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Top 10 Goobie Woobies

2022viral videoclassic

Published November 9, 2026

Top 10 Goobie Woobies, also called Gooby Woobies, is a TikTok sound by user @epic.mac who narrates a list of ten made-up names like Goopoo Loopoo and TJ Cream over pictures of random animals and objects. Posted in September 2022, the audio sat quiet for months before exploding in April and May 2023 as creators built new slideshows of bugs, cats and urban-exploration finds around the original voiceover.

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Overview

The joke of Top 10 Goobie Woobies, or Gooby Woobies, rests entirely on nonsense. @epic.mac never says what a goobie woobie actually is, he just counts down ten of them in a flat, deadpan voice while unrelated images flash on screen1. The term is slang with no fixed meaning, and the humor comes from applying a serious list-video format, the kind you would see on a YouTube countdown channel, to pictures of a crab, a ceiling tile or a stuffed animal5.

Remixes keep the full original audio and swap the visuals. Common pairings include bugs, cats, cryptids and photos from abandoned buildings, with each image timed to one of the invented names like Goopoo Loopoo or TJ Cream2. Creators often lean into a theme, so the top ten becomes ten moths, ten dinosaurs or ten pieces of trash on a sidewalk, which gives the absurd names a false sense of structure3.

Origin & Background

Platform
TikTok
Creator
@epic.mac
Date
2022

On September 17th, 2022, TikTok user @epic.mac posted the source video, a countdown of ten goobie woobies with no explanation of the term and ten invented names read over images of random creatures and objects1. The post picked up roughly 616,000 views over the following eight months, according to the Know Your Meme entry documenting the clip5.

@epic.mac is the meme's creator in the sense that the audio, the names and the list format all originated with that single video. He did not coin a wider joke, he recorded a specific soundtrack that other TikTokers later used as a template.

How It Spread

The sound traveled slowly at first. On October 14th, 2022, TikToker @sadlibraryghost posted an edit set to the audio that eventually drew more than 64,000 views, and in mid-November the clip was reposted to the subreddits r/196 and r/PrehistoricMemes, where it collected around 700 and 240 upvotes respectively234.

Momentum shifted in spring 2023. On April 18th, 2023, Twitter user @catwheezie set the audio to a run of cat photos and gathered over 5,800 likes in a month, while an Instagram post three days later from the anthropodarchives page applied it to bugs and cleared 90,000 likes5. The biggest single edit came on May 15th, 2023, when @jims_urbex paired the countdown with urban-exploration photographs and crossed 1.9 million views in a week6. A week later, on May 22nd, @rmoney2_2 posted a version that reached over 730,000 views in two days7.

By mid-2023 the audio was a standard TikTok sound tag, used across pet accounts, music pages and meme accounts such as @discord, @two.green.floofs, @austintylerjones and @planetbustermusic, each matching their own visual theme to the ten nonsense names8.

Timeline

2022-09-17

@epic.mac posts the original Top 10 Goobie Woobies video on TikTok, listing ten invented names over images of random creatures and objects.

2022-10-14

TikToker @sadlibraryghost posts an early edit using the audio, which later surpasses 64,000 views.

2022-11-18

The @sadlibraryghost edit is reposted to r/196, drawing over 700 upvotes.

2022-11-19

A version is reposted to r/PrehistoricMemes, collecting over 240 upvotes.

2023-04-18

Twitter user @catwheezie sets the audio to cat photos, gaining more than 5,800 likes.

2023-04-21

Instagram page anthropodarchives applies the audio to bugs, clearing 90,000 likes in a month.

2023-05-15

TikToker @jims_urbex posts an urban-exploration version that reaches 1.9 million views within a week.

2023-05-22

TikToker @rmoney2_2 posts a version that gathers over 730,000 views in two days.

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