The ‘Symphony’ Dolphin meme has taken over TikTok — here’s why
Are you seeing colorful images of dolphins on your TikTok feed?
If so, you aren’t alone.
A new viral trend on the social media platform involves people posting photos and videos of dolphins with depressing messages to the song “Symphony” by Clean Bandit and Zara Larsson.
The account @heiratet started the trend last month by posting the dolphin imagery played to the hit 2017 song, with the message, “I’m depressed.”
The video has over 1 million views and sparked the ongoing trend.
The account has continued posting the same content with different messages like “I have social anxiety,” “I overthink everything,” “My mental health is gone,” “I want to give up my whole life,” and “I’m scared of people.”
More TikTokers joined in on the trend, to the point where it has taken over the “For You” page on TikTok.
Larsson, 26, eventually caught wind of the trend that features her song and made her own video with the dolphin imagery.
Her post features the message, “f–k” is happening.” It has over 10 million likes and 47K comments.
“I knew she’d love this trend,” one fan commented.
“I love when artists join in on trends from their own songs,” another person wrote.
A different fan said, “I CAN’T BREATHEE SHE KNOWS.”
Larsson also had the dolphin visuals play behind her during one of her recent concerts as she sang “Symphony”, which also went viral on TikTok.
“I hope you realize just how iconic this is,” read one of the fan comments.
“She genuinely is so unserious I love it,” somebody else said.
“Only thing missing is dolphin themed merch!!!!” a third fan wrote.
The dolphin image was created by Christian Riese Lassen and is called ” Enjoy Sunshine.”
“For the past three decades, legendary artist Christian Riese Lassen has been known all over the world for his majestic works of art,” it says on his website.
“His world is a blend of the real and the imaginary, with magnificent underwater scenes with dolphins and other sea animals, as well as seascapes and landscapes of unparalleled beauty and harmony,” the description of Lassen’s works adds.
“Symphony” came out in 2017 as the second single from Clean Bandit’s second studio album, “What Is Love?”
The three-and-a-half minute-long song is considered classical-pop.
Thanks to the TikTok trend, the song shot to number one on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 at the end of August.
