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Last time I checked your Instagram you had around 730,000 followers. I can’t really remember exactly but that’s what my username came to be. I don’t know how I came up with i_got_barzz-I think it’s because I enjoyed rapping with my friends or something. After the video blew up I knew I needed a new username. I was getting thousands and thousands of followers.ĭid you upload your dance video on your account or were you going by a different name? My old username was Majestic Cat Lover. Then I was sitting at my friend’s house and got a notification on Instagram saying, ‘You’ve been tagged in another account.’ And I looked and a guy with 700,000 followers had reposted the video and tagged me. So when you posted that first video, did you promote it on social media? How did it blow up? I had 300 followers and the video had 30 views. And that class wasn’t very helpful anyways. I took a class for about a month then left because there was too much drama. Were you dancing with your friends when you were younger? What motivated you to put your dance videos on Instagram? I guess at church camp a while back in summer of 2014 in front of everybody, and they all seemed to like it, so I was like, ‘You know, why not move this to Instagram and make a video?’ Then I made a video and went from there.Īre you a self-taught dancer? Pretty much. How did you get into dancing? I just posted a video on Instagram just for fun, only thinking about 30 or 40 people would see it, then that video just blew up. Complex hopped on the phone with Horning to get the backstory on how he went viral, meeting Katy Perry, and why he wrote 'ending racism' in his Instagram bio. The video currently sits at over three million views.īackpack Kid's clearly been winning. Roy Purdy, a YouTuber, artist, and video producer, dropped a goofy video of him Milly Rocking in New York and Backpack Kid made a cameo. Still, Backpack Kid is becoming a teen celebrity, and more people from different circles are coming to him to collaborate. In his bio, he says that he can’t dance, and makes an effort to tell his fans that the majority of his dance videos are done in jest. With over 730,000 followers on Instagram, the Lawrenceville, Georgia native has appeared in music videos by Usher-affiliated dance duo Ayo & Teo ( “Rolex”) and Blac Youngsta ( “Hip Hopper”).

Since SNL, Backpack Kid has only gotten bigger.

Kid dancing street background news anchor shocked