"Thinking With My Dick" / Mardi Gras Guy

About

"Thinking With My Dick" is a song by Kevin Gates that gained virality on TikTok after a video of a man named Steven Barbosa, aka Mardi Gras Guy, dancing to it went viral. The video was posted to TikTok in March 2022 and inspired users to thirst over the man that month. It also inspired a dance trend where TikTokers perform the same dance as Barbosa over the song, pointing their fingers on one hand to the sky while bouncing to the beat.

Origin

On March 2nd, 2022, TikToker^[1] @johneweatherall posted a video of a middle-aged white man named Steven Barbosa dancing and singing the 2013 song "Thinkin' With My Dick" at Mardi Gras, gaining over 28.6 million views in a week (shown below). The man in the video is Steven Barbosa, who goes by @only1barbosa on TikTok^[2] and Instagram.^[3]

Spread

The video inspired many TikTokers to thirst over the man in the video, calling him a daddy and expressing their want for an older white man. For example, on March 6th and 7th, TikTokers @karen_canipe and @kkfall310 posted videos expressing lust for Mardi Gras Guy, gaining over 1.8 million and 1.4 million views respectively in under a week (shown below, left and right).

The video also inspired a dance trend where TikTokers^[4][5] perform the same dance as Barbosa (examples shown below, left and right).

On the same day, TikToker @isabanks23 posted a video about how their whole For You Page is filled with videos about Mardi Gras Guy, gaining over 500,000 views in two days (shown below, left). On March 10th, TikToker and news reporter @officialnickkosir posted a meme using the video to describe how he's thinking about partying on the weekend, gaining over a million views in one day (shown below, right).

Various Examples

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