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Mina Mintip or the Coems Song is a song by Central Asian artist Siezdbek Iskenaliev released in June 2017. The song, which references "Gangnam Style" in its lyrics, went viral on TikTok in March 2023 after being associated with videos referencing the Coems🤑 Roblox meme, becoming known as the "Coems Song" and spreading to YouTube Shorts. Numerous versions of the song went viral on both platforms, including a piano version known as the Coems Song Lullaby.

Origin

On June 6th, 2017, musician Siezdbek Iskenaliev published a music video for his song "Mina Mintip" or "Мына Минтип," which translates to "This is My Type," to YouTube,^[1] garnering over 11 million views in six years (shown below).

On March 7th, 2023, TikToker^[2] @timmy_rb (known for their Roblox content and memes) posted a video in which they play the game Build a Boat, glitching the water to make a pathway for them to cross, writing, "Removing the water so I can walk to the end 🤑" garnering over 2.3 million views in two months (shown below). The video is set to a sped-up version of "Mina Mintip" and the "🤑" money-mouth face emoji is a reference to the "coems" meme, a slang term on Roblox used as an alternative to the word "cums" in ironic Roblox memes. The user continued to use the song in future Roblox videos,^[3] often referencing the coems meme, gaining it the colloquial name "the coems song."

Spread

The song became increasingly popularized in Roblox meme videos on TikTok over the following weeks. On March 18th, 2023, TikToker^[4] @quandalefromohi0 posted a video of the original music video captioned, "I Found the Original," garnering over 14 million views in two months. On March 24th, the song's singer, @siezdbek, posted a video to TikTok^[5] lip dubbing to it, garnering over 3.4 million views in two months (shown below, left). On March 26th, the sped-up version of the song was posted to YouTube,^[6] garnering over 193,000 views. On March 27th, TikToker^[7] @itzz.._hania posted a Roblox video using the song that gained over 1.7 million views in the same rough span of time (shown below, right).

Coems Song Lullaby

On April 20th, 2023, YouTuber^[8] SRS posted a clip from one of Siezdbek's TikTok livestreams where he sings a slower, piano version of the song, which has colloquially become known as the "Coems Song Lullaby," garnering over 321,000 views in a month (shown below). It was posted by TikToker^[9] @dan_ish360 on April 23rd, garnering over 2.1 million views in the same span of time.

The lullaby version of the song became similarly popularized among Roblox meme videos. On April 20th, TikToker^[10] @kellanbigmoney posted a video where a character sings the song, garnering over 6 million views in a month (shown below, left). On April 24th, TikToker^[11] @bigcashash29 posted a similar video that gained over 480,000 views in a similar span of time (shown below, right).

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