Candice Who?

About

Candice Who?, or Candace Who?, refers to a series of memes similar to Joe Mama, Ligma and Deez Nuts in which one person is lured into asking who "Candice" is, the answer being, "Candice dick fit in your mouth?" The joke has appeared online since at least 2017, becoming a trend on TikTok in 2021. Common ways of making people ask who Candice is include saying, "Did you hear Candice died?" or "Can we go to Candice's house?"

Origin

It's unknown when the "Candice Who" joke began, but one of the earliest memes using the joke was uploaded to ME.ME^[1] on January 12th, 2017, with the punchline, "Candice balls fit in your mouth" (shown below).

On November 7th, Redditor u/spartanharp420 posted to /r/GoodFakeTexts^[2] a fake text string featuring a version of the joke, garnering over 320 upvotes in three years (shown below). On July 31st, 2018, Urban Dictionary^[3] user s3odygamer11 defined "Candice" as "a tomfoolery word used to eradicate people from existence," offering the example, "Candice dick fit in yo mouth."

TikTok

On April 2nd, 2021, TikToker @phogangmike uploaded a video tricking a TikTok live streamer into asking who Candice is followed by a cut to black-and-white over slow piano music, ending the video before the punchline. The video gained over 59,000 views in a month. Phogangmike continued to upload videos tricking people into asking about Candice over the course of the month with an upload on April 13th gaining over 507,000 views in a month (all videos deleted, reupload shown below).

Spread

Around April 14th, 2021, more TikTokers began uploading videos in which they bait a person into asking who Candice is and then dramatically end the video before saying the punchline, often smiling into the camera or mimicking Trollface afterwards, sometimes including an image of Trollge. For example, on that date, both TikTokers^[4][5] @poloboy (shown below) and @inhyuman (now deleted) posted videos tricking someone into asking who Candice is, garnering over 2.6 million and 424,000 views respectively in roughly a month (example shown below).

On April 15th, YouTuber FlickR uploaded a similar video in which someone says, "Candice died last week," in an online game lobby, inspiring someone to ask, "who's Candice?" followed by the same Trollge face, garnering over 13,800 views in a comparable span of time (shown below).

The trend spread across TikTok over the course of the month, resulting in a number of viral videos. On April 25th, Jordy2d posted a video to TikTok^[8] in which he's tricked into asking who Candice is, garnering over 2.3 million views in two weeks. The video was also uploaded to YouTube that day, garnering over 2.8 million views in the same span of time (shown below).

On May 3rd, HITC^[6] published an article on the trend. On the same date, TikToker @ehmyr posted a video tricking his girlfriend into asking who Candice is, garnering over 9.6 million views in a week (shown below). On May 5th, @phogangmike posted a video tricking TikToker @Jillzfoodz_ into asking about Candice, garnering over 11 million views in five days (now deleted). On May 6th, PopBuzz^[7] published an article on the trend.

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