2020·Short-form and streams·funny
M to the B
This Moment began as a post on social media, not as a video upload. Originally published on TikTok.
- SourceNot an upload originally
- MediaPlayable from the source
The most-liked video on TikTok is ten seconds of a face moving to a Blackpool grime track.
What this was
Bella Poarch, filmed from the chin up, bobs her head and mouths along to Millie B's "M to the B" — a 2019 diss track from Blackpool, England — pulling a sequence of exaggerated expressions. It lasts under ten seconds and nothing else happens in it. Posted in August 2020, it became the most-liked video on the platform.
It first appeared in 2020, during short-form and streams. A surviving copy is on YouTube.
It is the definitive artefact of what TikTok rewarded in 2020: no premise, no punchline, no production, and total watchability on a loop. It also carried a British regional grime record to a worldwide audience that had no idea what Blackpool was, which is a route to global distribution no record label could have designed.
Poarch signed with Warner Records within a year and released charting singles, becoming one of the first creators to convert a single short video into a recording career. Millie B's track found an audience years after release. The video remains the most-liked on TikTok.
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What we knowWhere it came from
There is no original upload to identify: this Moment did not begin as one. What it began as is recorded here, and what is shown is a later copy.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first publication of this Moment, because the first publication was not an upload. This Moment began as a post on social media, not as a video upload. Originally published on TikTok.
Created by Millie Bracewell. Established by research, not by who posted the copy shown here.
- What happens
- Bella Poarch, filmed from the chin up, bobs her head and mouths along to Millie B's "M to the B" — a 2019 diss track from Blackpool, England — pulling a sequence of exaggerated expressions. It lasts under ten seconds and nothing else happens in it. Posted in August 2020, it became the most-liked video on the platform.
- Where
- Known on YouTube.
Other copies the index knows about. None is claimed to be the original.
- YouTube not playable