About

"Laboratory," also known as Like a Meebo, is a 2021 hip-hop song by Dville Santa that was first teased on TikTok in April 2021, inspiring a number of viral sounds and videos on the platform that year. The song was notably attached to a shitpost video of an animated Smurf dancing that same year, seeing a number of reposts.

Origin

On April 29th, 2021, TikToker^[1] and rapper Dville Santa (@dvillesanta) posted a video lip-dubbing to an original song consisting of nonsense lyrics somewhat resembling the language that characters in The Sims speak, Simlish, captioned, "i was told to bring this to tik tok 🤦🏾‍♂️ if i drop the full song imma go triple vibranium" (shown below). The video gained over 3.9 million views in three months, with users commenting wondering why it sounds so good and wanting a full drop.

On May 4th, TikToker^[3] @drip2times posted a remixed version of the sound, garnering over 1.2 million views, asking if he should drop it and tagging Dville. On May 5th, Dville dropped the full version of the song, teasing it on his TikTok^[4] that day (shown below).

Shabadaba, deeboop? (Hmm?)
Shabadaba gooba like a meeboop (MEEBOOP!)
Labo labo
Labo dababo glabo gluglug guhglable lable (Ooooh tongue twister!)
Like gaba gaba
Yaba dasabadaba yoobabababa (Blow!)
Moosay

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On May 24th, 2021, YouTuber^[5] ф posted a lyric video for the track titled "Like a Meebo," garnering over 171,000 views in two months (shown below).

Later that month, memers began attaching the song to footage of a Smurf dancing, which was reuploaded to YouTube and TikTok a number of times. The most popular of these is a 10-hour cut on YouTube,^[6] garnering over 235,000 views in two months (shown below).

On June 2nd, Santa released the official music video for the song on YouTube,^[2] garnering over 1.4 million views in a month (shown below).

Beginning in May, the original sounds for Dville Santa's original TikTok ("Laboratory – Devin 🤍") showcasing the song, as well as @drip2times' upload ("original sound – Dripppp💧"), inspired over 100,000 and 12,000 videos respectively on TikTok.

"Mom, I Can't Find My" Trend

One of the most popular trends using Santa's original sound sees TikTokers present a variation of the snowclone caption, "'Mom, I can't find my X,' 'Mom:'" on-screen, over a video of the TikToker using an effect to make it appear as if object 'X' appears out of thin air, implying the person's mother found the item instantly (most popular examples shown below, left and right). The trend was most popular in early June 2021.

Various Examples

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