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Why The Fuck You Lyin'

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Why The F**k You Lyin’ is a Vine video of a young black man performing a short homemade song about liars in his backyard to the tune of R&B band Next’s hit single Too Close. The video immediately became viral within the site, leading to many parodies.

Origin

On August 29th, 2015, Vine user Nicholas Fraser uploaded a short clip titled “That one person that’s sways lying on what they own”[1], featuring himself listening to another person allegedly telling a lie. It then cut to Fraser, dancing in a backyard while singing “Why the f*ck you lyin’?” to the tune of hit single Too Close from American R&B band Next (full clip uploaded to YouTube shown below). As of September 7th, 2015, the Vine has been looped over 1 million times and gained over 31 000 likes.

Lyrics

Why the fuck you lyin’?
Why you always lyin’?
Hmmmmm Oh my god
Stop fucking lying!

Spread

The day later, on August 30th, Fraser posted the music bit to Vine[2], titled “When she say(sic) she got a cute friend for you”, which has been looped over 21 million times and gained over 344 000 likes as of September 7th 2015.
As early as August 31th, Complex staff writer Angel Diaz published an article about the clip[3], stating that the full version was also uploaded to his Instagram account where it gained about 30 000 likes and 11 000 comments as of September 7th 2015[4].
Fraser’s newborn fame reached Buzzfeed on September 3rd[5] and The Guardian on September 4th[6]. As a matter of fact, Complex made a followup article on September 3rd featuring an interview with the Vine star[7].

Parodies

Various parody clips soon emerged mixing the clip with various other clips featuring people allegedly telling lies (YouTube compilation shown below). They began to spread on Vine with the hashtags #WhyTheFuckYouLying and its derivatives #WhyTheFuckYouLyin and #WhyYouALwaysLyin[8].

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