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.
