Nuked The song never broke as big as’old town road’ or’$ the box’. absofacto’s song has been a fixture on TikTok for years.
Jonathan visger, who records under the absofacto name, got some alarming news from his followers last weekend. visger started getting messages from people that were survivors of childhood sexual abuse.
The videos show young users making direct eye contact with the viewer. They were about an unsettling meme that had grown up around visger’s song. For longtime fans, it was jarring to see it soundtracked by a song they loved.
‘this is uncharted territory for me,’ says visger. The trend is similar to those who had been affected by the trend.
Musicians have been using TikTok to reach a new audience. This is an ugly reminder of how little control there is over how a song is used.
Users who register likes on a lot of’dissolve’ memes are likely to see more of them. The controversy around the videos may have only promoted them more.
visger’s first response was a TikTok post, calling on fans to take back the song and beat back the’- gross daddy POV trend’. The post brought in half a million likes, and launched a wave of countermemes under the same audio tag, a slowed down version of dissolve’s familiar hook.
Many of the users behind the original daddy-daughter meme have gotten the message. Many have taken down their posts, sometimes posting apologies alongside them.
visger is a popular artist on TikTok. He’ll dedicate his account to spreading awareness about child sexual abuse.
