Let Me Drive The Bus

About

Let Me Drive The Bus is a series of video edits which feature a clip of American rapper Blueface saying "let me drive the bus" in the music video for his single "Bussdown ft. Offset" and then quickly adds a separate clip of a bus crash. The videos edits which began circulating soon after the music video's release in July 2019, evolved into a series of TikTok videos in December in which users implement the same sound clip to act out a chaotic scene where they typically "drive" something using a game controller.

Origin

On July 4th, Lyrical Lemonade released "Blueface – Bussdown ft. Offset (Dir. by @_ColeBennett_)" to YouTube (shown below). The video gained over 27 million views and 562,000 likes in six months.

On July 6th, Instagram user succc.exe posted a short edit of the music video in which a school bus flips (shown below). The post received over 17,800 likes in six months.

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On July 9th, 2019, YouTuber Senpai uploaded a similar edit to succc.exe but replaced the bus accident clip with another example (shown below, left). The video garnered over 2,300 views in six months. On July 14th, YouTuber FreshFilms TV uploaded "LET ME DRIVE THE BUS (Blueface MEME compilation)" which received over 475,340 views and 16,000 likes in six months (shown below, right).

On December 14th, TikToker @fortnite.br uploaded the bass-boosted sound clip used in earlier examples of the meme and used the sound in a gaming video (shown below, left). The video garnered over 376,200 likes in a month. On December 19th, TikToker @alex.piinto used the sound clip in a video which shows him "driving" the bus using a usb jack (shown below, center). The video received over 784,000 likes in two weeks. That same day, TikToker @_kvng.tank uploaded a similar video except they pretend to drive an airplane which garnered over 576,200 likes in two weeks (shown below, right).

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