Texan TikToker goes viral after first time trying boba bubble tea ends in disaster TikTok: John Michael RaceWhen Texas-based TikToker John Michael Race decided to film his first encounter with boba \u2013 or, as he calls it, \u201cbawbuh\u201d \u2013 he probably didn\u2019t expect to become a viral hit. On 30 April, Race, under the TikTok handle \u2018johnmichaelsayshi\u2019, excitedly shared his first ever boba tea with his viewers. \u201cI think they\u2019re meant to dissolve,\u201d he said, awkwardly shaking the boba balls in his drink. This was his first mistake. Unfortunately, what John didn\u2019t anticipate was a rogue boba ball coming back with a vengeance. As he started to choke, a fountain of boba tea sprayed his car. \u201cOh my God, I choked on something!\u201d he screamed. \u201cMy car!\u201d With the TikTok amassing 5.5 million views overnight, users seemed enchanted by the sheer chaos of the video. As well as pointing out Race\u2019s unique pronunciation of boba (which he refers to as \u201cbawbuhs\u201d), TikTokers couldn\u2019t get over how John was surprised that he choked. In one comment that got 116k likes, TikTok user Arianna Stemp quipped: \u201cI choked on something! Like it\u2019s a mystery.\u201d However, Race\u2019s boba-related impact wasn\u2019t limited to TikTok. The video quickly spread to Twitter, where it amassed over 3 million views and even caught the attention of Glee star, Jane Lynch. Of course, with Twitter being Twitter, it wasn\u2019t long before John found himself being turned into a meme, with Twitter users turning his experience into a dramatic musical remix and even editing the video in time to Britney Spears\u2019 \u2018Gimme More\u2019 music video. https:\/\/twitter.com\/joethehack\/status\/1388293170681716743 It looks like Race has responded to his new-found internet fame with good faith, as he dutifully filmed his second round with boba tea on 1 May. This time, he emerged victorious. Remarking that there was \u201cno mess\u201d this time round, John reminded viewers of a lesson he unfortunately learned the hard way: \u201cchew and swallow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Texan TikToker goes viral after first time trying boba bubble tea ends in disaster TikTok: John Michael RaceWhen Texas-based TikToker John Michael Race decided to film his first encounter with boba \u2013 or, as he calls it, \u201cbawbuh\u201d \u2013 he probably didn\u2019t expect to become a viral hit. On 30 April, Race, under the TikTok […]<\/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-60187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60187","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=60187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}