Nyannyancosplay / Hit or Miss

About
Nyannyancosplay is a cosplayer known for creating lip dub videos on the video-sharing application TikTok. In September 2018, Nyannyancosplay gained much notoriety online for a video in which she lip syncs a portion of the diss track “Mia Khalifa” by iLOVEFRIDAY.
History
On March 15th, 2017, Nyannyancosplay uploaded her first video to TikTok, which included a duet with user @tennant_490. As of late October 2018, her TikTok name has been changed to @Kat.
“Hit or Miss” TikTok Video
On September 10th, 2018, Nyannyancosplay uploaded a lip dub video featuring part of the diss track “Mia Khalifa” by ILOVEFRIDAY with the message “Hit or miss? ” to TikTok. On October 3rd, the video was reuploaded by YouTuber White Rationalist (shown below). On October 14th, the video was reposted by Twitter user @EthicalChad.
The following day, YouTuber Tomentos uploaded an edit of the video included other footage of Nyannyancosplay dancing (shown below, left). On October 21st, YouTuber Bob uploaded a compilation of Nyannyancosplay videos (shown below, right).
On October 27th, Lushsux posted a photograph of a mural of Nyannyancosplay on both Instagram and Twitter along with an emojipasta of the song’s lyrics (shown below).

“
Hit
or miss
I guess
they
never
miss, huh
? You
got
a boyfriend
, I bet
he
doesn’t
kiss
ya
mwah
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He
gon’ find
another girl
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and he
won’t
miss
ya
He
gon’
skrrt and hit
the dab
like
Wiz
Khalifa
”
I Guess She Took the Kids Parody
On October 31st, 2018, Facebook user Chicken Dad posted parodied lyrics of “Hit or Miss” (shown below). The post gained 576 reacts, 215 Comments and 666 Shares in three months.

On November 17th, YouTuber Thane uploaded an animated depiction of the “I Guess She Took the Kids Parody” which gained 264,800 views within two months (shown below, left). In the meantime TikTok users continued to use these alternative lyrics. On December 12th, YouTuber Preadator360 uploaded a TikTok video of a person dancing to the “I Guess She Took the Kids Parody” which gained 130,250 views within a month (shown below, right).
TikTok Test
On December 18, 2018, Twitter user and comedy producer, Reed Kavner, tweeted an early example of the TikTok Test, later calling it the TikTok community’s “handshake” (shown below).
Fast forward to December 5. The “hit or miss” lyric had become so ubiquitous in the TikTok community that user itsstomahs thought he could use it as a verbal secret handshake to detect if he was in the presence of other TikTokers IRL, like in Marshalls: https://t.co/0n7mL4NYxG
— Reed Kavner (@reedkavner) December 18, 2018
On December 28th, 2018 YouTuber TikTok Trends uploaded a video entitled “Hit or Miss” Challenge TikTok Compilation” featuring people participating in the TikTok Test to see if any other individuals around them know to answer the question, “hit or miss” by answering “I guess they never miss huh?” (shown below).
Interview
On January 6th, 2019, YouTuber CDawgVA uploaded an interview with Nyannyancosplay (shown below).
In the interview, she discussed the popularity of the “Hit or Miss” video along with her reactions to online fame and bullying. She reveals future plans to upload gaming videos to Twitch and more cosplay videos to YouTube.
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