2014 Pop Song Gets Dragged on Social Media

What’s the meaning of the Geronimo TikTok meme? People are claiming the 2014 pop song is a slur, and TikTok customers are even censoring the phrase.

The phrase “Geronimo” has change into a slur on TikTok — however just for laughs, it sounds as if, now not on account of anything else in regards to the phrase’s that means. (FYI, Geronimo was a 19th-century Bedonkohe Apache chief whose title changed into a struggle cry for World War II paratroopers.)

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“Guys, please don’t say ‘Geronimo,’” one user wrote. “It’s in reality a slur in opposition to the white neighborhood.” 

And as increasingly TikTok users submit videos of themselves censoring the phrase “Geronimo” within the 2014 song of the same title, the Australian pop band Sheppard is getting a dubious go back to the spotlight.

“Geronimo” was a hit for Sheppard.

Released in February 2014, “Geronimo” was an enormous hit within the band’s native Australia, hitting No. 1 on the ARIA Charts and going platinum 5 instances over. The observe additionally helped Sheppard win the 2014 ARIA Award for Best Group.

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Stateside, on the other hand, Sheppard used to be sort of a one-hit wonder: It peaked at No. 53 on the Billboard Hot 100, and the entire band’s other tracks have failed to chart.

Now the song is getting dragged on YouTube.

YouTube commenters have mocked the “Geronimo” music video in recent weeks — saying, for example, that the observe is “the whitest song to ever exist,” that it “appears like granola,” that it “makes [the commenter] wish to dedicate conflict crimes,” that it “sounds just like the keto vitamin” and that “that is what unseasoned chicken feels like.”

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Another commenter, in the meantime, identified the inanity of the “Geronimo” meme. “There is actually not anything to chortle about, but TikTok has by hook or by crook made a technique to make this a meme,” that individual wrote.

People are stunned to find out the song isn’t a few mouse.

Some social media customers, meanwhile, are simply now understanding that the song isn’t related to the preferred youngsters’s ebook sequence about mouse journalist Geronimo Stilton.

“I all the time thought this song was concerning the Geronimo Stilton ebook collection concerning the rat who went on adventures LOL,” one YouTube consumer wrote.

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And on TikTok, a consumer exclaimed, “Oh my god, Geronimo is a real word. I actually idea they had been talking in regards to the rat books that the weird kids learn, a.okay.a. me. OMG OMG I thought this song was a few rat.”

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The song has any other claim to infamy: a NXIVM promotional video.

“Geronimo” additionally made headlines in November 2020, when an episode of the Starz docuseries Seduced showed that NXIVM — the same sex cult that inspired the HBO docuseries The Vow— used the song in a promotional video. 

“We haven’t and would by no means have allowed our tune to be featured via NXIVM of their promotional video, and we weren't approached by way of the documentary to have this unauthorized utilization featured in the program,” vocalist George Sheppard stated at the time, consistent with the Daily Mail.

“It goes without pronouncing that the allegations and costs surrounding the NXIVM cult are reprehensible and certainly not would we would like our song associated with such an organization or for it to be implied by the documentary makers that we have got licensed this usage.”

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