Like “yeet” and other standalone internet catchphrases, it’s hard to define what “bing bong” really means. I texted a few of my friends to see how they would translate “bing bong,” and their answers ranged from “liberation” to “that’s what’s up” to “get fucked.” That said, its exact meaning varies depending on whom you ask. What does bing bong mean to you? - “Bing bong” encapsulates a certain New York irreverence - the pride in being emphatically yourself with little regard for what the rest of the world thinks. “Bing bong” isn’t the only Sidetalk soundbite to develop a viral life of its own the audio “ what do you want to tell Joe Byron right now?” has been used as a sound in 39,000 TikTok videos and counting. Just as you grasp what’s going on, the video cuts to something just as nuts. Take, for example, the 5-second clip of a man in a hard hat and sweatpants holding two dogs and urging Ariana Grande to visit Coney Island. The account’s clips have complex layers of weirdness that you could unpeel like an onion - if you had more than a few seconds to process them.
Sidetalk captures a gritty and uninhibited side of the city. Since Sidetalk’s first YouTube video in October 2019, the duo has reliably uploaded minute-long dispatches from the wild sidewalks of New York and amassed over 370,000 YouTube subscribers, a million Instagram followers, and 2.8 million TikTok followers. Created by a pair of NYU film students named Jack Byrne and Trent Simonian, the channel opens each video with the “bing bong” sound of subway doors closing. In a later video, the man, who many on the app began referring to as Bryon, was asked by Sidetalk what he would tell Joe Byron right now, to which he responded: What’s up, baby Take me. The spirit of New York - That utterance is a nod to Sidetalk, the social media channel that calls itself “New York’s one-minute street show,” which recorded and posted the original video. But Gorilla Nems, the Coney Island rapper behind the phrase, has been around a while. Amid the euphoric chaos, a camera captures the berserk fans’ quotes, like “we have de Blasio, we have Cuomo, it was rough shit, but we have the Knicks!” At one point, the video cuts from a joyful fan releasing a guttural squawk to another crowd member who delivers the golden words: “ Bing bong!” “But remember, you do make a difference.But what does it mean? - The catchphrase comes from a viral video shot October 20 outside of Madison Square Garden in which a raucous crowd of screaming fans celebrates the Knicks beating the Celtics in double-overtime. In a video posted earlier this week, McCreary revealed that she had shown TJ the GoFundMe, with the TikTok star telling his fans: “Hey, my people, thank you so much. He is sober, he just needs a little push.”Īs of Friday, the crowdfunding effort for TJ, which was created with a goal of $5,000, had raised more than $35,000. This will help him get inside and a warm place to sleep at night and food to eat. We need to help TJ.”įollowing the supportive response, McCreary created a GoFundMe this week for TJ, where she wrote: “TJ is a homeless man trying to get his life together and off the streets. But which random person also jumps out at you when watching and rewatching these vids For me it's 'Adam Sandler' in the Kai Cenat Little Italy vid. Someone else added: “This breaks my heart. Spidercuz, Byron, and the BingBong guy get a ton of attention and rightfully so. “He should be getting the money for all the views he gets off those videos,” one person commented, while another said: “Why hasn’t he been getting paid!?” In the comments under the video, which has been viewed more than 9.9m times, viewers expressed their shock and outrage that one of their beloved TikTok “creators” was not making money off the widespread usage of his sounds. The clip concluded with McCreary encouraging her followers to “help TJ” before explaining that she would be making a GoFundMe for the New Yorker.
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