Zendaya Is Meechee

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About

Zendaya Is Meechee refers to a viral video by Gabriel Gundacker, who, in the video, sings the promotional posters for the 2018 animated film Smallfoot for humorous effect, including the poster for the character Meechee, who is voiced by actor Zendaya.

Origin

On September 22nd, 2018, comedian and songwriter Gabriel Gundacker tweeted a video of himself walking by several Smallfoot promotional posters and singing the information found upon them.^[1] He captioned the post, "zendaya is meechee." Within two days, the video received more than 17,000 retweets, 102,000 likes and 4.4 million views (shown below).

Spread

People responded positively to the video, expressing their enjoyment on Twitter. Twitter^[2] user @LouisPeitzman tweeted, "If 'Zendaya is Meechee' isn’t playing on a loop in your head, we have nothing to discuss." The tweet received more than 75 retweets and 755 likes in 24 hours (shown below, left).

Throughout the day, people on Twitter continue to discuss how they could not stop thinking about the song (examples below, center and right).

On September 23rd, Zendaya retweeted the video, adding the comment, "Sang my name right and everything 😂😂😂." The tweet^[3] received more than 3,000 retweets and 49,000 likes in 24 hours.

Several media outlets covered the song, including Billboard,^[4] HuffPost,^[5] Polygon^[6] and more.

On September 24th, Twitter^[7] published a Moments page about the song.