- Lizzo posted two TikTok videos featuring "American Horror Story" actor Sarah Paulson.
- The videos showed the duo lip-syncing along to Paulson's "the killer is escaping" line.
Sarah Paulson joined Lizzo to participate in a major TikTok trend based on Paulson's "the killer is escaping" line from "American Horror Story: Asylum.
Lizzo posted a pair of videos featuring the "American Horror Story" actor on Monday, both of which used audio of Paulson herself screaming "Help! He's escaping! The killer is escaping, help me!" The line is from the second season of FX's anthology series "American Horror Story," and in recent months, it's become inescapable on TikTok. Lizzo previously posted a September video featuring the line.
"This one?" Lizzo captioned the first video, in which she and Paulson emphatically lip-sync along to the line, which is one of the popular uses of the line on TikTok. It's amassed 3.4 million likes in less than a day.
"Or this one?" the singer captioned a companion video with 4.5 million likes in which she and Paulson lip-sync along to the audio with minimal energy save from a flick of the eyebrows from Paulson and a well-timed lip-bite from Lizzo.
"The killer is escaping" made its way over to TikTok in July when the TikTok user @horrorcovwn uploaded a clip of the scene from "American Horror Story: Asylum" to the app. Since then, the sound - titled "helllp the killer is ey scape ing" - has been used in over 380,000 videos to date. Insider could not immediately reach the user for comment.
It's since soundtracked a variety of different memes. In August and September, users applied it to humorous videos of people or objects appearing to run away and later, lip-syncing sarcastically along to the line. Later, continuing into October, users posted videos showing themselves sarcastically or minimally lip-syncing along to the line, similar to Paulson and Lizzo's second video.
Lizzo's take on the trend, posted in September, also used that specific TikTok audio. The singer posted a video lip-syncing along to the line while seemingly on the toilet, and captioned the video, "morning poop vibes."
In an Instagram Live last week, Paulson said she was aware that her voice had become a meme on TikTok, although at the time she said that she thought that people who were using the sound - including Lizzo and Billie Eilish - weren't aware that it was her line.
Users were ultimately thrilled to see Paulson take part in the trend alongside Lizzo and flooded the comments of her posts with praise for the duo.
"She's so aware of her memes I CAN'T LMAOOOO," one comment on Lizzo's second video with 246,000 likes reads.
Representatives for Paulson and Lizzo did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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