That got around 500,000 views, which was my first big video and that was pretty exciting. I eventually made a video called “Do Ya Thing Without Music,” which was a Gorillaz music video I had edited to replace the music with Foley sound effects and such. ![]() I was getting a few thousand views or so on each of the videos. Q: So would you tell us a little more about your background and who you are? How’d you get into making parody music and when did you start your YouTube channel?Ī: So I think I started my channel in 2015 but didn’t upload much until around 2017 when I was making theory videos on a mobile game called My Singing Monsters. There’s one in specific as of recent that’s sort of getting a little big right now. Let’s start off with a quick intro about who you are and what you’re known for.Ī: Hey! I’m Leviathan and I made a few popular Fortnite parodies that have made their rounds on the internet lately, you might know them. Q: Welcome and thanks for joining us, Leviathan. Now that it’s racked up over 10 million views, become a TikTok trend, meme format via Tomato Town Massacre and more, here’s what Leviathan himself had to say about it all. We caught up with Leviathan earlier this week to find out more about how he created the song, where the inspiration came from, and how he’s been handling the influx of attention online since it swept the internet in recent weeks. The song in question, of course, is none other than “Chug Jug With You.” If you haven’t heard it yet, we’re sorry for getting it stuck in your head. By now, most have heard this infamous Fortnite parody that, despite being sung by a squeaker, is an incredibly catchy earworm. If the songs that become viral on TikTok are really a result of the internet's global id, then the music industry will never be able to monetize it.T just 13 years old, YouTuber Leviathan uploaded a parody song to his channel in 2018 featuring Estelle’s Grammy-nominated “American Boy.” For years, it sat in relative obscurity before exploding this year and giving life to a multitude of meme formats and viral trends. That's an optimistic outlook, and one I hope is true. YourLocalLibrary says that the way that these two ironic modes are canceling each other out shows that the internet at large is beginning to move away from a culture of calling things cringey or making fun of sincerity. But there's a second layer of irony in not putting your enjoyment of something behind a wall of ironic detachment and just liking something even if it is a little bit embarrassing, using the song as a way to make fun of that kind of ironic detachment where you can't like anything unless you're doing a bit. There's a kneejerk reaction to like the song as a way of saying that it sucks-essentially, to like it ironically. One TikToker who goes by YourLocalLibrary said that in their estimation, people are enjoying the song on two levels of irony. It's about being so endeared by this person's creativity that you love it despite of, or because of, it's flaws. ![]() ![]() What's remarkable about the response to "Chug Jug With You" on TikTok is that it's not about making fun of the person behind the song, who most users believe to be an actual child. Changing the lyrics to be about Fortnite does not diminish that. I listened to that song every day of my life in the year in 2008 when it was released, and it's still a bop now. Part of it has to do with the fact that "American Boy" by Estelle is a stone cold banger.
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