Chipi Chipi Chapa Chapa / "Dubidubidu"

About

Chipi Chipi Chapa Chapa is a memorable chorus from the song "Dubidubidu" by Christell, which achieved meme popularity online in late 2023 after a Boykisser animation using it went viral. In December 2023, the chorus achieved viral popularity on TikTok as it was combined with videos of animals dancing.

Origin

On September 23rd, 2010, Chilean child singer Christell uploaded her song "Dubidubidu", originally recorded in 2003, to YouTube.^[1] The song received over 372,000 views as of June 28th, 2018, and over 2.8 million views as of July 8th, 2023, but was made private from YouTube some time in the second half of 2023. A recording of Christell performing the live song during an episode of Chilean television program Rojo was uploaded to YouTube^[2] (shown below, left). On May 7th, 2020, YouTube^[3] user Fleeting Hell posted a song audio to YouTube, with the upload garnering over 2.1 million views in three years (shown below, right).

Chipi chipi chapa chapa
Dubi dubi daba daba
Mágico mi dubi dubi
Boom boom boom boom boom!

On October 27th, 2023, animator @Kuowonn posted a 10-second-long Boykisser animation that used the song, with the video (shown below) gaining over 208,000 views, 1,400 reposts and 6,200 likes on X^[4] / Twitter in two months.

Finishing my own BoyKisser Animation#furry pic.twitter.com/O4ZTYNdMEb

— Kuowon (@Kuowonn) October 27, 2023

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On October 27th, TikTok^[5] user @awaken_fox reuploaded the animation. The post accumulated over 1.8 million views and 176,000 likes on the platform in two months. On November 6th, 2023, YouTube^[6] user [Rus]Boy_Kisser<3 posted the video. The upload gained over 307,000 views in one month.

Starting in mid-November 2023, the video inspired edits, memes and re-animations on TikTok and other platforms. For example, on November 10th, 2023, TikTok^[7] user @evelyngodofass posted a recording of the animation being set as a desktop wallpaper that received over 982,000 views and 125,000 likes in one month (shown below, left). On November 11th, 2023, TikTok^[8] user @idonotsmoke2938 posted a video of a plush rat dancing to the song captioned, "do you ever sit and then like: chipi chipi chapa chapa luvi luvi lava lava." The post (shown below, right) gained over 2.1 million views and 247,000 likes in one month.

On November 13th, 2023, @Kuowonn posted the second Boykisser animation based on the song, with the video gaining over 131,000 vies, 1,100 reposts and 5,500 likes on X^[9] in one month.

On November 14th, animator Fazbears Times posted the earliest found re-animation of the video, a Foxy version, to their Telegram^[10] channel, later posting it to YouTube^[11] as a part of a meme compilation (shown below).

The format saw further development in early December 2023 as the song was combined with videos of animals. Notably, on December 7th, 2023, TikTok^[12] user @mel0yyyy_02 posted a video which combined the song with a looped video of a cat moving its head, which received over 15.7 million views and 2.2 million likes in four days (shown below).

Various Examples

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