Eddie's Song — Collage of a wide-eyed TikToker with the caption 'eddie baby ain't you sussy,' a blonde girl's profile photo, and Eddie Munson from Stranger

Eddie's Song

2022viral videodead

Published October 16, 2026

Eddie's Song is a fan-made piano ballad written by TikTok singer Sapphire in July 2022 to mourn Stranger Things character Eddie Munson, played by Joseph Quinn. Fan accounts first paired the track with earnest Eddie fancams, but by late August 2022, mocking stitches calling out the lyrics racked up millions of views on TikTok.

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Overview

Eddie's Song runs on simple piano chords and lyrics that address the character directly, including the lines "Eddie baby, I just saw Steve. He's crying his eyes out with Dustin, they're playing D&D" and a chorus declaring "You're a hero"1. Sapphire wrote it as a sincere elegy for a character who had about 20 minutes of cumulative screen time across Stranger Things season four5.

Early fan accounts set the audio against clips of Joseph Quinn's scenes and treated the song as a legitimate memorial. The ironic turn came when wider TikTok audiences zeroed in on the lyrics' claims about Steve and Dustin's grief as out of character, and on the overall emotional pitch as disproportionate for a supporting role5. Reaction stitches typically opened with a few seconds of Sapphire's piano video, then cut to the reactor making an incredulous face or openly laughing4.

Origin & Background

Platform
TikTok (origin) / TikTok (viral mockery)
Creator
Sapphire
Date
2022

On July 16, 2022, TikToker @sapphireofficial posted a short video with the caption "eddie, this is for you <3," in which she played piano and sang the opening verse of what she called Eddie's Song1. The next day, July 17, she uploaded a longer cut with completed lyrics that went viral and drew more than 700,000 plays within a month2.

Sapphire created and performed the track herself; it circulated with no label or official Netflix affiliation. The song was tied to the summer 2022 reaction to the back half of Stranger Things season four, where Eddie Munson's death became a flashpoint for grieving fans5.

How It Spread

Through late July and early August 2022, Stranger Things fan pages set Eddie's Song behind Eddie Munson fancams and tribute edits5. On August 13, Sapphire herself stitched a fan edit and said the versions people were making had her "in tears"6. Most of those sincere edits were later deleted as the song turned into a punchline, though some have been reuploaded by other accounts to keep the joke alive5.

The pivot to mockery hit hardest on August 22. TikToker @machisporksoda reuploaded a deleted video of a fan sobbing while listening to the track, under the original "try to listen to this without crying" overlay; the reupload drew over 2.5 million views and more than 400,000 likes in a single day3. The same day, @dustinhenderson.irl posted a scornful reaction captioned "some people just shouldn't be allowed to write music," which hit 3.8 million views and 500,000 likes within 24 hours4.

TikToker @punpunloverr joined the pile-on with a reaction captioned "… what is THIS 💀" that reached 1.4 million plays and over 200,000 likes in the same window7. After that week, active circulation faded as Stranger Things season four discussion cooled.

Timeline

2022-07-16

Sapphire posts the first short version of Eddie's Song to TikTok with the caption "eddie, this is for you <3"[1].

2022-07-17

Sapphire uploads an extended cut with completed lyrics; the video goes viral with over 700,000 plays in a month[2].

2022-08-13

Sapphire stitches a fan-cam set to the song and says the edits have her "in tears"[6].

2022-08-22

Multiple TikTok reaction videos mocking the song go viral; @dustinhenderson.irl's reaction reaches 3.8 million views and @machisporksoda's reupload hits 2.5 million[3][4].

How to Use This Meme

Mockery stitches typically splice a clip from Sapphire's TikTok with a silent close-up of the reactor's face, often captioned with lines like "what is THIS 💀" or jokes about the lyrics7. Sincere uses were edits that overlaid the audio on Eddie Munson tribute footage, most of which were deleted after the backlash5.

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