# Apparently Kid Apparently Kid is the viral August 2014 news interview starring Noah Ritter, a five-year-old from Pennsylvania who took over reporter Sofia Ojeda's microphone at the Wayne County Fair and delivered a monologue punctuated by the word 'apparently.' The clip cleared 4.1 million YouTube views within 48 hours and made Ritter a short-run morning-show fixture. ## Overview Apparently Kid is a viral news interview clip starring Noah Ritter, a five-year-old from Pennsylvania who took over a local news segment at the Wayne County Fair in August 2014. The clip caught fire because Ritter grabbed the microphone from WNEP Newswatch 16 reporter Sofia Ojeda and delivered a stream-of-consciousness monologue about fair rides, his grandpa, and the Powerball, punctuating nearly every thought with the word 'apparently'[1]. He used 'apparently' eight times in about a minute of screen time[4]. The appeal was pure precocity: a redheaded kindergartner in a neon green polo confidently informing viewers he had 'never been on live television before,' then behaving as if he had been doing it for years[2]. Local outlet WNEP uploaded the segment to YouTube, and it spread across entertainment blogs within a day[3]. Ritter's delivery, all cadence and false confidence, made him an instant recurring bit on morning shows for the rest of the summer[4]. ## How It Spread On August 5, 2014, Laughing Squid, UpRoxx, E!Online, Us Magazine and Jezebel each published pickups of the interview within hours of one another[5]. E!Online joked that Ritter sounded 'like a bona fide correspondent reporting from the middle of a hurricane,' borrowing the line from a Jezebel commenter[2]. Us Magazine noted that Al Roker had already worked the clip into a Today show segment, calling Ritter 'this generation's Mason Reese,' a reference to the 1970s child commercial actor[3]. The hashtags took off in parallel. WNEP's own Twitter account tagged the interview with #NoahtheReporter, which was posted more than 150 times in 48 hours[5]. Separately, a Twitter user named treyschmaltz coined #ApparentlyKid, and that tag cleared 1,000 posts in the same window[5]. The competing hashtags map neatly onto how the clip traveled, one from local news wanting to own the story, one from a random user branding the boy as a character. By the Wednesday after the fair segment aired, Ritter was on the Today show telling co-hosts he was tired of the word 'apparently,' and admitting he did not know how to spell it or what it meant, offering 'Wow, this is apparently annoying' as example usage[4]. On September 11, 2014, Ellen DeGeneres brought him on her show, where he told her he was 'over' his catchphrase and waved to his grandpa in the audience[6]. The Ellen clip cleared 570,000 views within a day[5]. A Fresh Pet pet food commercial featuring Ritter, in which he deadpans 'apparently my first TV commercial,' followed one day later[5]. ## How to Use The clip functions less as a template and more as a stock reaction quote. People typically drop 'apparently' (with the same emphatic pause Ritter uses) into captions and replies when stating something obvious, or share screenshots of Ritter mid-sentence, mouth open, as a reaction image. The full video is often reshared whenever a similar 'kid steals local news segment' clip surfaces, as the benchmark comparison[1]. ## Cultural Impact The interview turned Noah Ritter into a short-run media personality, with follow-up bookings on the Today show, ABC News, NBC and Ellen inside about six weeks[4][6]. Al Roker's Mason Reese comparison placed the clip in a longer line of child TV oddities picked up by adult morning audiences[3]. The Fresh Pet dog food commercial pushed the joke into paid advertising within roughly five weeks of the original upload[5]. In interviews Ritter said he wanted to be a paleontologist rather than a reporter, and by his Today appearance he was already telling anchors 'I'm tired of it,' meaning saying 'apparently'[4]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Apparently Kid? Apparently Kid is the nickname given to Noah Ritter, a five-year-old whose August 2014 Wayne County Fair news interview went viral for his overuse of the word 'apparently'[1]. ### Where did Apparently Kid come from? The clip was filmed on August 4, 2014 at the Wayne County Fair in Pennsylvania, where WNEP Newswatch 16 reporter Sofia Ojeda interviewed Ritter about the fair rides[3]. ### What does Apparently Kid mean? The name references Ritter's habit of starting nearly every sentence with 'apparently' during the WNEP interview, a word he used eight times in about a minute[4]. ### How do you use Apparently Kid? Common usage involves quoting 'apparently' with Ritter's emphatic delivery in captions or replies, or sharing the original WNEP clip and screenshots of him mid-monologue[1]. ### Is Apparently Kid still popular? The 2014 WNEP video remains one of the classic viral local-news moments and is often cited whenever a similar 'kid takes over the mic' segment surfaces[5]. ### Who is the real Apparently Kid? Noah Ritter, a then five-year-old from Pennsylvania who wanted to be a paleontologist when he grew up[2]. ### Did Noah Ritter know what 'apparently' meant? No. On the Today show he admitted 'I don't know how to spell apparently' and 'I don't know what it means,' but offered 'Wow, this is apparently annoying' as example usage[4]. ### Did Apparently Kid appear on Ellen? Yes. Ellen DeGeneres interviewed Ritter on her show on September 11, 2014, and the segment cleared 570,000 YouTube views within a day[6]. ### What was #NoahtheReporter? It was the hashtag WNEP's Twitter account pushed alongside the interview upload, and it was posted more than 150 times in the first 48 hours[5]. ### Who coined #ApparentlyKid? Twitter user treyschmaltz introduced the #ApparentlyKid tag on August 4, 2014, and it cleared 1,000 posts within 48 hours[5]. ### Was there an Apparently Kid commercial? Yes. On September 12, 2014, Fresh Pet released a pet food commercial featuring Ritter, in which he deadpans 'apparently my first TV commercial'[5]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz5TGN7eUcM]() 2. [https://www.eonline.com/news/566273/adorable-little-boy-makes-his-live-tv-debut-is-apparently-the-best-news-anchor-ever]() 3. [https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/apparently-kid-noah-ritter-owns-tv-interview-at-county-fair-201458/]() 4. [https://www.today.com/entertainment/apparently-awesome-noah-admits-he-doesnt-know-what-apparently-means-1D80027427]() 5. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/apparently-kid]() 6. [https://mashable.com/2014/09/11/apparently-kid-ellen/]() 7. [https://jezebel.com/apparently-kid-apparently-has-no-idea-what-apparently-m-1617007407]() 8. [https://jezebel.com/this-kid-is-the-best-thing-to-happen-to-local-news-sinc-1616281527]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/apparently-kid Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library