Bing Bong TikTok trend explained: NYC subway jingle goes viral YouTube: Sidetalk \/ TikTokIf you\u2019ve been to New York City, you\u2019ll know the \u201cBing Bong\u201d noise of the NYC Subway doors. That exact sound is going viral on TikTok thanks to Instagram stars \u201cSidetalk\u201d, whose one-minute videos are providing hilarious audio for people to act out to. TikTok has been overrun with one two-note sound over the last month, a simple \u201cBing Bong\u201d. It\u2019s just a bell \u2014 familiar to New Yorkers from their subway system \u2014 but now it\u2019s all over the platform. Why? Well, it\u2019s thanks to \u201cSidetalk\u201c, a NYC street show created by Jack Byrne and Trent Simonian. While they have dozens of different one-minute clips of the city that never sleeps, they are all unified by the same \u201cBing Bong\u201d jingle at the start. It\u2019s now inescapable on TikTok, with the \u201cBing Bong\u201d trend going viral on the platform. Here\u2019s why you\u2019re hearing it, and why the NYC subway jingle has gone global. Bing Bong TikTok trend original video There\u2019s not just one original video for the Bing Bong TikTok trend, although there\u2019s a collection of them floating around the platform \u2014 all from various Sidetalk snippets. The most popular of them all is the \u201cJoe Byron\u201d clip from Sidetalk\u2019s \u201cConey Island Ski Club\u201d video. The 55-second upload has more than 5 million views on YouTube \u2014 making it their most popular video by far. It\u2019s been used on TikTok thanks to a clip from \u2018yvngwxrld\u2018, with over 95,000 videos using the \u201coriginal sound\u201d at the time of publishing. There\u2019s also a selection of clips people can use for audio on Sidetalk\u2019s TikTok directly. \u201cJoe Byron\u201d (Joe Biden) gets involved in Bing Bong TikTok trend Everyone is jumping on board the Bing Bong trend, from small content creators to famous celebrities \u2014 and even the man himself Joe Byron (aka the President of the United States, Joe Biden). Biden did a TikTok with the Jonas Brothers, with their own mashup on the audio tweaking the start before getting to the iconic \u201ctake me out for dinner\u201d line. Lil Nas X also did the rounds at some of the end-of-year shows, getting a host of mainstream celebrities to lip-sync the iconic audio. For Sidetalk, their videos going viral on TikTok has boosted their social reach massively. They\u2019ve gone from a few hundred thousand TikTok followers to over 3.5 million in less than a month, and they\u2019ve experienced a similar boom on YouTube and Instagram. Keep an eye out for more of their iconic NYC snippets on TikTok \u2014 because if you hear that \u201cBing Bong\u201d, you know exactly where it\u2019s from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bing Bong TikTok trend explained: NYC subway jingle goes viral YouTube: Sidetalk \/ TikTokIf you\u2019ve been to New York City, you\u2019ll know the \u201cBing Bong\u201d noise of the NYC Subway doors. That exact sound is going viral on TikTok thanks to Instagram stars \u201cSidetalk\u201d, whose one-minute videos are providing hilarious audio for people to act […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}