James Charles "Womp Womp Womp Yeah Yeah Yeah" — Close-up of James Charles with mouth open wide under purple and pink lighting

James Charles "Womp Womp Womp Yeah Yeah Yeah"

2019viral videosemi-active

Published November 10, 2026

James Charles's February 2019 Snapchat of himself singing along to Tyga's "Taste" from a limo backseat turned into a mocking audio clip, as viewers fixated on his strained "whomp whomp whomp" and "yeahyayay" delivery1. By March 2019, Charles was recreating the moment inside a YouTube makeup tutorial, and TikTok impressions of the vocals circulated into 20213.

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Overview

Short loops of the Snap zero in on the half-second stretch where Charles leans toward his phone and lets out a pinched "whomp whomp whomp," then slides into a rising "yeahyayay" meant to approximate the song's hook1. Stan Twitter typically pairs the audio or a screenshot of Charles mid-note with a caption like "me every time I see James Charles singing," using the clip as a reaction for any secondhand embarrassment4.

Later TikTok and YouTube impressions mimic the limo setting, the wide eye contact with the camera and the stretched vowels Charles makes near the end of each line3. Fans sometimes write the audio phonetically as "whoomp whoomp" or "woop woop," copying how Charles himself rendered the sounds in a follow-up tweet5.

Origin & Background

Platform
Snapchat (origin) / YouTube and Twitter (viral spread)
Creator
James Charles
Date
2019

James Charles filmed the clip on February 7, 2019, singing along to Tyga's "Taste" featuring Offset while riding in the backseat of a limo6. He added a text overlay reading "Quitting makeup to become Tyga's background singer" and posted the Snap Story to Snapchat. On February 8, YouTube channel Egg Ed screen-recorded the Story and reuploaded it as a standalone video, where it grew to roughly 3.1 million views and 76,000 likes by 20221.

How It Spread

Fan reactions appeared within a day of the YouTube repost. On February 8, 2019, Twitter user @legallyines tweeted a mocking transcription of the sounds Charles made, drawing more than 350 likes over three years2. The same day, @grapejuicesbIue captioned a clip of actor Matt Bomer with "Me every time I see James Charles singing," using the audio as a stand-in for visible discomfort4.

Charles joined the joke two weeks later. On February 22, 2019, he tweeted "whoomp whoomp whoomp whoomp whoomp whoomp heyeeyayeeeyeah heyeeyayeeeyeah," a post that collected roughly 154,400 likes over three years5. One month after that, he recreated the vocals around the 21-minute mark of a March 22, 2019, makeup tutorial, saying "'W' is for, womp womp womp" while applying product, and a standalone eight-second reupload of the recreation reached close to 858,900 views by 20223.

Edits circulated on TikTok and YouTube into the 2020s7. Fan channels stitched the vocals into produced tracks, including an April 2021 upload framed as the "Whomp Whomp Whomp (Official Music Video)" that collected about 5,000 views in its first year8.

Timeline

2019-02-07

James Charles posts the original Snapchat Story of himself singing along to Tyga's "Taste" in a limo, with text overlay "Quitting makeup to become Tyga's background singer."[6]

2019-02-08

YouTube channel Egg Ed screen-records the Snap and reuploads it as a standalone video, which grows to about 3.1 million views[1].

2019-02-08

Twitter users @legallyines and @grapejuicesbIue post the earliest known reaction tweets, treating the vocals as a template for cringe[2].

2019-02-22

Charles tweets the vocals phonetically as "whoomp whoomp whoomp... heyeeyayeeeyeah," drawing roughly 154,400 likes[5].

2019-03-22

Charles recreates the "womp womp womp" moment inside a YouTube makeup tutorial around the 21-minute mark[3].

2019-04-24

A reupload isolating the eight-second recreation clip is posted to YouTube, where it reaches close to 858,900 views[3].

2021-04-27

A fan channel posts a stitched "Whomp Whomp Whomp (Official Music Video)" treating the vocals as a produced track[8].

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How to Use This Meme

Posters typically clip the "whomp whomp whomp" and "yeahyayay" audio over a reaction shot of a person covering their face or looking away, or pair a still of Charles mid-note with a self-deprecating caption about awkward singing or visible cringe4. Phonetic spellings like "whoomp whoomp" and "woop woop" in a caption are the common written form5.

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