White Guy From Boondocks Dancing

About

White Guy From Boondocks Dancing refers to an exploitable video meme featuring an animated clean-cut white man with gray hair dressed in a white collared shirt and dress pants dancing to Jersey Club music that was popularized on TikTok in 2024. The clip stems from an episode of the animated show The Boondocks about former President Barack Obama that aired in 2010, with TikToker @wyntflynt clipping the scene in which a white man dances to a song with text spelling out "OBAMA" floating around him.

Origin

On May 2nd, 2010, The Boondocks aired an episode titled, "It's a Black President, Huey Freeman." The episode contained a song called "Thugnificent’s Tribute to Obama," which was reposted to Adult Swim's YouTube^[1] channel on May 19th, 2022, where it gathered over 500,000 views in two years. The dancing white man appears at roughly the 2:08 timestamp.

The earliest known post featuring the aforementioned clip of an animated white man dancing to Jersey Club music was a February 26th, 2024, post by TikToker^[2] @wyntflynt, captioned, "POV: Hitting that lil dance in front of the microwave." The post gathered over 900,000 plays and 100,000 likes in six months.

Spread

On March 12th, 2024, TikToker^[3] @drippy.ducky325 posted the clip of a white man from The Boondocks dancing, captioning it, "When an anime character gets brutally killed and it cuts to the ending outro of mfs vibing it out." The post gathered over 100,000 views and 20,000 likes in five months.

On April 29th, 2024, YouTuber^[4] Requiem posted a clip titled, "White man dancing (Boondocks)," showing a clip of the white man from Thugnificent's Tribute to Obama dancing, gathering over 600,000 views in four months.

On August 1st, 2024, TikToker^[5] @cjizzl.e posted the meme with the caption, "When the cops catch me lacking and make me hit a lil jig for em." The post gathered over 900,000 plays and 190,000 likes in three weeks.

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