ChuChu TV Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs/YouTube Why do some bizarre videos take off and others don’t?ĭolan Dark: Relatability and nostalgia always play a part though. We are thrashing under the fever of a Great Sickness, yet we do not know it.Ī different version of Johnny Johnny published in 2014. A good example is how the jokes were mellow and now you would see one with an angry doge with a red color overlay and text like ‘mom stole my weed’ / ‘I have to kill her in her sleep now.’ While that caters towards ironic it is still the same meme essentially just re purposed, I believe this is just the rebirthing of the Johnny Johnny meme.Ĭreator behind Welcome to My Meme Page (300,000 Facebook followers) : I think Demons have descended upon our world. It’s not the same jokes but it’s the same format, sometimes even distorted versions. Nowadays it’s still used in a much different sense. It was incredibly popular back in the day, used unironically. Many start off extremely slow and some come and go. Tyler Cage, creator behind Memes by the Hour (popular meme account on Tumblr): Memes come and go. So that might be how it’s been (re)discovered. I know for a fact people started looking for the next Nick India Dab the same year still, in anticipation of popularizing it. How I believe these two items correlate heavily is the similar style and how questionable they seem to most people. We here at Cartoon Shitposts have personally made great contributions to Nick India Dab, to the point where we were featured on The Fine Bros., BuzzFeed, and PewDiePie’s channel.Īs for Johnny Johnny Yes Papa (JJYP), my assumption is that the source is a similar one: an amateur animator stemming from the subcontinent of India. This meme, in particular, was enabled through a viral sensation of 2017 called “Nick India Dab,” which originated as a commercial for Nickelodeon India and featured similarly poorly animated characters. Sometimes the average user is not ‘ready’ for certain content just yet. When it comes to memes, that often depends on what kind of humor is popular. Leon, co-creator of Cartoon Shitposts (258,000 Facebook followers): Virality depends heavily on when something finds enough exposure. It already had over a billion views on YouTube but nearly all of them were little children and only now the older audience has seen the video.
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The video featured a strange animation of a baby and father singing a mashup of “Johnny Johnny Yes Papa” and the “ Baby Shark” song, which seems to have been a winning combination.Ĭreator behind Free Memes Kids (1.8 million Twitter followers) : I think it’s popular now because it’s so weird and people can’t believe that little kids actually watch this and they are creeped out by the voices and the characters in the video.
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All it really takes is a few popular posts or creators posting about a meme before it can become a full fledged trend.ĭon Caldwell, Managing Editor of Know Your Meme: The recent resurgence was almost certainly caused by a tweet posted by which highlighted a clip taken from the Billion Surprise Toys YouTube channel. Shemrock Pre-Schools/YouTube Why is the “Johnny Johnny Yes Papa” meme so popular right now?ĭolan Dark, YouTube’s top meme creator (936,000 subscribers) : The increasing popularity of surreal humor definitely played a part in Johny Johny getting popular. To better understand this oddity, Polygon convened a panel of some of the most popular meme creators and aggregators to make sense of Johnny Johnny Yes Papa’s recent resonance. Why certain memes take off and reach mainstream success is the quantum mystery of the internet. “Now everyone knows and nobody can forget.” And all of those chambers are also full of undeniable evidence that these hidden vaults of eldritch knowledge have been plumbed by countless before you, but again, nobody ever talked about it. Then you realize the tomb has dozens and dozens of other chambers, nearly identical to the one you’re in but somehow different. But none of them have ever told the rest of the world. “You’re this explorer who just tumbles into a bizarre tomb full of unknowable, weird objects and you’re sure that nobody else has ever been there but then you notice scrawled messages on all of the walls and it becomes clear that people have been there. I asked Patrick Gill, Polygon’s resident shitposter and the employee most obsessed with Johnny Johnny Yes Papa, why this meme drew him into the internet’s weird vortex more than any other in recent times.