Split image showing a baby's face with 'Mimemamomu slowed + reverb' text next to a surreal image of a shirtless man in a boat under moonlight.

Mimemamomu

2022viral videodeclining

Published October 27, 2026

Mimemamomu, also known as Mi Me Ma Mo Mu, is a TikTok sound taken from an October 2022 clip of vocal coach Cheryl Porter running a vowel warmup with young mariachi singer Mateo Lopez in a car. The original hit nearly 99 million plays, and a slowed and reverb edit from November 2022 fed a CapCut trend called Naik Kapal Malam that places any still image into a green boat drifting on a dark lake.

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Overview

The sound captures Lopez repeating the syllables mi, me, ma, mo and mu in a classical MiMeMaMoMu vocal warmup while Porter cheers "Keep it up" from the driver's seat2. TikTok edits usually loop the moment where Lopez's pitch climbs into a thin falsetto, and the humor sits in the childish wail laid over whatever visual the creator picks6.

Variants fall into two camps. Normal-speed uses lean toward mobile gameplay montages and dubbed cartoon bits, where editors sync Lopez's syllables to action beats5. A slowed and reverb remix, posted by @ilikeyoucutgbozo in November 2022, moved the audio into moodier edits built around the Naik Kapal Malam CapCut template, which composites any still image into a tiny green boat gliding across a dark lake while the vocal floats overhead78.

Origin & Background

Platform
TikTok
Creator
Cheryl Porter
Date
2022

On October 16, 2022, Cheryl Porter, a professional vocal coach who posts as @cherylporterdiva, uploaded a short TikTok of herself in a car with Mateo Lopez, a Texas boy who had been profiled by USA Today earlier that summer as the world's youngest mariachi1. Across the clip, Lopez runs a MiMeMaMoMu vowel exercise and Porter calls back "Keep it up" as he reaches for higher notes2. Within a month the original drew roughly 98.9 million plays and 6.9 million likes6.

How It Spread

Mobile game accounts picked up the audio first, with pages like @jujutsukaisen666 posting the sound over phone-game footage in late October 20223. On October 19, @nem_tudja_senki._ posted a duet imagining the female driver's reaction to Lopez's vocalizing, which drew about 2.5 million plays and 30,900 likes over the next month4. Three days later, @tomsings_music set the audio to a Talking Tom and Friends clip, earning around 23.4 million plays and 627,600 likes inside 24 days5.

A slowed and reverb version from @ilikeyoucutgbozo arrived on November 4, 2022, gathering about 2 million plays and 254,200 likes over 11 days7. That edit then fed the Naik Kapal Malam CapCut template, which places any image into a small green boat on a dark lake. On November 11, @mio11kingmm placed a baby covered in spit-up into that scene and earned roughly 3 million plays and 571,900 likes in four days8.

Timeline

2022-06-19

USA Today profiles Mateo Lopez as the world's youngest mariachi[1].

2022-10-16

Cheryl Porter posts the original car vocal warmup video with Lopez on TikTok[2].

2022-10-19

@nem_tudja_senki._ posts an early duet joking about the female driver's POV[4].

2022-10-22

@tomsings_music sets the sound to a Talking Tom and Friends edit[5].

2022-11-04

@ilikeyoucutgbozo posts the slowed and reverb remix that opens the next wave of edits[7].

2022-11-11

@mio11kingmm uses the slowed audio inside the Naik Kapal Malam CapCut green-boat template[8].

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