About
Ghost is a 2014 song from the indie pop/electronica band Mystery Skulls. An animated music video of the song was commissioned to YouTuber MysteryBen27 (Ben Mangum) and quickly gained online notoriety after it’s October 2014 debut.
Origin
Ben Mangum first gained subscribers on YouTube though his 2011 fan animated videos of My Little Pony. Later in 2012, MysteryBen27 uploaded an animated video titled “The Turntable Turnabout (Mystery Skulls – Money)”[1] which featured the artist Mystery Skulls and animated characters from the Phoenix Wright Attorney video games. Mystery Skulls then later contacted channel owner Ben Mangum to produce another animated video for the upcoming song Ghost.[2]
Spread
Mangum uploaded his finished copy of Ghost to his YouTube channel on October 26th, 2014, where it gain over 25K thumbs up and 500K reviews within a week.[3]
Lewis The Skeleton
Lewis is the fictional skeleton character which became popular on deviantART and Tumblr with fanart, cosplay and plushies content being in constant production since the video was first posted on YouTube. Alternatively, people have taken to calling him ‘Bara Skeleton’, which is in reference to his masculine size and shape. As of October 31, 2014, DeviantART host hundreds of original sketches and drawings related to Lewis and his former partners.[4]
Notable Examples
External References
[1]YouTube – The Turntable Turnabout (Mystery Skulls – Money)
[2]Tumblr – How Did The Version of Ghost Come To Be?
[3]YouTube – Mystery Skulls Animated – Ghost
[4]deviantART Search – lewis skeleton
[5]Tumblr – Tag Search ‘mystery skulls ghost’