Some people miss the mark so bad that it can't be called anything except a holy freaking airball... here's how TikTokers are using the phrase in slideshows.
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00:00Sometimes in life, like in basketball, we take shots that just completely miss the target.
00:04We're not talking close but no cigar off the backboard shots, we're talking about
00:08holy f***ing airballs. Recently, TikTokers have been sharing about these types of experiences
00:13in a trend that will leave you baffled at just how off some people's aim is.
00:17So how did the holy airball trend start? One of the earliest known uses of the term
00:21holy airball to describe someone shooting their shot in a way that was a very obvious miss
00:26was posted to the r slash zargorian galaxacy subreddit in August 2024.
00:30User literallyerror used the phrase to caption a screenshot from a comment on a girl's photo
00:35reading, are you John? Because I've never seen a girl like this before.
00:38And yikes, yeah, I sort of wish that comment was John Cena so we wouldn't have seen it.
00:43The user also included a photoshopped image of Steph Curry trying to make a shot to earth from
00:47the moon to really illustrate their point. But if you want to get technical about it,
00:50that isn't actually an airball because there's no air in space. The phrase holy airball garnered
00:54viral spread over the following months, especially on TikTok. On December 8th, 2024,
00:59TikToker JerkXGita posted an edit captioned holy airball, showcasing this kid that definitely
01:05regrets taking someone's advice to go for it. The repeated rejections are spliced between clips
01:09of basketball players shooting literal airballs, garnering the video over 4.6 million views in
01:14five months. In May 2025, TikTokers began a slideshow trend set to the song Soul Survivor by GZ,
01:20in which they share anecdotes about times when they or someone else metaphorically missed a shot,
01:25like a painful misunderstanding, downplaying, or other social mistake involving some sort of
01:30incorrect assumption. A lot of the earliest versions of the trend focused on cars, with guys showing
01:34off cars that were nicer than what a girl might have thought. Some users would take an ironic
01:38approach to this, like TikToker VQ Panther, who posted a version showing his Toyota Prius as an
01:44example of a car that the girl missed out on riding around in, garnering over a million views in four days.
01:48As the trend evolved, it started to feature more and more women creators posting about things guys
01:53have incorrectly assumed about them, like this woman who doesn't work at a boutique, or this woman
01:57whose uniform isn't scrubbed. Some versions focused on incorrect predictions about the future,
02:02or on plans that seemingly went very awry.