Kang Council Cheering — Jonathan Majors as Kang shouting in triumph in front of a massive stadium filled with cheering Kang variants from the Council of Kangs

Kang Council Cheering

2023viral video / exploitabledeclining

Published October 29, 2026

A mid-credits scene from Marvel's 2023 film Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, showing a stadium packed with Kang the Conqueror variants roaring in approval, became a TikTok exploitable in May 2023. Paired with a slowed and reverbed remix of Haddaway's "What Is Love," the clip turned into a POV template about imaginary audiences cheering mundane personal victories.

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Overview

Kang Council Cheering, also called Council of Kangs Cheering or Kangs Celebrando in Spanish, is a video exploitable built from a few seconds of footage showing hundreds of Jonathan Majors-played Kang variants screaming in a packed arena1. On TikTok, creators overlay a POV caption describing some trivial personal win, then let the clip play as the "audience" reaction, scored by a slowed and reverbed remix of Haddaway's "What Is Love"2.

The humor rides on scale mismatch. A multiversal council of warlords is cast as the hype crowd for something small, like winning a shower argument with yourself or buying a video game cosmetic. Posts seldom reference the plot of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania at all, and the format sits closer to Mike O'Hearn's "Baby Don't Hurt Me" edits in tone, trading on the same "What Is Love" audio family1.

Origin & Background

Platform
Marvel film (source) / TikTok (viral spread)
Creator
Unknown
Date
2023

Marvel Studios released Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania in US theaters on February 17th, 2023, and the mid-credits scene cut to a stadium of Kang variants being summoned by three council leaders, roaring their approval3. Marvel developed the film; the meme format was built by fans, not the studio.

The earliest known memetic use came on May 20th, 2023, when TikToker @zxtic_films paired the scene with a POV caption casting the Kangs as shampoo bottles witnessing the poster win an imaginary shower argument4. That video used a slowed and reverbed "What Is Love" remix hosted on TikTok, and the sound became the anchor other creators grabbed when iterating2. Within about 17 days the clip picked up roughly 1.5 million plays and 314,700 likes, per the metrics on the post4.

How It Spread

Through late May 2023, the format filled out on TikTok as more creators recycled the same audio1. On May 21st, TikToker @dlamezzzz posted a version framed as their LEGO figures "watching the greatest battle in history go down," picking up around 302,700 plays and 55,900 likes over 16 days5.

Six days later, on May 27th, TikToker @weihenstephan22 posted an iteration casting the Kang council as the poster's ancestors reacting to them buying the Griddy emote in Fortnite, pulling roughly 3.5 million plays and 671,100 likes in 10 days6. Blank templates of the stadium clip also surfaced on YouTube around the same time for creators who wanted to edit outside TikTok7. The format saw heavy pickup from Spanish-speaking TikTok as well, which is where the "Kangs Celebrando" alias comes from1.

Timeline

2023-02-17

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is released in US theaters, including the mid-credits Council of Kangs scene.

2023-05-20

TikToker @zxtic_films posts the earliest known memetic edit, using the clip as a POV about shampoo bottles.

2023-05-21

TikToker @dlamezzzz posts a LEGO-themed variant that gains over 300,000 plays.

2023-05-27

TikToker @weihenstephan22 posts a Fortnite Griddy variant that crosses 3.5 million plays within 10 days.

2023-05

Blank templates of the stadium clip appear on YouTube, and Spanish-language iterations ("Kangs Celebrando") spread on TikTok.

How to Use This Meme

A typical Kang Council Cheering post keeps the stadium clip untouched and layers a POV caption on top, usually in the format "POV: [small or absurd thing] watching me [action]." Creators commonly keep the TikTok sound (the slowed "What Is Love" remix) rather than muting it, since the audio does most of the comedic work2. Captions often cast inanimate objects, ancestors, or past selves as the stand-in Kang audience.

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