TikTok Buffer Video

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About

The TikTok Buffer Video refers to a viral video on TikTok that crashes the application when it plays on a user's phone. The video shows a young red-headed boy sitting at a computer with headphones on. It then glitches when it cuts to a stretched photo of his face. The Buffer Video went viral on TikTok in October 2025. The video used the same technique as the 'Your TikTok Will Crash In: 07' Spinning Bread video from 2023. The video's virality led to multiple fake reposts in which bait-and-switch media was added to prank the viewer.

Origin

Sometime on or before October 6th, 2025, an unknown TikToker shared a video of a red-headed boy sitting at a computer with headphones on. The video then cuts to a stretched version of the boy's face. Users claimed that the video crashed their phones, as seen in a video from TikToker^[1] @randomguy_675, who recorded their brother watching the video on October 7th, gaining over 1.3 million likes in two days.

The earliest known repost of the original video was shared by TikToker^[2] @bobnz38 on October 6th, gaining over 124,300 likes in three days.

It's currently unconfirmed who the red-headed kid is in the original video. However, some accounts, like the TikTok^[3] page @rambletrick3, reposted some of his other photos and videos, likely before his account was deleted.

One photo reposted by TikToker^[4] @rambletrick3 showed the kid holding up the Buffer Video on his phone.

Another image, seemingly of the same red-headed kid, has surfaced in numerous posts on Instagram^[6] and TikTok^[7] in 2025, showing him with his hair combed down and looking at his webcam for a selfie. Some on TikTok^[5] call the boy Cepik Sebastian.

Spread

In the following days, many TikTokers reposted the original Buffer Video, such as TikToker^[8] @polarbearwastaken on October 7th, 2025, gaining over 45,700 likes in two days.

Also on October 7th, TikToker^[9] @bluegiftbag69420 shared a video of themself watching one of the Buffer Video reposts with the caption, "Buffer Video is not for the weak bro." Over two days, the TikTok received roughly 122,000 likes.

On October 8th, 2025, TikToker^[10] @kawaiigachafurry shared an edited version of the Buffer Video that bait-and-switch pranked the viewer with a Rickroll, gaining over 3,600 likes in a day.