# Here Comes Pacman Here Comes Pacman is a viral video clip pulled from The Bloodhound Gang's 2001 music video for 'Mope,' in which a 3D-rendered Pac-Man offers crack cocaine to two acquaintances before lighting up himself and dancing to a remix of his own theme. The clip drifted through YouTube reuploads for years before spawning a wave of Replacement Remix edits in 2017. ## Origin The scene started in 2001 inside The Bloodhound Gang's music video for 'Mope,' a track built on samples of Falco's 'Rock Me Amadeus,' Metallica's 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' and Pac-Man's own arcade theme, where a Pac-Man cameo drops the crack line[1]. On July 6th, 2006, YouTube user haakor uploaded a fan re-edit that swapped the first two lines of dialogue and passed 695,000 views, giving the 3D model its standalone home online[3]. haakor claimed the underlying video dated back to 2001, though its actual pre-YouTube origin is unclear. - **Platform:** Music video / YouTube (viral spread) - **Creator:** The Bloodhound Gang - **Date:** 2001 ## Overview The heart of Here Comes Pacman is a short sketch anchored by the awkward drug-offering exchange, then Pac-Man's giggling dance to a warped version of the arcade theme[1]. Editors leave the low-poly 3D visuals untouched and swap the audio, treating the footage as a Replacement Remix template popular on YouTube. Recognition comes from the chirpy dance, the stiff animation, and Pac-Man's specific hand-gesture invitation. The tone leans absurdist shock-comedy rather than pointed satire. Common variations include pitch-shifted vocals, harmonized layers stacked over the theme, and pirate or celebrity soundboards dubbed across the dialogue. The phrase itself has drifted well outside the meme's orbit, with Urban Dictionary cataloging an unrelated slang usage for keyboard crud under the same name[2]. ## How It Spread The clip mostly sat dormant until June 2015, when Tumblr user phalania reblogged it captioned 'here come dat boi!!,' feeding the parallel Dat Boi wave breaking on Tumblr that summer[3]. That crossover reintroduced the Pac-Man footage to a younger audience unfamiliar with the Bloodhound Gang video. YouTube edit activity kicked off on January 6th, 2016, when YouTuber moozey posted a harmonized cut of the scene at over 17,000 views, and 2017 delivered a broader Replacement Remix wave: YouTuber Flutter's May 31st, 2017 pitched-down edit crossed 26,000 views, the SiIvaGunner-adjacent channel VvvvaVvvvvr built out a 'Pacman Smoking Crack' playlist of over 80 audio edits, a screeching Pac-Man clip broke 160,000 views, and a pirate-dubbed version cleared 113,000[3]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Here Comes Pacman? A viral video clip from The Bloodhound Gang's 2001 music video for 'Mope,' where a 3D-rendered Pac-Man offers crack to two friends before lighting up himself and dancing to his theme song[1]. ### Where did Here Comes Pacman come from? The scene first aired in 2001 inside The Bloodhound Gang's music video for the song 'Mope,' as a brief Pac-Man cameo built around samples of that track's arcade theme[1]. ### What does Here Comes Pacman mean? It works as absurdist shock-comedy, playing the mismatch between a family-friendly video game character and the crack-cocaine setup completely straight for laughs[1]. ### How do you use Here Comes Pacman? Editors typically keep the 3D Pac-Man clip on screen untouched and swap the audio, replacing the theme song with pitch-shifted vocals, harmonies, or a jarringly incongruous track[1]. ### Is Here Comes Pacman still popular? The clip peaked with the 2017 Replacement Remix wave on YouTube and is now more edit-culture classic than active viral, while the phrase itself lingers in unrelated slang uses like the keyboard-crud entry on Urban Dictionary[2]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaduxxx61z8]() 2. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Here%20Comes%20Pacman]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/here-comes-pacman]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/here-comes-pacman Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library