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What's Poppin refers to a video made by online comedian Casey Frey in which he appears to be high and rambles to his followers. The text of what he says in the video has been made into a copypasta and has been remixed on YouTube.

Origin

On November 30th, 2017, Instagram user Casey Frey posted a video of himself talking to his followers. In the video, he appears high, and given the nature of his other videos, he is likely joking. It has gained over 178,000 views.

A post shared by Casey Frey (@casey_frey_) on Nov 30, 2017 at 11:59am PST

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The video was later uploaded to YouTube on January 24th, 2018 by user Virgo (shown below).

[This video has been removed]

On January 19th, the text of the video was posted as a copypasta to /r/emojipasta,^[1] gaining 14 points. Parodies began appearing months later. On March 4th, Instagram user arnoldthepipeknight paired the clip with footage of user honeyantt crying, gaining over 131,000 views (YouTube embed shown below, left). On July 2nd, YouTube user Supersage posted a clip putting the video through a Snapchat filter, gaining over 11,000 views (shown below, right).

The meme also grew popular on Tumblr where it spread as both a copypasta and a video meme. As a copypasta, some popular posts include a post by updogonline that turned it into an acronym that gained over 5,600 points (shown below, left) and a post by Lunastims that paired the copypasta with STIM gifs (shown below, right).