Gabriel Gundacker
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About
Gabriel Gundacker is an online comedian and musician best known for his Vines and video comedy sketches posted elsewhere, perhaps the most well known of which is Zendaya Is Meechee.
History
Gundacker was born June 28th, 1991 in Winter Park, Florida, USA.[1] He first rose to prominence on Vine, gaining over 650,000 followers on the platform before it shut down (examples of Vines shown below).
Gundacker is also known for longer-form sketches posted to Twitter, Tumblr, YouTube, and Instagram. On Tumblr, popular videos include "Terry Was Born In a Papa John's," which was posted May 9th, 2016 and gained over 146,000 notes (shown below, top). Another popular video was his series "Guy Who Likes Music," which was posted March 5th, 2017 to YouTube and gained over 320,000 views (shown below, bottom).
Wii Sports Music
One of Gundacker's most popular series shows compositions he made for Wii Sports titles that were never made. He posted the first compilation of these videos to YouTube on July 11th, 2018, where it gained over 96,000 views (shown below, left). The second compilation was posted July 25th, 2018, gaining over 19,000 views. Both were mentioned by Polygon[2] in an article about Gundacker.
Zendaya Is Meechee
Zendaya Is Meechee refers to a viral video by Gundacker, who, in the video, sings the promotional posters for the 2018 animated film Smallfoot for humorous effect, including the poster for the character Meechee, who is voiced by actor Zendaya. On September 22nd, 2018, Gundacker tweeted a video of himself walking by several Smallfoot promotional posters and singing the information found upon them. He captioned the post, "zendaya is meechee." Within two days, the video received more than 17,000 retweets, 102,000 likes and 4.4 million views (shown below).
zendaya is meechee pic.twitter.com/zE6rXniAnQ
— Gabriel Gundacker (@gabegundacker) September 23, 2018
On September 23rd, Zendaya retweeted the video, adding the comment, "Sang my name right and everything 😂😂😂." The tweet received more than 3,000 retweets and 49,000 likes in 24 hours.
Several media outlets covered the song, including Billboard, HuffPost, Polygon and more.
On September 24th, Twitter published a Moments page about the song.
Online Presence
Gundacker has developed a strong online presence, with over 30,000 YouTube subscribers,[3] 89,000 Twitter followers,[4] and 56,000 Instagram followers.[5]
Search Interest
External References
[1] Famous Birthdays – Gabriel Gundacker
[2] Polygon – From the Vine creator of Wii Curling comes your favorite new song
[3] YouTube – Gabriel Gundacker
[4] Twitter – @gabrielgundacker
[5] Instagram – Gabriel Gundacker
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