DJ Bouncin' Beats

Submission 904

About

DJ Bouncin' Beats is a Fisher-Price toy that includes a microphone which, when spoken into, repeats what the person says in a song while the animatronic bounces up and down. The DJ Bouncin' Beats toy went viral on social media sites like TikTok, Instagram and YouTube in 2023 and 2024 when people discovered that they could moan into the device to make it sound and look like the toy was having intercourse. The prank involved moaning into the toy at department stores (sometimes using multiple toys in the store) to create viral videos.

History

DJ Bouncin' Beats was trademarked by Mattel, Inc. on September 28th, 2021.^[6] Mattel's Fisher-Price began distributing the toy in 2022. For instance, on September 7th, 2022, Mattel posted a YouTube^[7] video that was an advertisement for DJ Bouncin' Beats, gaining over 226,800 views in two years (shown below).

Online Presence

On January 4th, 2023, TikToker^[1] @scottiecards posted a video of himself moaning into a DJ Bouncin' Beats toy at a department store. The toy then bounced up and down and moaned. The video received over 13.4 million plays and 2.1 million likes in two years (shown below).

In the following days, other TikTokers added to the trend, like TikToker^[2] @lexiamerica1 on January 23rd, whose video gained over 34.2 million plays and 4.5 million likes over the same timeframe (shown below).

Viral videos of DJ Bouncin' Beats continued in 2024. For instance, on July 8th, 2024, TikToker^[5] @vanillamace posted a video of her playing with children's toys at Target, including a DJ Bouncin' Beats. She spoke, "They hit the fucking Pentagon," into the toy. Her video received over 18 million plays and 4.5 million likes in five months (shown below).

On August 3rd, Twitter / X^[4] user @lmxstn reposted the abovementioned video, writing, "This is the funniest fucking thing I have ever seen in my life." The tweet received over 3.6 million views and 102,000 likes in four months (shown below).

On November 13th, 2024, TikToker^[3] @mr.ctrl.frk shared a compilation of five DJ Bouncin' Beats videos, gaining over 3.3 million plays and 459,500 likes in 20 days (shown below).