I'm a Snake

About

I'm a Snake is a viral video featuring a man wearing a snake hat looking into the camera while saying, “I'm a snake. I’m a slithery little sneaky snake. I’m so slithery and sneaky cause I’m a snake.” The video first appeared online in 2010 and has since been featured on TV shows like Tosh.0 or referenced in other memes and videos, sometimes seen as a standalone catchphrase. The audio clip can also frequently be heard mixed with other videos of someone or something mimicking a snake.

Origin

The original “I’m A Snake” video was uploaded by YouTuber^[1] MattKeck to his channel on August 22nd, 2010. In the video (featured below), MattKeck can be seen with an orange and yellow snake hat sitting on his head with the tongue and fangs drooping down over his forehead. As he looks blankly into the camera, he says, “I'm a snake. I’m a slithery little sneaky snake. I’m so slithery and sneaky cause I’m a snake. Slithering in your garden, catching me a mouse. Look into my eyes jungle book, I’m a slippery hypnotist snake …” as he continues uttering the line with a slight lisp. Since being uploaded, the video now has over 28 million views, 193,000 likes and 13,000 dislikes.

Spread

During the third season of Comedy Central’s Tosh.0,^[2] specifically the first episode "Antoine Dodson", Daniel Tosh can be seen discussing the viral video during the “Viewer Video” segment, which features user-submitted clips. The episode originally aired on January 11th, 2011 (seen below around the 18:00 mark). After appearing on the show, the video spread elsewhere online.

YouTuber^[3] Victor & Dave Nelms-Acord uploaded a parody of the video to his channel titled, “I'm a Spider!” on October 7th, 2011. Mimicking the original video, the man can be seen wearing a spider hat while similarly using a lisp and saying, “I’m a spider. I’m a sticky little spider.” Since being posted, this parody (shown below) has received over 237,000 views, 1,000 likes, 937 dislikes and 335 comments.

On January 13th, 2012, “I'm a snake” was added to Urban Dictionary^[4] by user weir1 with the definition, “A video that went viral featured on tosh.o, featuring a fat nerd wearing a snake hat repeatedly saying he's a snake.” Currently, the term has 36 likes and 12 dislikes.

YouTuber^[5] Caddy Plays uploaded a remixed version of the original on December 11th, 2013, transforming the clip into a song. The video (seen below) received more than 353,000 views, 4,000 likes and 373 comments.

Redditor^[6] xxmannersmakethmenxx can be seen referencing the viral video in a recording of Battlefield that was posted to the r/Battlefield subreddit on January 28th, 2019, under the title, “I'm a snake, I'm a slithery slithery snake.”

TikTok I’m A Snake Videos

In 2019, TikTok^[7] added “original sound – immaslipperysnakiesnake” to its platform, allowing users to put their own recordings to the audio from the original video, which has since reached over 6,200 videos total. One such example, uploaded by TikTok^[8] user mayanflo with the caption “I think my cat is broken,” has since been liked more than 574,000 times and commented on another 3,500 times (shown below).

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