Viral Popular Video Pine Apple Pen

“Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen” (PPAP), an infectiously addictive song sings by a made up character “Piko Tara”, gets popular among teenagers in Japan. When the song went live in August, hundreds of teens nowadays mimic this video by creating their own #ppap dance.

Here is a link to the original video

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Development of the Character

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The first picture is Piko-Taro, and the second picture is Kosaka Daimaou.

Piko-Taro is not real. He’s a character created by comedian and DJ Kosaka Daimaou (real name: Kazuhiko Kosaka). Piko-Tara was first introduced in live, stand-up performances. Daimaou then decided to develop this character further by creating Piko-taro’s first YouTube video: PPAY. This video had almost 2.5 million views on YouTube. Piko-Taro has since created several other videos that have the same structure, such as the white backdrop, simple dance track and moves and nonsensical lyrics. Each of them is funny videos, but some of them contain Japanese humor, which other countries might not understand. He also creates a twitter account for his character Piko Taro’s and people can follow him either on YouTube or Twitter.

Development of the Song

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Piko-Taro dresses up in a yellow and jungle silk costume in the original version of the song. He is dancing first with a pen, then with an apple (apple pen) and later a pen and the pineapple (pineapple-pen) and sing the whole pineapple pen lyrics. Although this is a strange dance song video, it is damn attractive.

Daimaou came up this jingle when he was eating fruit one day and then by using this idea, he made the entire song himself on his computer (BuzzFeed News). “It was totally unexpected,” he said. “The way it spread rapidly around the world made me realize for the first time that I was singing in English. I was so happy that my height increased by three inches” (BuzzFeed News).

Why This Video Goes Viral?

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The reason why is because it has every ingredient to compose a viral YouTube video. It has a simple but catchy track, a simple funny dance routine, the nonsensical lyrics and the entire hilarious environment create a unique style to attract audiences. It went popular because its catchy tune, silly and repetitive lyrics will stick in your head all day which makes this become a "brainwash" song.

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Japanese Teens Are Filming Themselves Lip-Syncing about Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pens and it’s Crazy

💗ふみもか💗 @fmk0330

I have a pen✏️ #PPAP

02:20 PM - 25 Sep 2016

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People really seem to be into singing about having an apple and having a pen. Japanese teens are doing all sorts of abstract versions of the song, from highly sped-up recordings, to remixes, to acoustic sessions.

フレント @_fulent

棒シリーズのお菓子でPPAP #PPAP #ポッキーの日

12:08 PM - 11 Nov 2016

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The Vice Versa Relationship between Social Media Platforms and This Song

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This song becomes popular not only because of its own catchy characteristics but also because of the social media platforms which help to enhance it. Also, the song helps these social media platforms become popular as well.

Here is a list of the platforms (Phone apps) that people can use for taking pictures, recording videos and mimic PPAP song:

-Snow: is like Snapchat, to record more versions of the song because it has both an apple and a pineapple filter.

-Xiao Ka Xiu: Lip-Syncing recording video apps

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Also, there is a PPAP game app as well

Examples from Snow App

おまる @mm_omaru

あーそういえばこれ昨日。 流行りのやつやってきた。 #PPAP #ペンパイナッポーアッポーペン #くだらない #é ­ã«æ®‹ã‚‹ #é¼ å…ˆè¼©ã«ã—ã‹è¦‹ãˆãªã„

03:31 AM - 26 Sep 2016

Via Twitter: @mm_omaru

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Examples from Xiao Ka Xiu

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Not only teenagers mimic this PPAP song, but celebrities are also mimic through Xiao Ka Xiu.

Homemade Video by Sammy Liu gets Popular on Instagram

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After watching the original version, I had created my own version of the PPAP song. I posted this video on Instagram to see if it would go viral. Surprisingly, it had 1165 views up till now and it is still increasing.

Different Version of PPAP

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There are many different version of the PPAP song, such as longer version, strange remix version, mashup celebrities' version or mashup with other popular music.

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Conclusion

Justin Bieber @justinbieber

My favorite video on the internet 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 https://t.co/oJOqMMyNvw

08:04 PM - 27 Sep 2016

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Pen-pineapple-Pen-pineapple-apple-pen is quickly taking off in Japan and the rest of Asia. Now, it starts to reach the rest of the globe.