- Topher went viral after he was featured in a family game TikTok on December 24.
- Creators are making Topher-themed fancams and tagging them "TopherTok."
A boy named Topher went viral last week after he was featured in a video by one of his family members. He's since inspired an entire subgenre of memes and fan edits, and some users are already predicting he's going to be the biggest internet star of 2023.
The TikTok video posted on December 24 by user @allycat.03, who's assumed to be related to the now-iconic Topher, showed him and their family playing a game where they took turns telling the camera which family member they would warn a stranger about if they were being introduced for the first time.
Multiple family members said they would warn about Topher, and when it was Topher's turn to speak, he spoke with a fierce tone and heavy Southern accent. He also did not bother to introduce himself like his other family members did — iconic behavior.
"Y'all already know who I am, my name's Topher," he said into the camera.
Viewers immediately were taken to Topher, who had been featured in prior videos from @allycat.03. People flooded the comment section with messages calling him a "king" and predicting he would blow up. The video from Christmas Eve quickly went viral, garnering over 34 million views and five million likes.
In the week and a half since the video was uploaded, multiple hilarious Topher-dedicated pages that are filled with fancams and punchy edits have popped up. A hashtag dedicated to him called #TopherTok has amassed 41 million cumulative views.
Many of the top Topher-themed clips edit him into a scene from a movie or viral video, where a character or person asks someone to introduce themselves.
One of the most popular fan videos has over two million views and features a scene from "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," in which Lord Voldemort asks Neville Longbottom who he is. Instead of Longbottom's appearance, user @bitch.n.brock cuts in that now-famous clip of Topher.
Some creators have attempted to do their own Topher impressions, although commenters have quickly retorted that "nobody can be like Topher" because his demeanor is unique.
The Topher subgenre has grown so large that it's become self-referential. Many popular videos feature creators discussing "TopherTok" and remarking on how the algorithm has only fed them more and more Topher content.
"I liked one video… ONE GODDAMN VIDEO and the entire fyp has been taken over," one creator wrote in a video.
Russell did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. However, they have uploaded several more videos featuring Topher since the holidays. While none of them have generated as much celebration and fanfare as the original, people are obsessed with watching the antics of this hilarious, loud-mouthed kid.
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