Lil Yachty Walks Out On Stage

About

Lil Yachty Walks Out On Stage is an exploitable meme format featuring a viral video of American rapper Lil Yachty walking out onto a stage with a large audience and dancing. In April 2024, the clip began to spread online in edited forms, with Yachty being replaced by other people using a rotoscoping app called Viggle AI. Some famous personalities edited on Yachty include Sam Bankman-Fried and Joker.

Origin

American rapper Lil Yachty performed in the August 2021 Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash concert, with a clip of him walking out on stage to a lively audience gaining traction online in subsequent months. A clip of Yachty walking out was posted to YouTube^[1] on June 20th, 2022, where it gathered over 4 million views in two years (seen below).

Spread

The video came to be reposted in subsequent years, with fans admiring Yachty's stage presence. On June 18th, 2023, X^[6] user @mosthiphop reposted the clip with the caption, "lil yachty with the most legendary walk out to concert I’ve ever seen," gathering over 100,000 likes in a year (seen below).

The video also came to be used as a reaction meme, as seen in an April 6th, 2023, post by X^[7] user @Jai_Mcintosh and a March 8th, 2024, post by X^[8] user @notsobann, both gathering over 1,000 likes each in roughly a year (seen below).

2024 AI Rotoscope Edits

On April 8th, 2024, X^[2] account @AIWarper made a post showing how they turned Yachty into Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker using an app called Viggle AI. The post gathered over 3,000 likes in four days (seen below).

On April 11th, X^[3] user @CensoredMen posted a video showing Adolf Hitler rotoscoped onto the clip of Lil Yachty. The post gathered over 120,000 likes in a day (seen below).

Also on April 11th, 2024, X^[4] user @betafuzz posted a clip of Sam Bankman Fried edited onto Yachty's clip, gathering over 7,000 likes in a day (seen below).

X^[5] account @PerSources also posted an edited video, this time showing NBA athlete Nikola Jokic walking out on stage instead of Yachty. The post gathered over 5,000 likes in a day (seen below).

Various Examples

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— Stocktwits (@Stocktwits) April 12, 2024

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