Wish You Were Here is a 2011 single by Avril Lavigne from her fourth album, Goodbye Lullaby, where it arrived as a piano-led pop ballad about the ache of separation. Years after its release the chorus found a second life as a viral TikTok audio, soundtracking nostalgic edits, friendship tributes and homesick travel clips. It now belongs to the same family of emotional edit audios as Hello darkness my old friend, which creators reach for when a clip needs instant melancholy.