n I was boutta say first✌️
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stridplays 4w ago
I dreamt about needing to eat dinner but being like really really tired so I fell asleep and went to dinner in my dream in my dream but I woke up from that dream and went and ate dinner and said I drempt about eating dinner then i actually woke up and it was morning
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datobocco 4w ago
The type of dream I gotta explain:
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hyunjinlastbraincell_143 4w ago
I dreamed that my sister was drinking underage and disrespecting my dad (I’m an only child 😭). I went to call the police and then I was in a storage room from Among Us. My sister said “kill me” and I accidentally killed her. I think there was no blood tho. Then we were at church 😭. The cops were there asking me how I killed my sister and MY SISTER WAS STANDING NEXT TO ME 😭. Then we went outside the church and my crush and I got kidnapped by Jeffrey Dahmer (I’m a girl and Jeffrey only killed dudes 😭). We were sent to the woods but we escaped and slept in the woods together. Then we were at Walmart and there was a zombie apocalypse. My crush killed them all and then we were at the beach. I can’t swim so I was drowning and my crush saved me. We were talking in the sand but I lowkey don’t remember what we said. Then I was at my house with my dad and mom and my mom brought me Chili’s. It felt so real and I was so hungry in the dream 😭. She brought the food and just when I was gonna take a bite I WOKE UP 🥀
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em_ersonn 4w ago
I had a dream Dolly Parton died the other day..
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dazai.i3i 4w ago
no fr i once dreamed that deku was twilight sparkle,like it was dekus face on twilight sparkles body.
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4.0M 167.2K 1.1M The funny part? The caption can be completely calm while the performance is absolutely losing it. No need for an explanatory caption; an exaggerated performance can carry the joke on its own.
This trend gained 10.3M+ views combined from 3 videos in just 2 weeks.
The formula
To tap into this trend, these are some elements you need to pay attention to:
- relatable thought with “How I sound trying to explain ____”
- chaotic, trend-specific audio with the same line as the text copy
- exaggerated reaction that explains the ridiculous situation you encountered
Because this trend is very simple, the more chaotic the lore and the expression/gesture you make, the better. Try to hook the viewers with these two elements first.
How to use
For creators, you can use this trend to drop a “bomb” for the viewers. Because it begins with chaos, then let it be THAT chaos.
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