Ernie Gang

About

Ernie Gang refers to a loose collective of people who identify as Ernie from Sesame Street in the video game VR Chat who then raid other servers and pester the users there, saying it's property of "Ernie Gang."

Origin

On November 22nd, 2017, YouTuber Alpharad began the raid in a stream of VR Chat in which he convinced other online players to adopt the Ernie skin and go to other rooms. He first posted about the gang on that day in a tweet (shown below).

Spread

A week later, on November 29th, 2017, Alpharad uploaded a video devoted to Ernie Gang. The video gained 315,000 views (shown below, left). The same day the video was posted, YouTuber WindyAura uploaded a parody of Gucci Gang called "Ernie Gang," which gained over 25,000 views (shown below, right).

The video apparently inspired a group of discord users to raid other chat rooms as Ernie Gang. This was brought to Alpharad's attention, and on December 1st, 2017, he tweeted telling his followers to stop doing that^[1] (shown below).

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