Butters may be gullible and constantly bullied, but at least he’s famous on TikTok now.
The character who is a mainstay of the adult series South ParkShe gets the hero edit on TikTok. Over the past few months, fans have been making catchy videos highlighting their favorite Butters moments, much to the delight of many. At the time of publication, its hashtag has has been viewed more than 1.2 billion timeswith the top videos becoming as many as 4.9 million views.
The idolization of the character is accompanied by a more general resurgence of interest South Park Spread on TikTok. The animated show is a long-running raunchy comedy created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone. It debuted in 1997 and is currently airing its 26th season. The series follows the antics of four schoolboys in a Colorado town. It is best known for its often obnoxious and irreverent sense of humor
Butters isn’t technically a member of the official cast of four main characters, but he’s a mainstay of the series and regularly has major roles in episodes. As a character, he tends to play the role of the good two-shoe and he has a rather docile and gullible nature. This means that he is often the target of pranks and verbal abuse from other characters on the show, and this has endeared him to fans.
In the TikTok below, we see moments of Carter and Butters spending time together while an accelerated, pitched version of Corinne Bailey Rae’s “Put Your Records On” plays in the background.
It is important to note that this is the case South Park We’re speaking here, so some of the clips use a wide range of explicit and derogatory language, including racial slurs and sexually explicit language. (The most popular clip on TikTok contains such language, so we didn’t include it here.)
Another part of the series is that Butters lives in constant fear of his parents who abuse him and often ground him. So some of the edits put together likable clips of Butters crying, like the one below.
While Butters is often the one who gets teased by the friends group, he does have his moments when he lashes out. People picked moments when he’s particularly cold and edited them into heavy trap beats with dramatic cuts between clips to build hype throughout the video.
Other hyped videos highlight the moments when Butter takes on his alter ego, Professor Chaos.
Unlike many media trends that can go in and out of fashion, South Park never really left Cultural relevance ebbs and flows as the show has aired continuously since 1997. Similarly, Butters has long been a silent star of TikTok. His voice has been behind TikTok trends like the “It’s okay if you’re gay, Butters, I don’t care“sound and”Kill John LennonSounds. Still, in recent months, Butters trends have catapulted the show to a new level of notoriety, in what has become one of the most popular apps in the world.
