Lil Yachty Walks Out On Stage

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About

Lil Yachty Walks Out On Stage is an exploitable meme format featuring a viral video of American rapper Lil Yachty walking out onto a stage with a large audience and dancing. In April 2024, the clip began to spread online in edited forms, with Yachty being replaced by other people using a rotoscoping app called Viggle AI. Some famous personalities edited on Yachty include Sam Bankman-Fried and Joker.

Origin

American rapper Lil Yachty performed in the August 2021 Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash concert, with a clip of him walking out on stage to a lively audience gaining traction online in subsequent months. A clip of Yachty walking out was posted to YouTube^[1] on June 20th, 2022, where it gathered over 4 million views in two years (seen below).

Spread

The video came to be reposted in subsequent years, with fans admiring Yachty's stage presence. On June 18th, 2023, X^[6] user @mosthiphop reposted the clip with the caption, "lil yachty with the most legendary walk out to concert I’ve ever seen," gathering over 100,000 likes in a year (seen below).

lil yachty with the most legendary walk out to concert i’ve ever seen pic.twitter.com/QuKbdQIDff https://t.co/ssW8Zrg2FY

— Wost🐰 (@mosthiphop) June 18, 2023

The video also came to be used as a reaction meme, as seen in an April 6th, 2023, post by X^[7] user @Jai_Mcintosh and a March 8th, 2024, post by X^[8] user @notsobann, both gathering over 1,000 likes each in roughly a year (seen below).

Jai McIntosh @Jai_Mcintosh Lampard walking into Cobham this morning 0:01 From mariano • 4:09 AM Apr 6, 2023 69.1K Views

Fabrizio Romano @Fabrizio Romano Mar 8 Lamine Yamal scores fantastic goal... and it's 13 G/A contributions this season for the 16 year old talent. He will turn 17 in July. 3 15 LAMIKE VAMAL 27 (UNHCR ACNUR GONDOLA 22 ♡ 83K lil 3.9M 15.5K 794 @notsobann yamal making his Way to the school after dropping another masterclass 0:17 From 3 4:38 PM Mar 8, 2024 62.6K Views

2024 AI Rotoscope Edits

On April 8th, 2024, X^[2] account @AIWarper made a post showing how they turned Yachty into Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker using an app called Viggle AI. The post gathered over 3,000 likes in four days (seen below).

Viggle AI Experiment 💙 This is an incredible tool for style transfer.Details and link to Discord below 👇 As always, if you enjoy this content please kindly like and share! pic.twitter.com/1qW8H0MuwX

— A.I.Warper (@AIWarper) April 8, 2024

On April 11th, X^[3] user @CensoredMen posted a video showing Adolf Hitler rotoscoped onto the clip of Lil Yachty. The post gathered over 120,000 likes in a day (seen below).

AI is evolving at unprecedented rates 💀 pic.twitter.com/NYEzXAokNY

— Censored Men (@CensoredMen) April 11, 2024

Also on April 11th, 2024, X^[4] user @betafuzz posted a clip of Sam Bankman Fried edited onto Yachty's clip, gathering over 7,000 likes in a day (seen below).

pic.twitter.com/BqsmP40EDH

— betafuzz (@betafuzz) April 11, 2024

X^[5] account @PerSources also posted an edited video, this time showing NBA athlete Nikola Jokic walking out on stage instead of Yachty. The post gathered over 5,000 likes in a day (seen below).

Nikola Jokic on his way to accept his 3rd MVP award like pic.twitter.com/4DWUb5bzVO

— Per Sources (@PerSources) April 11, 2024

Various Examples

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— mememandir (@mememandir) April 12, 2024

$JPM Jamie Dimon showing up to the conference call this morning after reporting $42.55 billion in revenue pic.twitter.com/u9bsvxUnSc

— Stocktwits (@Stocktwits) April 12, 2024