Boy Throb

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About

Boy Throb is a boy band made up of influencers Anthony Key, Darshan Magdum, Evan Papier and Zachary Sabania, known for their song covers on TikTok and Instagram Reels. The band started posting videos in late October 2025 that encourage viewers to get them to one million followers so that their member Darshan Magdum, who only appeared via video call, can get a United States visa and perform with them in America. The band gained significant attention in their first month of posting, garnering over 800,000 followers on TikTok and 400,000 on Instagram in that time. As their virality grew, Boy Throb inspired discussions about whether or not they're satirical, a claim that they refuted in late November 2025.

History

On October 28th, 2025, TikTokers^[1] @boy.throb posted their first video, garnering over 6.9 million views in a month. In the video, they introduce themselves as a nameless boy band and explain that their fourth member, Darshan, is "stuck in India." They claim that their immigration lawyer said that they need one million followers to get Darshan a U.S. visa and then sing a song about their desire to win a Grammy and bring Darshan to the United States.

The band consists of TikTokers^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] Anthony Key, Darshan Magdum, Evan Papier and Zachary Sabania.

On October 29th, the music group posted a video on TikTok^[6] in which they announced the name of their boy band as "Boy Throb," basing it on the previous video's second most-liked comment, garnering over 4 million views in a month.

In the video, they explain that they couldn't go with the most-liked comment because it was "Epstein's Angels," and their immigration lawyer said Darshan would never get his visa if they chose that name.

Boy Throb continued to post on TikTok and Instagram^[7] throughout November 2025, their videos regularly gained hundreds of thousands to millions of views. The majority of their videos in this time period were song cover parodies about bringing Darshan to the U.S.

On November 1st, 2025, Boy Throb posted a video on TikTok^[8] that gained over 9.1 million views in three weeks.

By November 24th, 2025, Boy Throb had accumulated over 800,000 followers on TikTok and over 400,000 on Instagram.

Retirement Home Performance Video

On November 21st, 2025, TikToker^[9] @jamestoe3423 posted a video of Boy Throb performing at a retirement home with Darshan performing via webcam on a laptop, garnering over 16 million views in three days.

The video subsequently went viral and was reposted on social media, including by X^[10] user @CollinRugg on November 23rd, garnering over 13,000 likes in a day.

On November 24th, Boy Throb posted a slideshow on TikTok^[11] consisting of two Notes pages responding to the leaked retirement home video.

In the post, they claim that they are not satirical and that they are serious about becoming a boy band. They also announced that they will be releasing an original single soon, expanding from covers. The video gained over 34,000 views in about two hours.

Online Presence

Boy Throb inspired numerous reactions online in late 2025, including from people wondering if they were serious or satirical.

On November 23rd, 2025, TikToker^[12] @g4r4gegurlz posted a video claiming that her friend knew Anthony and that Boy Throb is serious about becoming a well-known boy band, sharing a video of Anthony pre-Boy Throb, garnering over 250,000 views in a day.

That same day, the @h3_podcast TikTok^[13] page posted a video in which the crew of the podcast, along with YouTubers Rich Lux and Harley Morenstein of Epic Meal Time fame, perform a parody of Boy Throb's videos, garnering over 113,000 views in a day.