# Johny Johny Yes Papa Johny Johny Yes Papa is a nursery rhyme about a boy caught eating sugar that turned into a wave of low-budget animated YouTube videos. A 2018 tweet mashing it up with Baby Shark pushed the cursed 3D animations into mainstream meme territory, sparking parodies, dubs and a DMCA takedown spree. ## Origin The rhyme's viral life on YouTube started on July 9, 2009, when the Shemrock Nursery Rhymes channel uploaded an animated version of a boy scolded for eating sugar, set to the Twinkle Twinkle Little Star melody[5]. The clip picked up more than 2.9 million views over its first six years and became the template every other kids channel would copy[1]. The rhyme itself is older and traditional, so no single writer owns it, but the Shemrock upload is the earliest widely cited animated version on YouTube and the one KYM traces the meme lineage back to[1]. - **Platform:** YouTube (source video) / Twitter (viral spread) - **Creator:** Shemrock Nursery Rhymes (original upload) - **Date:** 2009 ## Overview Johny Johny Yes Papa, sometimes spelled Johnny Johnny Yes Papa, is a nursery rhyme built around a short exchange where a father catches his son eating sugar and the boy lies about it before laughing in his face[1]. The tune borrows from Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and the format is almost always the same call and response, which is what made it so easy to parody[3]. What pushed the rhyme into meme status was not the song itself but the flood of amateur animated YouTube videos built around it, ranging from stiff Flash cartoons to poorly rigged 3D characters with dead eyes and off-beat lip sync[2]. Fans described the results as cursed, and Urban Dictionary contributors called it a legendary meme born from copy-paste kids channels chasing YouTube ad revenue[3]. The visual jank plus the child-abuse-adjacent lyrics is the whole joke. By 2018 the format was less about watching the videos straight and more about remixing them, dubbing them over unrelated songs, or splicing the characters into other meme templates[4]. ## How It Spread On June 12, 2012, the Turtle Interactive YouTube channel posted a version in which the father is drawn to look strongly like Peter Griffin from Family Guy, and it pulled around 7.4 million views within three years[6]. The following year, on August 2, 2013, ChuChuTV uploaded its own animated Johny Johny Yes Papa video that crossed 70 million views and thousands of comments in two years[7]. A November 14, 2014 ChuChuTV re-cut then exploded to roughly 282 million views along with a huge dislike count, which is when the format really hit critical mass[1]. On 4chan's /co/ board a thread about the animation went up on June 1, 2014 and hit nearly 200 replies, and two days later the r/johnnyjohnnyyespapa subreddit launched as a home for parodies[1]. YouTubers kept feeding the fire, including EdukayFUN's poorly rendered 3D version from October 9, 2014, where a father catches his son eating sugar, silverware and pigs[8], and a January 29, 2015 super hero kids rhymes clip that swapped the dad for the Incredible Hulk singing at a green child[9]. The biggest mainstream moment came on August 18, 2018, when Twitter user @b6ner posted a BillionSurpriseToys clip that fused Johny Johny Yes Papa with Baby Shark, captioned "i'm losing my fucking mind," pulling more than 113,000 retweets and 270,000 likes in six days[10]. That kicked off waves of remixes, including a Cyranek dub setting the video to Rage Against the Machine's Killing in the Name[11]. Days later, We Bros Media Private Limited, the company behind BillionSurpriseToys, started firing off DMCA takedowns, with YouTuber @Slazo posting a screenshot of the notice and noting a long list of other accounts targeted in the same email[1]. ## How to Use People typically clip a few seconds of one of the animated Johny Johny videos, most often the BillionSurpriseToys or ChuChuTV renders, and either dub it over unrelated audio or splice the characters into another meme format[10]. A common convention is to lean into the cursed 3D look by pairing the childlike visuals with aggressive or absurd music, the way Cyranek's Rage Against the Machine edit did[11]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Johny Johny Yes Papa? A nursery rhyme about a boy caught lying to his father about eating sugar, spread online through low-budget animated YouTube videos and remixed into cursed meme clips[1]. ### Where did Johny Johny Yes Papa come from? The Shemrock Nursery Rhymes YouTube channel uploaded the first widely cited animated version on July 9, 2009, and later kids channels like ChuChuTV and BillionSurpriseToys drove the format's growth[5][7]. ### What does Johny Johny Yes Papa mean? The rhyme is a short call and response between a father and son about eating sugar, and online it became shorthand for the cursed, off-model 3D kids animation aesthetic that flooded YouTube[3]. ### How do you use Johny Johny Yes Papa? People typically take a clip from one of the animated versions and dub it over another song or edit the characters into unrelated meme templates, as with the Baby Shark mashup and the Killing in the Name dub[10][11]. ### Is Johny Johny Yes Papa still popular? It is a classic 2018-era meme rather than a currently trending one, but the original ChuChuTV and BillionSurpriseToys uploads still rack up huge view counts and get referenced in cursed video compilations[1]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5WBzlL-JRQ]() 2. [https://x.com/i/status/1034942420646027264]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/johny-johny-yes-papa]() 4. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Johny%20Johny%20Yes%20Papa]() 5. [https://www.reddit.com/r/johnnyjohnnyyespapa/]() 6. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df9JRoA9jko]() 7. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olWG6jiMV0g]() 8. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHSFpGBFGHY]() 9. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svVSim1xils]() 10. [https://x.com/i/status/1035142925389258752]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/johny-johny-yes-papa Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library