Memory
@beige_flag_bearer · Poster
12 Aug 2026
My nephew learned the transition before he learned the words. He had the hat ready by the door for a fortnight.
Old Town Road
A country-trap track that spread through TikTok as the Yeehaw Challenge — drink milk, cut, appear in a cowboy hat — and then spent 13-plus weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. A Billy Ray Cyrus remix extended it further. The record's entry for a hit that a chart had to be argued into recognising.
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Lil Nas X, 2019; spread through TikTok's Yeehaw Challenge
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@thumbnail_theo · Digger
5 Jul 2020
Played after Texas Tech won an NCAA tournament game and at an Atlanta Hawks fixture, which is roughly the point a TikTok sound becomes a stadium sound.
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@kym_lurker · Archivist
17 Jul 2019
Both versions together made it the most-streamed song in a single US week, over 143 million streams, past the 116.2 million of Drake's 'In My Feelings'.
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