About
Deez Nuts is a video remix series containing a clip of Internet personality WelvenDaGreat saying the phrase “deez nuts” into a phone, which is often added as the punchline into a variety of videos on Instagram and Vine.
Origin
On May 20th, 2015, Instagram user WelvenDaGreat[1] posted a video clip of himself speaking to a friend on the phone, in which he tells a joke that “deez nuts” arrived in the mail (shown below). In the first month, the video gained over 58,000 likes.
Spread
On March 24th, 2015, YouTuber Javalicius uploaded an extended version of WelvenDaGreat’s video, garnering upwards of 490,000 views and 290 comments in the next three weeks (shown below).
On April 4th, the Mykleeproduction Instagram[3] feed posted an edited clip from the children’s television series Blue’s Clues with the “deez nuts” video added at the end (shown below).
On April 11th, Viner Khadi Don posted a scene from the 2002 superhero film Spider-Man with the “deez nuts” clip dubbed over the original audio (shown below, left). The same day, the Co Vines YouTube channel uploaded a compilation of notable “deez nuts” Vine remixes, accumulating more than 126,000 views and 70 comments in 48 hours (shown below, right).