Bling Bling Boy

About

Bling Bling Boy is a character on the Cartoon Network animated series Johnny Test. He is the main antagonist in the series. In the mid-late 2010s, he became the subject of various YouTube Poop remixes and shitposts.

Origin

Bling Bling Boy, real name Eugene Hamilton,^[1] first appeared in the first episode of Johnny Test, which aired September 17th, 2005. Most of the memes revolving around Bling Bling Boy revolve around scenes in the episode "Phat Johnny,"^[2] which aired December 3rd, 2006. The first scene is one in which which Bling Bling Boy becomes a muscular, and the second is in which he raps a verse to impress talent agents (shown below).

Spread

Bling Bling Boy did not see meme spread until 2015. The earliest parodies using the character appeared on March 3rd, 2015, in a video in which a person creates the character's face in Minecraft in a video that only gained just over 400 views. (shown below, left). An image of Bling Bling Boy's face over Drake's in the Hotline Bling video was posted to Tumblr^[3] on December 26th, 2015, gaining only 49 notes (shown below, right).

On December 22nd, 2016, YouTuber skellygore uploaded the most popular joke video of Bling Bling Boy, featuring him rapping over the beat to You Reposted In The Wrong Neighborhood, gaining over 53,000 views (shown below, left). The same day, he uploaded a video of the Bling Bling Boy rap happening over the beat of "Hotline Bling," gaining over 23,000 views (shown below, right). He also created a YouTube playlist featuring the various joke videos people had made using the character.^[4]

In May of 2017, a comparison image of Bling Bling Boy and rapper Post Malone began circulating online. On May 5th, 2017, the Facebook page Social Anxiety Disorder Memes^[5] showed the image and gained over 3,000 likes and reactions (shown below).

Various Examples

Search Interest

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