About

JamWayne or Jam Wayne is a white, middle-aged, rural Southern American rapper from Alabama with a large TikTok following who became the subject of memes in early 2025. He dresses like a stereotypical Southern or country man, often wearing mirrored sunglasses, a baseball cap, a T-shirt and jeans, as well as sporting a grey beard. TikTok meme creators used his videos as the base layer for Hood Irony posts structurally similar to the Druski Dancing memes in which walls of text with slang overload covered most of the video. For those unaware of his name, they often called him the White Guy Rapping meme. JamWayne memes were largely popularized among TikTok's ironic JuggTok and SlimeTok communities. Interest in JamWayne from internet users outside of his fanbase related him to other meme rappers who are ironically adorned, mirroring memes about Chandler, another middle-aged, white rapper who went viral for the Running All Over the Place Blue in the Face / Shi is Bubonic video around the same timeframe.

Online History

JamWayne is an American from Alabama, and before his rap career, he was a nuclear technician.^[3] JamWayne is also a father.^[4] An interview with him was shared by YouTuber^[5] ChadArmesTV on January 24th, 2024, gaining over 33,000 views in a year (shown below).

JamWayne released the music video for his first track "Flush" on YouTube^[1] on December 18th, 2023, gaining over 503,400 views and 10,000 likes in two years (shown below).

Also on December 18th, he posted the music video for his song "Drip" to YouTube,^[2] gaining over 1.1 million views and 28,000 likes in two years.

On December 31st, 2023, JamWayne shared his first TikTok^[6] video, which was a clip from his "Drip" music video, receiving over 27,300 plays and 2,100 likes in two years (shown below).

Online Presence

Memes using JamWayne videos predominantly started in early 2025. Currently, the earliest known video to exploit a JamWayne video was shared by TikToker^[7] @2andm4n on January 30th, 2025, showing JamWayne with text overlay reading, "U good slime? Haven't seen u in our Roblox femboy roleplay server in a while," gaining over 212,200 likes in a month (shown below).

The abovementioned video used the song "slime u out" by Osamason as its TikTok sound.^[8] Others used the same sound for more JamWayne memes in the following weeks.

For instance, on February 10th, TikToker^[9] @injustice_hub used the sound with a JamWayne video, adding bastardized AAVE slang like TS PMO ICL, amassing over 172,600 likes in 16 days (shown below).

The JamWayne templates were then co-opted by other meme trends in the following weeks. For instance, on February 17th, 2025, TikToker^[10] @mrllime shared an ironic dank meme video adding to the then-recent parodies of the Memenade YouTube channel, using a JamWayne video as the background. It received over 154,900 likes in nine days (shown below).

Similar ironic dank meme videos were shared on TikTok^[11] that used JamWayne clips in mid-to-late February 2025.

On February 22nd, 2025, TikToker^[12] @ftc.stewart shared a video making fun of Millennial Burger Places using a JamWayne clip. The video received over 123,800 likes in four days (shown below).

Various Examples

Following

By February 26th, 2025, JamWayne had amassed over 305,500 followers on TikTok,^[13] over 242,000 subscribers on YouTube^[14] and over 235,000 followers on Instagram.^[15]

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