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In a series of videos recorded in the Coney Island neighbourhood in September, rapper and content creator Gorilla Nems interviews a homeless man named TJ, who spouts the famous line about “Byron,” and a number of different people say “bing bong” into the camera.

(Each Sidetalk video opens with a the signature “bing bong” that accompanies the New York subway doors opening and closing, and Nems released a song called “Bing Bong” in August.” #Sidetalk nyc gif series Since then, “Byron” and “bing bong” have travelled quickly to the heart of the meme machine. The “bing bong” joke got added visibility in October, when a Sidetalk video of New York Knicks fans going bananas after a win against the Celtics went viral, featuring a fan looking directly into the camera and saying, “Bing bong.The shirtless man in the Sidetalk NYC video that shouts 'Joe Byron' first did so in a precursor video posted in April 2021 to all of Sidetalk's social media pages.

The video on YouTube is titled 'Coney Island's Finest' (shown below). It was uploaded to the platform on April 10th, 2021, and received roughly 1 million views over eight months. The same video was posted to TikTok the following day, where it received roughly 4.5 million plays and 556,700 likes over eight months. The caption of the TikTok reads, 'PRESIDENT BYRON 🇺🇸✨.'Īnother video that featured the same man saying 'Joe Byron' was posted to Sidetalk's pages in July 2021. On YouTube the video is titled 'Coney Island Glizzy Eating Contest' (shown below) and it was posted on July 4th, 2021. Over the course of five months, the video amassed roughly 743,000 views. There, it received roughly 7.6 million plays and 991,400 likes over four months.įuck Ya Life, Bing Bong / Joe Byron, Take Me Out To Dinner A month later, on August 13th, the first minute of the clip was uploaded to TikTok as its own video. On September 10th, 2021, Sidetalk posted a video to their YouTube titled 'Coney Island Ski Club' that became the source of the most viral instance of the shirtless man shouting 'Byron!' among other catchphrases said in the video. For instance, another man in the video gave the middle finger to the camera while still sitting in his car and said, 'Fuck ya life! Bing Bong!' The video (shown below) amassed roughly 2.5 million views over three months. Additionally, Sidetalk posted a snippet of the video to their TikTok the same day, specifically the moment when the shirtless man shouted 'YESSIR‼️' while standing under a spouting fire hydrant. The TikTok received roughly 2.4 million plays over four months.Īlthough the above video was posted in September 2021, it wasn't until reposts of it were posted to TikTok in late October that the lip-dub trend started taking off. The first TikTok repost of the September video was uploaded by to the platform on October 23rd, 2021 (shown below). The TikTok, over the course of a month and a half, received roughly 19.8 million plays and 3.4 million likes.įuck ya life! Bing Bong! / If you see these dogs in your front yard, just know upstairs I'm goin' hard.

What do you wanna tell Joe Byron right now? / What's up, baby? Take me out to dinner. In mid-November 2021, TikTokers started using the audio from the above video as an original sound. The first TikToker to do so was who posted a video on November 12th, 2021, that featured him and his friends lip-dubbing the audio (shown below). Over the course of three weeks, the video amassed roughly 1.2 million plays and 246,200 likes. On November 15th, 2021, TikToker posted the first known variant of the above video. In his video (shown below, left) he also lip-dubbed the audio, recreating the movements and the body language of the characters within the video as well. Additionally, he jumps up and kicks his legs out when the audio says, 'Bing Bong!' His TikTok received 3.5 million plays and 693,100 likes in three weeks' time.

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