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New hilarious social media trend 'Dubsmash' spreads to Singapore

Screengrab of Dubsmash clip posted on Instagram. Taken from rfyan's account.

By now, you might have noticed your social feeds are getting packed with short clips of your friends lip-syncing to famous lines by celebrities.

If you’re starting to get annoyed by these hilarious clips, then brace yourselves for more as the Dubsmash trend appears to be taking off in Singapore.

Here’s what you need to know about the new social phenomenon:

Dubsmash is a mobile app launched in November 2014, which basically allows users to lip-sync to recordings of famous voices available from the app’s library. Users can video-record their dubs and then share it to their friends on other social media platforms.

Since its launch, the German app has garnered over 20 million users across 192 countries, according to its website. On Instagram alone, the total number of clips with the hashtag, #dubsmash, has reached 1.6 million clips.

In Singapore at least, many “Dubsmashers” have been sharing them on the platform.

Here are some of our favourite Singapore Dubs: