About

Ghost Duet is the name given to a short music animation by artist Louie Zong. The viral popularity of the short about ghosts singing together led to a sequel entitled "Ghost Choir" and inspired an Instagram personality to mix the song with paper stripes and rice in order to reflect on relationships.

Origin

The song and its animation were made by freelance board artist Louie Zong and first posted to his Twitter account on October 31st, 2017^[1] (shown below). It accumulated to over 155k likes and 113k retweets in the next two years.

Spread

Many were quick to laud the heartwarming nature of the two ghosts singing together on Twitter as well as in a Reddit repost of a now defunct video which accumulated to over 1,000 likes in the next year and a half^[2]. Tumblr user r00tless curated a handful of responses from people imagining lyrics to the song^[3] and tributes would soon follow suit throughout 2018 (shown below).

Zong made a follow-up video named "Ghost Choir" on October 23rd, 2018 (shown below). The video accumulated over 5 million views in the next year (shown below).

This video also inspired a slew of parodies and remixes (examples shown below).

Dez2Fly Variations

On April 19th, 2019, Instagram user Dez2Fly posted a video titled "How My Ex Was Made (Rice Version)" in which he pours rice into a pan where a note on a strip of paper is supposed to describe a trait from his ex-partner and using "Ghost Duet" as a background song. At the end of the short clip, the final note says "Hoe" before a mountain of rice is poured and a distorted ear-rape version of the song is played (shown below, left). With an average view count of 300,000 views per video, Dez2Fly was inspired to make more variations on broader topics such as relationships, being men, being a nice guy or having low self-esteem (examples below).

Various Examples

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