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lilgayboy45

2022viral videodead

Published October 17, 2026

A TikTok account named lilgayboy45 posted its first stitch in July 2022, cutting a Jimmy Fallon clip to a black screen flashing its username over a text-to-speech jingle. Within three days the bait-and-switch format earned millions of plays, and by late 2022 TikTok banned the account. Copycat profiles like Pastacat48 and Goofydoggy13 kept the gag going with new usernames.

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Overview

Every lilgayboy45 upload followed the same bait-and-switch recipe. A TikTok stitch would start with an unrelated clip, usually something popular on the For You page, then abruptly cut to a black screen with the word "lilgayboy45" in white text while a sing-song text-to-speech voice chanted the username as a short jingle1. The payoff was the gag itself: viewers expected a reaction or follow-up, and instead got the account's handle.

As the account went viral in mid-2022, other TikTokers started weaving the jingle into their own videos and inventing variations on the username8. Spin-off accounts including Pastacat48 and Goofydoggy13 copied the exact format, stitching random videos with their own black-screen interruptions and TTS songs8. Urban Dictionary entries from the same window described the catchy singing TTS voice as the whole point of the appeal9.

Origin & Background

Platform
TikTok
Creator
@lilgayboy45
Date
2022

On July 17th, 2022, the TikTok account @lilgayboy45 posted its debut stitch using a clip from the official Tonight Show account, in which Jimmy Fallon dressed as Vecna from Stranger Things attempted the Coke and Mentos Challenge2. The stitch cut Fallon off with the signature black screen and jingle, and racked up around 362,100 plays and 49,400 likes in four days before the video and account were later removed18.

How It Spread

The jingle took off on July 18th, 2022, when @lilgayboy45 posted a stitch with verified TikToker Joe Bartolozzi that drew roughly 1.9 million plays and 418,900 likes over three days3. A second July 18th stitch, this one cutting into a McDonald's cheeseburger video with an onion described as a "saturn ring," reached about 3.3 million plays and 510,500 likes in the same window4. Through late July, other TikTokers started dropping the TTS jingle into their own uploads, and a YouTube rip of the song circulated as a standalone audio file7.

On July 20th, 2022, TikToker @myeloidin posted a short video reporting that the lilgayboy45 account had been removed, drawing around 99,100 plays and 13,600 likes in one day5. The ban did not stick. Later that same day, @lilgayboy45 returned with a post reading "guess who's back 😈," which earned roughly 946,900 plays and 49,100 likes within 24 hours6. TikTok permanently banned the account in late 2022, by which point the copycats Pastacat48 and Goofydoggy13 were already running the same format8.

Timeline

2022-07-17

@lilgayboy45 posts its first stitch, interrupting a Jimmy Fallon Vecna clip with the black-screen jingle[1].

2022-07-18

A stitch with verified TikToker Joe Bartolozzi hits roughly 1.9 million plays in three days[3].

2022-07-18

A stitch with a McDonald's cheeseburger "saturn ring" video reaches about 3.3 million plays[4].

2022-07-20

TikToker @myeloidin reports the lilgayboy45 account has been removed[5].

2022-07-20

@lilgayboy45 posts a "guess who's back 😈" return video that reaches about 946,900 plays in one day[6].

2022-12

TikTok permanently bans @lilgayboy45; copycat accounts Pastacat48 and Goofydoggy13 keep the format going[8].

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