About

I'm A Genius Like Phineas is a song by TikToker @WUTAE that inspired a TikTok trend in June 2025. The song features the lyrics, "I'm a genius like Phineas" and "I'm a genius like Ferb," in reference to the titular characters of the Disney Channel animated show Phineas and Ferb. The song was originally posted in late June 2025 in a video where TikToker @WUTAE sings under the light of a streetlamp dressed in a white shirt, dark pants and green durag. The song came to be used as the sound effect for memes and jokes soon after it went viral, with people sharing memes both sincere and ironic about the song's catchy melody.

Origin

TikToker @WUTAE began posting clips of his song "Genius like Phineas" on June 22nd, 2025, gathering minimal views on his early TikToks^[1][2] promoting the song until a June 23rd TikTok^[3] gathered over 140,000 plays and 27,000 likes in a week. The low-quality video showed WUTAE dancing alongside small sprites of the characters Phineas and Ferb from the Disney Channel cartoon.

On June 24th, 2025, TikToker^[4] @WUTAE posted another video singing his song "Genius like Phineas." The TikToker recorded himself under a streetlamp, dressed in a white shirt, dark pants and green durag. The post gathered over 250,000 plays and 38,000 likes in a week.

Spread

TikToker WUTAE's "Genius like Phineas" came to be used as the sound for several TikToks in late June 2025, as seen in a June 27th, 2025 TikTok^[5] posted by @codyexists8. The video reads, "Notice how the mustard or mango seizure memes are still trending / That's what happens when companies don't hop on jokes." The video gathered over 160,000 plays and 26,000 likes in five days.

On June 28th, 2025, TikToker^[6] @histack posted a video featuring a Minecraft edit that gathered over 300,000 plays and 70,000 likes in two days.

Also on June 28th, TikToker^[7] @mangoman225 posted a video with the lyrics "I'm a genius like Phineas" and "I'm a genius like Ferb" printed over the video. The post gathered over 200,000 plays and 30,000 likes in two days.

On June 29th, 2025, TikToker^[8] @carlos.isgay posted a video using the "Genius like Phineas" song, writing, "Think of the lamest girl you know / she probably jokes about having a dih doesn't she." The post gathered over 900,000 plays and 170,000 likes in three days.

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