Young King Dave "I Got Loud" Video

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Young King Dave's "I Got Loud" Video refers to a viral video of New Jersey rapper Young King Dave, real name David Nixon, inviting his Instagram followers to smoke marijuana with him. The video was parodied in the summer of 2017.

Origin

On January 12th, 2017, Nixon posted a video to his Instgram^[1] account asking his followers if they wanted to hang out and smoke. The video has gained over 29,000 views as of August 3rd, 2017 (shown below).

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A post shared by David Nixon (@_youngkingdave) on Jan 12, 2017 at 12:53pm PST

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The video did not go viral until summer of that year. On July 24th, 2017, Twitter user @millsWhyy^[2] uploaded a video in which he remixed Nixon's video with auto-tune, gaining over 10,000 retweets and 18,000 likes (shown below).

pic.twitter.com/xJg03VnUos

— mills (@millsWhyy) July 24, 2017

Two days later, Twitter user @hinduanish^[3] tweeted a video of himself making a remix song out of the clip that gained over 490 retweets and 1,200 likes (shown below).

i had to do it pic.twitter.com/akI8o7x2hB

— anish (@hinduanish) July 26, 2017

As the clip grew popular, it began to be parodied in either text posts or video remixes. For example, Brandon Wardell ^[6] posted a joke using the quote that gained over 250 retweets (shown below, left). Twitter user @leyawn^[5] uploaded a version parodying a recent viral photo of a dog in a hot car using the image, gaining 3,500 retweets (shown below, right). The Daily Dot^[4] covered the meme on August 3rd, 2017.

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