About

Adrian, Explain Our Friend Group or Ohio Friend Group refers to a viral video where a presumed high schooler named Adrian is asked to explain his friend group to the camera, saying they're a mixture of Ohio, then singing a version of "Swag Like Ohio," with a pinch of Florida and Arkansas, concluding that they are "fucking chaotic as shit." The video was deemed cringey by some while others in the comments envied how happy the friend group seemed, resulting in edits and videos referencing it on TikTok in February 2023. In June 2025, Adrian was interviewed so he could explain his friend group.

In mid-2025, the video became a central exploitable element in the Adrian Eeffoc Brainrot genre of brainrot and lobotomy videos, which combined exploitable video elements into absurd edits, largely focusing on Adrian, Explain Our Friend Group and the Coffee Spelled Backwards is Eeffoc meme. Other common exploitables in the trend included A Barbershop Haircut That Costs a Quarter, Bro's Got X-Ray Vision for Grippers, Instagrammar, Steven Here and Thompson's Cutz and Design's, among many others.

Origin

Around February 8th, 2023, TikToker^[1] @omni_boi26 posted a video where a girl films two boys and says, "Adrian, explain our friend group." One of the boys, presumably Adrian, steps forward and says in a deep voice, "We are Ohio," inspiring the other friend to dance and sing, "made in Ohio, only in Ohio," followed by Adrian continuing, "with a pinch of Florida and Arkansas. Together we are," then switches to a casual voice and finishes, "fucking chaotic as shit." The account has since gone private, but the video was reuploaded by TikToker^[2] @ifiniteboat on February 9th, 2023, garnering over 3.5 million views in five days (shown below).

Spread

After the video was uploaded by @omni_boi26, it became the subject of duets and reactions. On February 8th, 2023, TikToker^[3] @albiemichael duetted the video, captioned, "the world should've ended in 2012," garnering over 600,000 views in six days (since deleted).

On February 9th, TikToker^[5] @my.second.account1 posted a video of students getting photographs with the friend group, garnering over 1.3 million views in five days (since deleted).

On February 13th, 2023, TikToker^[4] @zkrrm posted an edit of the original video, gaining over 224,400 likes in two years (shown below).

On December 10th, 2024, TikToker^[6] @illegalbugtrader used the Adrian, Explain Our Friend Group audio in a "Hood Irony": edit, featuring other memes like the King Von Stare. Over six months, the video gained over 221,600 likes (shown below).

Interview With Adrian

On June 18th, 2025, TikToker^[7] @bobotoosmooth posted a clip from his interview with Adrian from the Adrian, Explain Our Friend Group video, receiving over 36,600 likes in five days. The clip received more viral reposts on TikTok^[9] in the following days.

On June 18th, the TikToker shared the interview on YouTube,^[8] gaining over 26,600 views in five days (shown below).

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