# Redbone Redbone is a 2016 Childish Gambino single that became a Twitter remix format in May 2017 after user @chloestixx posted a heavily muffled version captioned as what the song would sound like from a house party bathroom. The joke spawned dozens of situational audio remixes that flipped the sensual R&B track into an absurd sound design exercise. ## Origin "Redbone" was released on November 17th, 2016 as the second single off Awaken, My Love!, and Donald Glover's original video was uploaded to YouTube the same month[4]. It became Childish Gambino's first top 40 hit and later played over the opening and closing credits of Get Out[1]. The meme itself started on May 14th, 2017, when Twitter user @chloestixx posted a heavily muffled edit of the track with the caption "What Redbone would sound like while you're making out in the bathroom of a house party." The tweet pulled in tens of thousands of retweets and set the template for everything that followed[5][1]. - **Platform:** Twitter - **Creator:** @chloestixx - **Date:** 2017 ## Overview Redbone is a Childish Gambino song from his 2016 album Awaken, My Love! that became a Twitter audio-meme format in May 2017[1]. The joke rides on a specific sonic quality: heavy low-pass filtering and muffled reverb that makes the track sound like it's playing through a wall. Users caption these edits with increasingly specific scenarios, most of them set in the bathroom of a house party[2]. The format works because Redbone's slow, bass-heavy groove already sounds moody and distant, so cranking the muffled effect up sells the bit instantly[3]. Once @chloestixx set the template, remixers stacked new sound layers over the muffled audio, urination sounds, video game noises, rapper adlibs, so each variation reads as a mini sound-design gag rather than a straight repost[2]. The song was already culturally charged from its use in Jordan Peele's Get Out, which helped keep it lodged in listeners' heads through the spring of 2017[1]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Redbone? Redbone is a 2016 Childish Gambino song that became a Twitter audio-remix meme in May 2017, built around muffled edits captioned as the track playing from a house party bathroom[1]. ### Where did Redbone come from? The meme started with a May 14th, 2017 tweet from @chloestixx that captioned a heavily muffled edit of the song as what it would sound like while making out in a house party bathroom[5]. ### What does Redbone mean? Outside the meme, "redbone" is slang used within Black American communities for a light-skinned person with red undertones, and historically for a specific tri-racial group in Louisiana[8]. In meme context, it's shorthand for the Childish Gambino song and its muffled-audio remixes[1]. ### How do you use Redbone? The format typically takes a muffled edit of the song and adds a caption placing it in a specific scenario, often a bathroom setting, sometimes layered with extra sound effects or rapper adlibs like @YungMondi's Famous Dex version[2]. ### Is Redbone still popular? The muffled-bathroom Twitter format peaked in May 2017 during the initial remix wave, and the song itself is still a widely recognized Childish Gambino hit thanks to its Get Out placement and top 40 chart run[1]. ## References 1. [https://www.xxlmag.com/famous-dex-childish-gambino-redbone/]() 2. [https://x.com/i/status/866425354092662784]() 3. [https://x.com/i/status/866495637969281024]() 4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp7eSUU9oy8]() 5. [https://x.com/i/status/863645128929361920]() 6. [https://x.com/i/status/866136120613982209]() 7. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/redbone]() 8. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Redbone]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/redbone Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library