The shoulder carry flip is one of the three TikTok trends getting the most new videos today, with couples and friends across the app filming a nine-second swap that ends with the person being carried suddenly on top. The Shoulder Carry trend, set to a sped-up hip-hop hook built around the line “I’m the one”, has climbed TikTok’s daily trend chart for Friday, November 13, alongside the Ba Ba Ba Dance and the Y Entiende Corazón trend.
The move is simple to describe and harder to pull off. One partner carries the other draped across their shoulders and points at the camera, as if to say they are the one in charge. Then they turn away and bend forward, and the carried partner swings up on top, facing the lens and mouthing “I’m the one” — the person being carried ends up the boss. The whole clip runs about nine seconds, and the best versions make the swap look effortless.
From a Parking Garage to 13 Million Views
The version everyone is copying comes from TikTok creator @777emilyyyy, who posted the shoulder carry flip in a parking garage on October 24. That reel had 563,100 views by November 2 and has since climbed to about 785,000 views with more than 40,000 likes, according to trend trackers. An earlier outdoor take with the roles reversed was posted by @pedromoves_ on September 23, but it was the parking-garage reel that turned the move into a format, with CapCut template tutorials teaching it from October 20.
The trend’s second wave arrived this week, when AI templates started dropping the shoulder carry into matching red plaid Christmas pajamas in front of a Christmas tree. A version using the faces of two actors from the TV show Suits has reached 13.5 million views and 1.2 million likes as of November 13, while a Step Brothers version picked up 1.6 million views in its first day. The hashtags behind the sound tell the same story: #imtheone carried 147,794 videos and #imtheonechallenge passed 10,000 videos and 76.2 million views in early November.
Why It Works
Part of the appeal is the reversal. The clip opens with a familiar power pose — one person literally carrying the other — and then flips it in a single swing, so the punchline lands before the nine seconds are up. It also works as a couples format, a friends format and, through the AI templates, a celebrity-face format, which is why it keeps spreading beyond the couples who started it. Like the Ba Ba Ba Dance, which also tops today’s chart, it is built for the feed: short, repeatable and easy to remake with two photos. The Ba Ba Ba Dance tops TikTok’s fastest-rising trends today, while Tate McRae’s Housewife leads TikTok’s sounds surging today.
