Thai teen's TikTok video gets 70m hits

Thai teen Juralak Yanon, or Bam, from Buriram, joined in the numbers challenge on TikTok last Monday. (Photo: Screenshots from Barbiebombam account on TikTok)
Thai teen Juralak Yanon, or Bam, from Buriram, joined in the numbers challenge on TikTok last Monday. (Photo: Screenshots from Barbiebombam account on TikTok)

An entry by a young Thai TikTok user in a song challenge has gone viral, racking up more than 70 million views from users worldwide.

The song challenge involved rapping from 1 to 8.

In Thai, 6-7-8 is ‘Hok Jed Pad’ which sounds like "Ho get back" in English and was accompanied by hip-hop music. 

International users loved the video posted by Buriram 16-year-old Juralak Yanon, known as Bam, and posted videos of themselves singing along to it.

The video gained a huge following and has more than 70 million views. 

Bam posted her video under the user name Barbiebombam_. 

She was extremely surprised that the video went viral, with 54 million views in the first five days.

“I intended the video as a joke, telling lottery numbers, and I practiced only a couple of times before recording it,” she said. “I was so surprised that it gained so much international interest”

Bam likes singing and earlier participated in a song contest on a television show. Six years later the video of her on TV has 400,000 views, compared with the 70 million for her entry on TikTok.

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Vocabulary

  • entry: something that you do, write or make to take part in a competition -
  • lottery: a way of raising money for a government, charity, etc. by selling tickets that have different numbers on them that people have chosen. Numbers are then chosen by chance and the people who have those numbers on their tickets win prizes - สลากกินแบ่ง, ล็อตเตอรี่
  • participate: to take part in something - เข้าร่วม
  • rap (verb): to perform a type of popular music with a fast strong rhythm and words which are spoken fast, not sung -
  • surprised (adj): having the feeling that you get when something unexpected happens - แปลกใจ, งงงัน, ประหลาดใจ, ตกตะลึง
  • viral: (of a video, photo, story, etc.) spread across the internet very quickly (like a virus spreading a disease) as people share it with their friends or the news media reports on it - แพร่กระจายผ่านทางอินเทอร์เน็ตอย่างรวดเร็ว

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