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=Antoine Dodson / Bed Intruder=

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This meme started as an interview with Antoine Dodson in Huntsville, Alabama. He became an overnight celebrity after giving a passionate interview on TV regarding a late-night bedroom intruder in which he came to the rescue of his sister. This interview appeared on YouTube and became viral due to its humour. It was later taken down by YouTube due to copyright laws. However a user recreated this video using auto tune and made it a very popular song that was not only catchy, but also funny. It appeared on iTunes and appeared on billboards hot 100.

The main reason this video became viral is because it was funny and became very catchy due to its song version created by another user. This along with the fact that Antoine was just plain weird and provided a character that we could easily identify created a meme for himself.

This created a phenomenon as users started to upload videos of their own interpretation of this character and their own versions of this song.