Go Crazy Go Stupid

About

Go Crazy Go Stupid refers to a vine posted by PresidentofUgly[1] in which he yells to the camera “go crazy,” shakes his head, and then yells “go stupid.”

Origin

The original post is no longer available. The earliest repost of the video was uploaded by Twitter user @1runako on May 29th, 2015 (shown below).

 

Spread

The video was reposted numerous times over the next four years. On March 23rd, 2017, FULL HD 1080p MEMES uploaded a Spongebob Squarepants parody to YouTube. The video gained 19,763 views and 268 likes in two years (shown below, left). On May 18th, YouTuber Daniel uploaded an edited parody of the original. The video accumulated 102,444 views and 2,800 likes in two years (shown below, right).

 
 

On September 4th, 2018, That on Glitchyeasteregg uploaded a void parody (shown below, left). The video garnered 115,700 views and 2,300 likes in six months. On September 11th, Dat Boiii uploaded a parody with Travis Scott ‘Astroworld’ parody (shown below, right). The video gained 22,270 views and 470 likes in six months.

 
 

Pacify Revival

On February 22nd, 2019, YouTuber and Gamer CoryxKenshin uploaded a video featuring the game “Pacify.” During the game a small baby runs past in the dark with the audio of “go crazy go stupid” (shown below). The video gained 1.5 million views and 134,000 likes in two weeks.

 

On the same day, Twitter[2] user @dalveeen posted the fragment, with the tweet accumulating over 38,700 retweets and 100,000 likes in three weeks.