Once You Go Black You Never Go Back (TikTok Trend)

Once You Go Black You Never Go Back, continued This Was Just a Saying to Me Until I Experienced It Myself Firsthand, refers to a Tik Toksound and trend that uses a text-to-speech audio from a video posted by Somali restaurant owner Mohammad Abdi for the London-based Damal Restaurant in 2023. The sound gained usage from women wholip-dubbedit, attesting that they dated or slept with a Black man and "never went back" to a man of another race. The trend gained cross-platform attention on Twitterin July 2023, as well as notable usage from Black men on Tik Tok.