The content of Possibly in Michigan – where Sharon and Janice are followed by a man wearing different animal masks who they are so threatened by that they end up killing him and eating him – is a dark fantasy delivered in an aesthetic that is legible to these tweens and teens from the filters and themes that repeat on TikTok. Within a month all my mutuals were posting audios and their love for ‘Possibly in Michigan.’’ It quickly spread: ‘after I uploaded the audios TONS of people started using them. How does a video artwork from the 1980s become viral with kids born in the 2000s? Dillard, the sixteen-year-old who created the sound, told Garage’s Tatum Dooley: ‘I love creepy cute things so I fell in love with it’. No no no… silly.’ One user discovered that the original soundtrack was about putting a dog in a microwave: ‘When I figured out what this sound was about. In keeping with the internet’s understanding of Possibly in Michigan as creepy, the ‘oh no no’ sound snippet is used in a number of ill-fated videos of tween girls in scary clown makeup a girl in a school outfit, pale makeup, and a toy gun in her hand image macros where text has been superimposed, such as, ‘Mom: are you high? Me: What? Oh no. So much so that when TikTok videos migrate to other platforms – specifically YouTube and Twitter – it’s as the ‘cringe’ finds of older teenagers and adults, who collect videos of kids being weird online. It’s perfect for lip-synching and dancing and it is enormously popular among teenagers.
#I DUNNO GIRL MEME TV#
It’s simply called ‘oh no no no no no no no no silly.’ Most of the videos are of teenage girls lip-synching from the ‘oh no no’ part through to ‘and they were both found dead’ they are performing one of the most common uses of TikTok, an app with more than 500 million users who make and share short – usually about 15 seconds – videos set to music (or sounds, including short snippets from TV or other TikTok and online videos). There are 23,530 videos on TikTok that use the audio clip from Possibly, originally uploaded this year by a sixteen-year-old girl called Vris Dillard. POSSIBLY IN MICHIGAN (of all things!!!) is a popular TikTok meme I am absolutely losing my mind right now! /ek1gDPeVVY But it exploded, and they were both found dead.’ In the scene, the work’s two protagonists, Sharon and Janice, are trying out perfumes in a mall, and singsong-talk: ‘this one here smells great / which one? / smells like mother’s crazy sister Kate / oh you think so? / it smells so good she couldn’t have been so crazy, I don’t think so / oh, you don’t think so? Well, she put her poodle one time in a microwave oven / to eat it? / oh, no no no no no no silly, to dry it. Almost terrified.’ Shreir shared a screenshot of the text message to Twitter in response to film curator Chris Osborn posting, confused and delighted, a short video taken off the social media app TikTok of two teenage girls miming a song from the second minute of Possibly in Michigan. ‘When Possibly was on the first page of Reddit, it was amazing,’ Condit told Daniella Shreir, editor of feminist film journal Another Gaze over a text message, ‘I was so confused. ‘Oooooh, abandoned house all alone in the woods.’ ‘A baby doll hanging from a tree, did a ghost do dat?’ ‘A photo I took made my eyes red, no logic can explain’.’ Truely creepy in my opinion.’ How_is_this_relevant answered, ‘This sub prefers predictable, cookie-cutter halloween creepy. It is probably because it is a video and they don’t do well on r/creepy. ’ Possibly In Michigan sparked a conversation about what kind of creepiness gets attention: user spider_cereal said, ‘I do not understand why this is not getting more up votes. At first it was funny in a weird way, but then it was really off-putting. It was the most fucking disturbing thing I’ve ever seen. A user called LikeMyMen posted a Youtube excerpt of the work to the subreddit r/creepy, saying: ‘Possibly the creepiest thing I've ever watched.’ The thread it started ended up on the front page of Reddit, with 4000 upvotes and 868 comments including observations like, ‘I watched this entire film in my video art class.
The first time American video artist Cecelia Condit’s 12-minute film Possibly in Michigan(1983) found some online attention was back in 2015. Cecelia Condit, Possibly in Michigan, 1983, film still.
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