Alpha Kenny Body

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About

Alpha Kenny Body is a deliberate mondegreen or homophonic transformation of the phrase “I’ll fuck anybody”. The phrase was initially embraced by the North American Filipino YouTube community as a popular prank to play on parents, played out by writing the phrase on a piece of paper and asking parents to recite it.

Origin

Alpha Kenny Body and other deliberate mondegreen’s such as “I am sofa king we Todd Ed” (I am so fucking retarded) have existed for years. The UrbanDictionary entry for Alpha Kenny Body was first posted in November of 2007.

One of the initial and most viewed prank videos was uploaded January 8, 2010 by video blogger Frida Rose who successfully pranked her mom into saying the phrase.

The majority of views on the video are accredited to Facebook links and sharing and have surpassed half a million views within seven months of the initial upload. In the description, Rose claims to have received the idea for the prank from another video uploaded July 1, 2009.

The major contributor to the spread is video blogger and comedian Kevin Wu AKA KevJumba when he pranked his dad with the phrase on a video uploaded April 29, 2010.

Spread

The first two spikes correspond to the videos posted by Rose and Wu and have already begun to taper off. Facebook appears to be one of the major contributors through link sharing and fan pages.

What is still undetermined is why the vast majority of contributors to this prank are mostly from the Filipino YouTube Community.