Hello Internet, and welcome to Behind The Meme,
Where we take a look at the meaning and the origin of your favourite memes.
Today we have a look at "You Reposted In The Wrong Neighborhood."
I have been seeing and hearing "You Reposted In The Wrong Neighborhood" in various videos for weeks now.
I didn't understand that it was a popular trend until i saw comments on my videos suggesting i should do a video on that topic.
Thank You also very much for your suggestions, keep 'em coming.
Who knows, your suggestion may be the next video.
You wanted it? Now you have it. Here we go!
So what exactly is "You Reposted In The Wrong Neighborhood?"
When I first heard the title, I thought it might have something to do with some type of internet gangster.
Some type of person who gets mad when you post something on the wrong website.
"Eyy, vato, you reposted in the wrong neighborhood, fool!"
"This is the place where you post pictures of cats!"
"You take your picture of a dog and get out of here, fool. This is my area!"
Something kinda like that. But I was wrong.
It's actually the title of a remixed song that has become a part of a trend here on YouTube.
A trend that involves adding the song into various videos that are remixed in a variety ways.
The song is a remix of two other songs. The first song which serves as a music of the remix, a song by glue70 called "Casin"
*Music*
The song that is used as lyrics in "You Reposted In The Wrong Neighborhood" is "Shake That" by rapper Eminem featuring Nate Dogg.
*Rapping* Two to the one to the one to the three. I like good p**** and I like good trees. Smoke so much w*** you wouldn't believe and I get more ass than a toilet seat.
Okay, so we have two songs that are decent separately, but really neither one of them is that amazing. At least at my opinion.
With that all changes, when you combine them together, when you do that, magic happens.
Prepare your ears, you're about to hear something amazing.
*<3*
This match maden music heaven was uploaded to the Souncloud profile of an artist named S H O K K
Spelled with 2 K's
Somebody didn't pass english class
The song was posted in March 24 of 2014
And today sits over two and a half million plays
Ok, so we understand how the song was created
But why and how has become a video trend online?
Well, those questions are easier to ask then answer...
The first use of the song and remakes video is largish unknown
But in the description of the song on S H O K K SoundCloud
he points to this video that was uploaded on April 24 of 2015 as being the video that started it all.
This video's intention was to vent frustations because
Steam had started to allow mod makers to sell mods to the game Skyrim.
A practice that was tipically free to everybody before
But in reality, intead of serving as a video to voice despleasure with the platform,
It served as a launchpad of an popular internet trend.
During the later part of 2015 and most of 2016...
The trend started to spread
Soon the song began to appear in many others video remixs on Youtube