We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. At that point, I make them change the video. So I end up just telling them to watch Arthur or whatever instead, and go back to my Instagram stalking. They both laugh about it and Johny scams Papa several more times. Johny wins in the end.

We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. Have you been eating sugar and telling lies? While nearly all other iterations of this particular version have been scrubbed from the web, you can enjoy a fun remix of the song itself, complete with the meme-starting melody and vocals, here:. All this weirdness has yielded a deeply unusual meme that has spread across the internet in several directions, reaching both the mainstream internet and its outer, more subversive edges.

The nightmarish nursery rhyme went viral over the past week, drawing hundreds of thousands of new people into its lore. In the most shared version, a child with an absurdly large head sneaks out of bed to gorge on sugar cubes when his father — known only as "Papa" — sternly calls out "Johny" and breaks into a Gangnam Style -type dance. When Johny denies eating sugar, Papa asks if he's "telling lies" while emphatically doing the wave. Caught in the lie, Johny belts out in deranged laughter and lifts his hands, spinning around like he's performing some sort of playful demonic possession. Since that tweet, Johny, Papa, and their fixation on sugar inspired memes about their strange storyline.

The song is about a child, Johny , who is caught by his father eating sugar. Versions of this song comprising more than one verse usually continue with variations on this theme. A book by the American scholar and professor Jessica Wilson states that the nursery rhyme originated in Kenya. The lyrics to the song are in a call and response format, and typically sung to the tune of " Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star ".