About

Big Booty Bitches is a song created by New York–based producers Jansen and Paris Diamond. In 2008, the two uploaded a video of themselves performing the song to YouTube as a way to loosen up before a recording session, after which it went viral, resulting in numerous reaction videos and remixes.

Origin

On October 28th, 2008, the YouTube^[1] account ALostPeople, belonging to producers Paris Diamond and Jansen, posted a video in which they perform a song repeating the lyrics, "Big booty bitches, I got big booty bitches," (shown below). Although the original was removed, it was reuploaded by the original channel in 2012, gaining over 9 million views nine years.

Spread

On April 30th, 2010, YouTuber^[2] Ray William Johnson, aka =3, posted a reaction to the video, garnering over 24 million views in 11 years (shown below). This significantly helped spread the video.

As the video spread, it inspired a number of reactions on YouTube,^[3][4] including parodies and remixes of the song (examples shown below, left and right)

On May 4th, ALostPeople posted a video thanking everyone for their love and support of the song and video, giving special shoutouts to Ray William Johnson, Tosh.0, and Sky Johnson for helping spread it (shown below, left). On May 7th, they posted a video of a studio-recorded quality version of the song (shown below, right).

On May 12th, YouTubers^[5] Bombs Away released a cover of the song, garnering over 3.1 million views in 11 years (shown below).

Various Examples

Search Interest

External References