Frog Blinking: How to Do It & Why It's So Popular on TikTok

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Plus, more online "blinking trends" to challenge your eyelids

Co-authored by Tobi Nwodo and Hunter Rising

Last Updated: September 28, 2025 Fact Checked

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Frog Blink Tutorial

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What does frog blinking mean?

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TikTok Popularity

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More Blinking Trends

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Why do frogs blink?

If you’ve scrolled TikTok long enough, you may see people attempting to do a “frog blink” with their eyes. This simple trend has people blinking one eye at a time to imitate how a frog looks, and it’s really easy to do with a little bit of practice. Keep reading, and we’ll walk you through how to do a frog blink, what it means, and how to do other similar blinking trends you see on TikTok!

How to Blink Like a Frog

Keep your face relaxed and expressionless, then slowly close your eyes one at a time without moving your face. Open your first eye completely before opening your second eye to complete the frog blink. The frog blink is part of a popular TikTok trend where users film themselves doing the blink for laughs.

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Frog Blink Tutorial

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Blink your eyes one at a time, leaving them both briefly closed together. Frog blinking is pretty simple as long as you can wink with both of your eyes. The real trick to frog blinking smoothly is keeping the other parts of your face relaxed so they don’t move or twitch while you’re doing it.^{[1]
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Expert Interview} To frog blink properly, follow these steps:
- Relax your face so you look expressionless.
- Close one of your eyes.
- Close your other eye.
- Open your first eye.
- Open your second eye.
- To see what a frog blink looks like, check out this TikTok from creator @thefinaleliza.
- Tip: Practice in front of a mirror or record yourself while you practice so you can see if you’re doing a frog blink correctly.
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Film your own frog blink video to share on TikTok. Once you’ve mastered doing the frog blink, hop on the trend and show off your skills with the world! Share the video with your friends and family and challenge them to try it too.^{[2]
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- Try stitching your video with another TikTok you find on the “frog blink” trending page to help you get more views and go viral.

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What does frog blinking mean?

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Frog blinking shows that you’re losing interest. If someone’s talking about something you don’t particularly care about or if you’re just bored, then a frog blink is a perfect response. The expressionless look and lazily blinking your eyes one at a time really shows that you’re not listening or absorbing what someone is telling you.
- Frog blinking also appears in popular cartoons like Hazbin Hotel when characters are confused or tuning out a conversation.
- Tiktok user @okaydudegotripoveraknife shared a video showing that they use frog blinking as a way to scare people away from them.
For some people, frog blinking is simply an endearing and quirky trick they can do. If a person is gushing about something they’re passionate about, looking at them and frog blinking can be a cute way to show that you might not understand what they’re saying, but you still love that they’re opening up to you.

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Where did frog blinking come from?

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Frog blinking became popular through a viral TikTok trend. Even though it’s not clear exactly which one started the frog blinking trend, videos started appearing on TikTok in the early 2020s where people attempt to frog blink. Since then, it’s only become more of a trend as people try to see if they can frog blink correctly.
- Many frog blinking TikTok videos use a sound originally posted by @tyler.renee and include the caption “I know the frog blink hates to see me coming.”^{[3]
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- TikTok user @nirami1 posted a frog blink animation that may have made the trend popular again.
- One popular TikTok video from @reilly_flowerz shows her frog blinking, and she says she does it when she makes eye contact with strangers.

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More TikTok Blinking Trends

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Reptile blink To do a reptile blink, quickly look upward as you do a normal blink. When you open your eyes, look straight ahead again. This gives you a creepy look like your eyes are rolling back in your head as you’re blinking so you look like a lizard or reptile.
- To see an example of a reptile blink, check out this TikTok from @r4g_do11.
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Ghost blink Ghost blinking was made popular by the show Wednesday because Jenna Ortega’s character barely blinks when she’s on screen. To ghost blink, all you have to do is stare straight ahead and slightly squint your eyes. According to TikTok users, this tricks your brain into thinking you blinked so you can keep your eyes open for a long time.^{[4]
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- For an example of a ghost blink, check out this explanation from Connor Komrosky on YouTube.
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Doll eye blink/doll wink For a doll eye wink, keep your face relaxed, and slowly close and open one of your eyes. Once you can do it smoothly without changing your expression, you’ll look like a doll that opens its eyes.
- To see what a doll wink looks like and hear how it’s done, watch this TikTok from @whitneymb.
- Doll eye winks became a popular trend when Katy Perry started doing it during her shows in 2023. Since then, people have been trying to recreate it in their own videos.^{[5]
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Spider blink Even though spiders don’t actually blink their eyes, the viral spider blink has started getting popular on TikTok. Instead of opening and closing your eyes, try to squint and flex the muscles in the corners of your eyes. When you do it correctly, your eyelids will move slightly sideways toward your nose.
- Watch this video from @itss.not.marii on TikTok for an amazing example of the spider blink.

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Why do frogs blink?

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Frogs swallow their food whole, but they don’t have the same throat muscles that humans do. As they’re eating, frogs blink and pull their eyes downward into their skulls to push the food further down into their stomachs.^{[6]
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Blinking is a way for frogs to attract mates. In recent studies, scientists have found that when female frogs find a potential mate, they either blink or wink at the male frog as a way to “flirt” with them. After doing more experiments, scientists even found that male frogs are more likely to approach females that blink or wink at them.^{[7]
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- These studies were mostly done on concave-eared torrent frogs in China, so blinking may mean something different to other species.