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"Johnny Johnny Yes Papa" redirects here. For the 2018 film, see Johnny Johnny Yes Papa (film).

"Johny Johny Yes Papa" (also called "Johnny Johnny Yes Papa") is an English-language nursery rhyme. The song is about a child, Johny, who is caught by his father to have lied about whether he is "eating sugar". Versions with more than one verse usually continue with variations on this theme.

A 1989 book by the American scholar and professor Jessica Wilson states that it originated in Kenya[3] although anecdotal recollections from India suggest that the rhyme has even earlier origins in a now-defunct Indian newspaper Blitz.[citation needed] According to Vinoth Chandar, the CEO of ChuChu TV, the nursery rhyme is old enough to have been in the public domain, indicating that it is at least 60 years old (as per India's copyright rules). It was also a popular rhyme even when India's older generations were young.

Lyrics

The lyrics to the song are in call and response and typically sung to the tune of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star". The original and most well-known version of the song is:

    Johny, Johny,
    Yes papa?
    Eating sugar?
    No papa.
    Telling lies?
    No papa.
    Open wide.
    Ha ha ha!

Music videos
According to Polygon, it was first published on YouTube as a nursery rhyme in 2009 by the channel Shemrock Nursery Rhymes.[5] However, the song was first featured on YouTube in 2007, where it was used in an Indian commercial.[4] The nursery rhyme has been recreated by many other edutainment YouTube channels targeting young children.[6] As of 29 November 2018, a video containing the song, uploaded by ChuChu TV in 2014, has more than 1.5 billion views, and another video of the song, uploaded to YouTube by Loo Loo Kids in 2016,[1] has more than 1.4 billion views. The two videos are respectively the 47th- and 66th-most-viewed videos on the site, as well as the third- and fourth-most-viewed nursery rhyme videos. A further video containing the song, uploaded by CVS 3D Rhymes in 2017, has over 1.0 billion views. These three videos containing the song are also in the top 50 most-disliked YouTube videos. Another video was listed in 2015 by The Daily Dot as one of eleven "unintentionally disturbing" YouTube videos for children.

Internet meme

The song became an internet meme in August 2018, with one version by Billion Surprise Toys—a company with 16 million subscribers to its YouTube channel—going particularly viral on Twitter.[6][8] This version prominently features Johny and his father doing popular dance moves such as the "Gangnam Style" dance,[6][8] and intertwines the original lyrics with a repeated "doo-doo-doo-da-doo" to the melody of "Baby Shark".[1][8] The various videos by edutainment channels were subsequently described as "terrifying", "disturbing", "nonsensical" and "a godforsaken nightmare".[1][5][6] The song's popularity has been attributed to the Elsagate phenomenon of potentially disturbing or absurd YouTube videos being algorithmically shown to children through the YouTube website and the YouTube Kids app.[1][9] The Verge, Mashable and New York Magazine found "remixes" by Billion Surprise Toys, one featuring an anthropomorphic refrigerator (as the liar), to be particularly absurd even compared to other "Johny Johny Yes Papa" videos.[1][6][9]

Shortly after the song went viral, Billion Surprise Toys began to very aggressively issue DMCA takedown requests for videos and images derived from its own videos published on social media. The move was controversial because of the unclear copyright status of the song itself and American copyright law allowing parodies as a form of fair use as well as the UAE (Billion Surprise Toys' native country[10]) allowing "The reproduction of the work for the purpose of personal, non-profit and non-professional use" under their fair use laws.