Welcome to This Week in TikTok Music, where we dig into trends, viral songs, and whatever else the algorithm has decided is sticky enough to camp out on your feed. With more people discovering music through TikTok than ever before, and viral clips capable of pulling an obscure ’90s song straight back onto the Billboard Hot 100, it feels worth pausing to ask the simple question: what the hell is going on over there?

Everybody do it wit me hit the sealion

10, maybe 20 years from now we’ll look back on TikTok the same way we look back on Vine, Myspace, or even Blogger: just a handful of posts, trends, and overall vibes that somehow defined an entire era.

With that being said… I’m not entirely convinced the “everybody do it wit me hit da sea lion” posts are making the legacy cut.

Nothing against the song. Yuno Miles is doing exactly what he does best, taking something absurd, catchy, and a little chaotic and making it stick. His track “Sea Lion Rap” is low key a perfect example of that. That 8-second intro bar (“everybody do it wit me hit the sea lion”) lives rent free, and the fact there’s an actual sea lion bark baked into the beat? C’mon, that’s kind of fun. But then TikTok did TikTok things.

Now we’ve got the masses “hitting” the sea lion, cutting to that bow pose (or Dhanurasana in Sanskrit… for the heads), pulsing up and down like their life depends on it. It’s one of those trends where you’re like “ok this is kinda funny” the first time – and then your algorithm decides it hates you and that you need to see it 400 more times.

Watching people hit said sea lion can be retired from my feed right quick.

@yunomilesone #sealion #yunomiles #fyppppppppppppppppppppppp #fyp #fypdongggggggg ♬ No Sound - Melissa Colorado

What’s wild though is how far it’s gone. Not only has the snippet taken over, but there’s already merch for the dang thing. We’re talking full-on “hit the sea lion” hoodies and the whole nine. That’s when you know it’s crossed into real internet moment territory.

@skyyjade

hit the sea lion 🦭

♬ original sound - Yeizephyr😼

Creators like @skyyjade (7.9M Followers) and his crew are pulling in crazy numbers with it, and yeah, there’s an obvious, self-aware ridiculousness to the whole thing, but people are hooked. Myself included, apparently, because here I am talking about it and gently perpetuating the cycle.

End of the day, the trend might burn out (please), but the song itself? It’s got legs. Yuno Miles once again turned a weird little idea into something that actually moves. Bonus points if you watch a bunch of these “hit the sea lion” videos all the way through. We’ll be the few that remember this one in 2046.

@uncelizzle made the gang do it#unemployed #sealions #springbreak ♬ original sound - maddih

@toyotaofboerne Do the sea lion 🦭 #trend #fyp #viral #sealion #comedy ♬ original sound - nosir255

@hanvmain HIT THE SEA LION 🦭 #yunomiles #sealion #fyp ♬ original sound - Yeizephyr😼

@the_nickdarnell wig was a paid actor #fyp #viral #funny ♬ original sound - Yeizephyr😼

@officialnickkosir No waaayyyy 😭🦭 @Howie Mandel #sealion #challenge #trend #funny #meme @America’s Got Talent @AGTAuditions ♬ Sea Lion - Yuno Miles

Sidenote, shoutout to Yuno Miles and our very own Anthony Fantano for their recent collab track “Take Me Back”. That shit goes hard!

Hope you enjoyed this installment of This Week in TikTok Music. Go check out some "hit the sealion" clips for yourself. Just a fair warning: once you do, they will live in your feed forever. The algorithm is relentless. Enjoy!