Reddit Guy's Weird Sex Music / 'Cbat' by Hudson Mohawke

About

Reddit Guy's Weird Sex Music or Cbat by Hudson Mohawke refers to reactions and memes made about a post to the /r/TIFU subreddit in which a user complains about his girlfriend's frustration with the music he prefers to play during intercourse. The story initially went viral on Twitter, before migrating to TikTok where people attempted to replicate how he would likely thrust to the beat of the song in question, "Cbat" by Hudson Mohawke.

Origin

On September 1st, 2022, Redditor^[1] TylerLife submitted a post to the subreddit /r/TIFU, which stands for "Today I Fucked Up." The post read, "TIFU / My (20F) girlfriend of two years told me the music that I (25M) play during sex is weird and a major turn off." The post gathered over 75,000 upvotes in two days (seen below).

The post received attention from people who thought the song was a funny choice for bedroom music. The track is called Cbat by Hudson Mohawke, and was uploaded to YouTube^[2] on August 1st, 2011, and has gathered 2 million views in ten years (seen below)

Spread

On September 1st, 2022, Twitter^[3] user @punished_cait reposted the Reddit post to Twitter alongside a caption that read, "please read this and then listen to the song. you are not prepared for the song." The tweet gathered over 200,000 likes and 40,000 retweets in nearly five days (seen below).

On September 2nd, 2022, TikTok^[4] handle @redditrave reposted the story to TikTok, gathering over 28 million views and 3.2 million likes in nearly four days (seen below).

Several TikTokers soon began to theorize about how the Redditor in question would thrust to the song, noting that his technique must have been melodic and not rhythmic for her to have noticed him following the beat to Cbat by Hudson Mowkawke even with no music playing.

On September 2nd, Hudson Mohawke's official Twitter account posted a video from the TikTok trends where someone tries to thrust to the beat of his song, alongside a caption that read, "[crying emojis] dying." The tweet gathered over 80,000 likes in nearly four days (seen below).

Parrot Singing Cbat TIFU Post

On September 29th, Redditer^[5] WeFuckBackHard made a post on the subreddit /r/TIFU detailing how he accidentally taught his roommate's pet parrot to sing Cbat by Hudson Mohawke. He talks about how he was responsible for taking care of his roommate's parrot in his absence over the last weekend of September 2022, and chose to spend the time with his girlfriend while blasting Cbat as a joke. The parrot quickly learned the melody to the song and began to deliver it in a pitch perfect manner. The post gathered over 28,000 upvotes in one day (seen below).

Also on September 29th, the Redditer provides audio proof of the parrot knowing and delivering a rendition of the infamous song in the form of an update at the end of his original post. The audio is hosted on the website Vocaroo. ^[6] The audio was then used in a YouTube^[7] video titled, "Hudson Mohawke – Cbat (parrot version)." The parrot remix has gathered over 12,000 views in a day (seen below).

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