From the Screen 📺 To the Ring 🥊 To the Pen 🖊️ To the King 👑

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tuv @mynameistuvv Hey @KSI I drew you! Lmao haven't drawn in years but decided it was time to use my hidden talent for my favorite artist From the screen to the ring to the pen to the king 9:15 PM - Oct 9, 2024-95.9K Views

Nick Eh 30 @NickEh30 · Oct 9 . 100 fortnite players react to KSI's new song 60FPS 160600 EH 0:18 25 116 OREL REELS ... -0:20 32 088 333 17 1.5K 34K 1.7M ☐ 1 Bob the minion (parody) @Bobisminion From the screen wheres my crown to the ring ☎ to the PEN to the king ... thats my bling always trouble when i reign . 3:14 PM Oct 9, 2024 93.8K Views

ksi @KSI • Oct 8 Omfg, he deleted the tweet I cba. Why does everyone hate me?!?!? how y'all feel about this new song? cc for the culture @iCurate Culture. 1d KSI - Thick Of It (feat. Trippie Redd) ↓ 17:40 7/10/2024 32K Views 40 1732 Most relevant replies > 3.9K Midas @M1das_OW2 214 24 CC 11.3K 43K ili 7.9M 1 From the screen my crown to the ring that's my bling to the pen $ $ always trouble to the king! Where's when I ring • 2:46 PM Oct 8, 2024 518.3K Views •

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About

From the Screen 📺 To the Ring 🥊 To the Pen 🖊️ To the King 👑 is a copypasta based on a lyric from YouTuber KSI's 2024 hip-hop song "Thick of It." Following the largely poor reception of the song by many online after its release in early October 2024, the copypasta gained virality as a spam comment and as a way to troll KSI on social media.

Origin

On October 3rd, 2024, YouTuber KSI's rap song "Thick of It" featuring Trippie Red premiered on YouTube^[1] and music streaming services. In the song, KSI raps about his life journey, with the lyric "From the screen to the ring to the pen to the king" referencing him starting his career as a gaming YouTuber and then expanding to boxing and music and reaching success. The music video (shown below) garnered over 15 million views on YouTube in eight days.

In the wake of KSI's recent Lunchly controversy, the song was received poorly online by numerous users, inspiring various memes and jokes mocking it.

For example, on October 3rd, 2024, TikTok^[2] user @marquitos.g posted a parody video captioned, "How KSI felt in the studio singing this," which received over 29.9 million views and 3.1 million likes in eight days (shown below).

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7421302734051216683

Later on October 3rd, Redditor unsignificant figure posted the TikTok to the /r/ksi subreddit, pairing it with an emoji-filled copypasta based on the "From the screen" lyric. The post (shown below) garnered over 6,600 upvotes in eight days.

From the screen 📺 to the ring 🥊 to the pen 🖊️ to the king 👑! Where’s my crown 👑 🤷‍♂️ that’s my bling 💍 🤑 always trouble 😈 when I ring 📞

Spread

In the following week, the copypasta saw viral spread online as the lyrics were used as a spam comment and users replying with it to KSI's posts on X / Twitter as a way of trolling the YouTuber.

For example, on October 8th, 2024, X^[3] user @RoarWeb3 posted a version of the copypasta in a reply to KSI's post, gaining over 1,400 reposts and 149,000 likes in three days (shown below).

Additionally, the lyric appeared in various edits on TikTok and YouTube. For example, on October 9th, 2024, TikTok^[4] user @timonsdream posted a Demon Slayer meme in which the protagonist Tanjiro Kamado performs the song in the studio before being cut off. The post (shown below) received over 91,000 views and 20,000 likes on TikTok in two days.