If you have been on-line in any respect final week and following the Fortnite/Dragon Ball crossover occasion, the percentages are fairly good you might have come throughout somebody dropping it at an obvious zoomer mispronouncing Goku’s iconic assault. “So we all know the Kameyamama is overpowered,” creator Dagwummy mentioned in his August 18 video. It unfold like wildfire. Pretty quickly everybody from Ninja to Goku’s actual life voice actor had weighed in. Most then shortly moved on. If they hadn’t, they’d have realized they’d been trolled.

“I had noticed that a bunch of other Fortnite creators had been mispronouncing the name,” Dagwummy instructed Kotaku in a cellphone interview. “And so the night before I made that video, I was just thinking, if everyone else is saying it wrong, it would be funny to sort of add on to that both because I knew some people would actually kind of take the bait and there would be some funny comments.” He was proper.

The video ended up nailing that social media candy spot of constructing folks offended about somebody being mistaken in a particularly particular and nerdy sort of method. Dagwummy additionally confessed to by no means having ever watched any of the unique anime.

He mentioned he went with a “Yo Mama” pun as a result of it was one he’d used often previously, and regardless of recording a number of totally different takes with alternative ways of mispronouncing the phrase, ended up sticking with that model. It apparently took him 20-Half-hour to nail the superbly dry and straight-faced intonation.

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If anything, the fact that the pun was so corny and made no sense helped make it that much more believable as a genuine mistake. Anyone familiar with his channel would have heard him pronounce Kamehameha correctly just the previous day, but in the context-destroying world of the internet, it became perfect bait. Especially since there’s already a cultural subtext that young people playing Fortnite have no idea where the branded crossover characters they play as originally came from.

Dagwummy, who has 630K subscribers on YouTube, and close to a million followers on Tiktok, has been making videos for years now, focusing on informational shorts that let people know what’s going on in Fortnite. According to him, the video started blowing up on YouTube shorts and TikTok before reaching a whole new audience on Twitter. “I’m crying why he say kamehameha like that,” the anime account JohnnySpitten wrote later that day in a tweet that garnered over a hundred thousand likes.

While some Dragon Ball fans raged in TikTok duets, others simply tried to add their own dunks. “The cum hey ha mama,” wrote Ninja. “Smh,” responded KSI. Even the English dub voice of Goku, Sean Schemmel, reacted, tweeting, “The ‘Kamiamama’ is Kami’s mama?”

On August 20, Dagwummy released another video explaining how he had successfully trolled millions of people. That video ended up getting even more views than the original. He also kept up the schtick, calling Goku “Gaku” at the very end of the video. “I’m crying this some Aizen level stuff right here mf played tf outta me 😭😭,” responded the JohnnySpitten account.

Others in Dagwummy’s feedback declare to stay unconvinced. For his half, he says he by no means anticipated it to get a lot consideration within the first place. “It wasn’t really, you know, meant to be an engagement forum,” he mentioned. Of course, that didn’t cease him from trolling folks once more with yet another mispronunciation earlier this week.