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Meme Status Confirmed Type: Copypasta, Slang Year 2018 Origin Reddit Tags sex, reddit, /r/drugs, pumpkineater69, straightpipedkia, 116rip, xvaeyr Additional References Reddit Urban Dictionary

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Clapping Cheeks is a slang term for sex that spread on Reddit's /r/drugs after a post ended with a user's mother telling him and his friend "I better not hear no clapping cheeks!" After the post, other users posted fictional drug stories featuring "clapping cheeks" as a bait-and-switch copypasta similar to memes such as The Undertaker Threw Mankind Off Hell In a Cell and Bel-Air.

Origin

On September 10th, user pumpkineater69 posted a story to Reddit's /r/drugs about how his mom thought he and his friend were having sex in a car while on acid.[1] While sitting in a car, the user's mother comes up to the window and says, "I better not hear no cheeks clapping tonight." The post gained over 4,000 points.

So, some weeks ago my friend and I decided to do LSD, and so we did. During the night around 4am my friend and I went outside to let the dog out and to look at the thunderstorm and it started pouring rain so we got into my friends car. We sat in there and watched the rain, smoked a cigarette, and we saw some random ass dude come out of nowhere and it freaked us out. Anyways. His mom came out and yelled at us to get inside and we got out and it was so damn awkward because she knew we were on something but we denied it. The other day I went and stayed at my friends again and he told me his mom thinks him and I are gay together and thought we were having sex in the car. Keep in mind, i'm a guy, my friends a guy, are we are straight asf. And i'm just sitting there in his room watching a movie and his fucking mom comes by his door, looks at me, and says "I better not hear no cheeks clapping tonight" and proceeded to make fun of my friend and I. Just thought I would share.

Spread

The story was a quick hit on the subreddit, and stories featuring the phrase "clapping cheeks" began being posted in the subreddit. For example, straightpipedkia[2] posted a parody of the original post by telling it from the mother's perspective, gaining over 1,600 points. Other users took the approach of spreading the meme through a bait-and-switch copypasta, telling a long story before revealing the "clapping cheeks" punchline. For example, one of the most popular copypastas posted by Xvaeyr purports to tell of a drug experience in a ghost town before ending with "I knew in the deepest part of my heart that the thunderous clapping, was cheeks." The post gained over 800 points in 13 hours.[3] Another by 116rip posted a parody from the "random ass dude"'s perspective in the original post, gaining over 520 points.[4] The spread of the phrase was inquired about in an /r/OutOfTheLoop[5] post on September 12th.

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[1] Reddit – Friends Mom Thought My Straight Friend And I (also straight) Were Fucking In A Car On Acid.

[2] Reddit – Caught my son and his friend in my sons car at 4 A.M, i think they were clapping cheeks, what were they on?

[3] Reddit – Trip Report 200ug in a ghost town

[4] Reddit – Tripped solo today, not sure what's real

[5] Reddit – Whats going on with clapping cheeks stories on r/drugs?

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