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Those who know 

In internet/brainrot lingo, a "those who know" refers to a shortform content genre of videos or images that begin or show an innocent situation, but end with a weird, horryifing or abstract ending with minimal context. This genre is usually coupled with a text saying "Those who know", followed by emoijs or pictures of an altered trollface(usually coupled with a phonk song or disturbing music), implying that those who know the context behind the video are disturbed and know the truth, while those who don't are left blissfully ignorant. This type of video has been used in ironic internet humour to exaggurate things like "still water"(or replacing the text with more humourous text like "Thise who shit in they hands and throw it at people") with it being combined with other brainrot phrases like "balkan rage" and "trollface crashout". Before large scale ironic humour on brainrot, "those who know" was usually tied to a picture of mr incredible becoming uncanny under an image.
Example(normal use):
《What is he holding?》
*Shows a fake piece of the oceangate submarine*
《Those who know: ☠️💀》
Examole 2(brainrot):
《Me eating lunchly:》
*drops the food in a bottle of prime.*
《Still prime, those who know: ☠️💀》
Those who know by TomTaylorReal? October 26, 2024

Those who know 

a term used by braindead Gen Alpha kids to show the absolute monumental trauma given by understanding the context of a image or clip.

Often it displays a regular trollface and then a disfigured, dark trollface. The dark trollface is to show 'those who know'.
A video showing a man hiking up mount fuji

Text: Those who don't know: 😀 Those who know: 💀💀☠️☠️☠️☠️
Those who know by Ralbr December 26, 2024

Those Who Know 

even though most people think the popular gen alpha TikTok phrase "Those who know" was made in 2024, it actually has a way longer history on TikTok.

It became popular around 2021-2022 during the "mr incredible becoming uncanny" and "xqc becoming uncanny" memes. these types of memes would usually provide a video with nearly no context while showing mr incredible becoming uncanny or xqc becoming uncanny on the top/bottom, implying something bad or shocking happened.

since you would obviously look in the comment section for any source or context, of course the only people who understands will comment "those who know💀."

now around 2024-2025 it's slowly coming back and just now becoming popular again, now with the trollface and mangos meme instead of the basic skull emojis.
((a video showing a dog barking at a tank video with an xqc gif above becoming uncanny, not showing the tank exploding and stunning the dog)).

comment section: those who know ☠️
Those Who Know by TotalSwizzy February 9, 2025

Those Who Know.

Used to both reminiscence or gatekeep a certain subject. Inspired from viral sensation Mr incredible ThoseWhoKnow vs those who don't know.
"Those Who Know the time Connor went to sleep in a ditch in Newyork" "when was the last time you showered? Those Who Know."
Those Who Know. by Murc-ielago June 26, 2026

those who know: ☠️☠️☠️☠️ 

this is when theres something that is just unfathomable, something no one can explain, even a troll face rizzler couldnt, when this phenomenom happens. this word is used to say that if someone knows, they're an ailen and must be exterminated.

This is usually combined with a troll face
"Those who know: ☠️☠️☠️☠️ Sigma sumsung"

"Those who know: ☠️☠️☠️☠️ Troll!"

mango mango + talk tuah + skibidi stare + i like my cheese drippy bruh+ balkan jerkmate servers = those who know 

me fighting somone: 🙂

they do the balkan jerk: 💀

meh friend from ohio: english or spanish

sussy case oh: CAN I GET A HOOOO YEAAAH?

logan paul: i like my cheese drippy bruh.

(end me)
guy1: hey

guy2: mango mango + talk tuah + skibidi stare + i like my cheese drippy bruh+ balkan jerkmate servers = those who know
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